Wilkinson, John Gardner: The Architecture Of Ancient Egypt: In Which The Columns Are Arranged In Orders, And The Temples Classified; With Remarks On The Early Progress Of Architecture, Etc.; With A Large Volume Of Plates Ilustrative Of The Subject, And Containing The Various Columns And details, From Actual Measurement (Text) (London, 1850)

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whether those in antis were much used then; but
it is certain that, though that form of portico was
more particularly in vogue, during the reigns of the
Ptolemies, it was not a novel introduction; since
rock-temples, and tombs, are found with a similar
portico, in the early times of Osirtasen, Amunoph
III, and other kings; as at Beni Hassan, El Masarah,
the desert,* and other places.f

4th. Temples with porticoes of many columns in
depth, as at Esne,^: Dendera,§ etc.; and many inner
chambers at the back, with screens in the inter-
columniations of the facade.

In this class, the principal parts of the temples
were, 1st, the Naos, containing a central, and two
side adyta|| (sometimes with an isolated sanctuary,
as at Dendera,5f Medeenet Haboo, and other
places); ** the hall of columns, and other adja-
cent chambers; and 2nd, the Portico, or -pronaos,
which was generally broader, and higher than the
naos.ff Before the portico was the paved dromos,
leading to the pylon in front, against which the
crude brick wall of the temenos abutted; as in the
smaller temples, of early times.:^

In temples of this class, the portico was a more
marked feature, than in those of a simpler, and
older, plan ; and as it is frequently found in those of
Ptolemaic, and Roman, date, some have supposed,
that the accession of the Ptolemies led to a change

* Plate i, fig. 40, of Osirei I. (Sethos), in a Valley opposite Edfoo.
t Plate i, figs. 39, 45. % Plate i, fig. 41.

§ Plate i, figs. 37, 38, 42. || Plate i, fig. 43.

IF Plate i, fig. 42. ** Vide supra, p. 79, note 1.

tt Plate i, figs. 37, 42, 43. £ Plate i, fig. 17.