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)

486* TEMPLE OF DENDOOR. [Chap. VII.

panion in battle. His eldest son brings into his
presence a group of prisoners of that nation; and in
the lower compartment is a deputation of Egyptian
chiefs. Beyond this, the conqueror engages in
single combat with one of the enemy's generals, and
slays him with his sword, in the presence of his son
and other Egyptian officers; and the next compart-
ment represents him in his car, in the heat of the
battle, overtaking the leader of the hostile army,
whom he also despatches with his sword. The
enemy then fly in all directions to their fortified
town, which the king advances to besiege. Some
sue for peace; while his son, forcing the gates,
strikes terror into the few who resist. Then tram-
pling on the prostrate foe, Remeses seizes and slays
their chiefs; and several others are brought in
fetters before him by his son.

Such are the principal subjects in the area of this
temple, which, next to Aboo Simbel, is the most in-
teresting monument met with in Nubia.

The temple of Dendoor stands just within the
tropic. It consists of a portico with two columns
in front, two inner chambers, and the adytum; at
the end of which is a tablet, with the figure of a
goddess, apparently Isis. In front of the portico is
a pylon, opening on an area enclosed by a low wall,
and facing towards the river; and behind the temple
is a small grotto excavated in the sandstone rock.
It has the Egyptian cornice over the door, and be-
fore it is an entrance-passage built of stone.