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Title: A history of art in ancient Egypt
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914 Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901 Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918
Subjects: Art -- Egypt History Egypt -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ed to penetrate into the sanctuary for thepurpose of bringing forth the emblem or statue of the god fromthe tabernacle or other receptacle in which it was kept. Thisemblem or figure was placed either in a sacred boat or in one ofthose portable wooden tabernacles in which it was carried roundthe sacred inclosure to various resting places or altars. Thecrowd of priests and others who had been initiated but were of ^ Descriptio7i de FEgypte^ Aniiquifcs. vol. i. pi. 5.- Description de /Egypte, vol. iii. 55. 352 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. inferior rank awaited the appearance of the deity in the hypostylehall, in which the cortege was marshalled before emerging intothe courts. The second division of the temple, for Strabo, was the sanc-tuary, or (TriKos. In this Temple of Khons it was a rectangularchamber, separated by a wide corridor running round its four sidesfrom two smaller chambers, which filled the spaces between thecorridor and the external walls. In this hall fragments of a
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Fig. 209—The ban, ov sacred boat; from the temple of Elephantine. granite pedestal have been discovered, upon which either the danor sacred boat, which is so often figured upon the bas-reliefs(Fig. 209), or some other receptacle containing the peculiaremblem of the local divinity, must have been placed. Strabowas no doubt correct in saying that the ai-jKos differed froni the cellaof the Greek temple in that it contained no statue of the divinity,but nevertheless it must have had something to distinguish itfrom the less sacred parts of the building. This something was akind of little chapel, tabernacle, or shrine, closed by a folding The Temple under the New Empire. 353 door, and containing either an emblem or a statue of the divinity,before which prayers w^ere recited and religious ceremonies per-formed on certain stated days. Sometimes this shrine was nomore than an inclosed niche in the wall, sometimes it was a littleedifice set up in the middle of the sanctuary. In those cases in

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