Wilkinson, John Gardner: Topographie of Thebes, and general view of Egypt: being a short account of the principal objects worthy of notice in the valley of the Nile, to the second cataracte and Wadi Samneh, with the Fyoom, Oases and eastern desert, from Sooez to Bertenice (London, 1835)

432 TEMPLES IN THE VALLEY. [Chap. VII.

by Physcon or Euergetes IL, the courts in front
having been built at a later period by Ptolemy
Alexander I.; who, with his mother Cleopatra,
added some of the sculptures on the exterior of the
subterranean chamber. The front court is com-
posed of columns united by intercolumnar screens,
and opens by a pylon on a staircase of considerable
length, having on either side a solid balustrade of
masonry: and on the face of the rock to the east of
the inner court, is a tablet of the time of the second
Remeses, who presents an offering to Ra and Lucina.
The temple of Amunoph III. stands about a mile
from these to the eastward, in the same valley, be-
tween two and three miles from the river; and,
from the circumstance of these ruins being but little
known to travellers who visit El Kab, it may not
be amiss to observe, that this building bears about
70° west of south from the ruined town of
Eilethyas, and that the two above-mentioned, lying
close to the left of the road, may be visited on the
way.

This temple was also dedicated to the goddess of
Eilethyas. It consists of a single chamber supported
by four columns, eleven paces by nine, with a paved
platform on three sides, and an open area in front,
eight paces by seventeen, formed by columns, and
intercolumnar screens; to which the pylon, con-
nected with the body of the temple by a double row
of columns, forms the entrance.

The subjects of the interior are mostly offerings