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Title: The Nile : notes for travellers in Egypt
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934
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Publisher: London : T. Cook
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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confined, consists of a granite rock,the sides of which, having been scarped, have had wallsbuilt on them; it measures 417 yards long and 135 yardswide. The name of this island in Egyptian was ^^S^ 2~©P-aa-leq, Coptic UlX^LK, ?>., the frontier. The monu-ments on this island are numerous and interesting, but theybelong to a comparatively late date, none that have yet beenfound being older than the time of Nectanebus, the last nativeking of Egypt. On the south-west corner are the remainsof the small temple which this king dedicated to Isis.The most important ruins are those of the Temple of Isis,which was begun by Ptolemy II. Philadelphus and Arsinoe,and was added to and completed by the Ptolemies andRoman emperors who came after. On each side of thepath which led to the temple is a corridor: that on the westhas thirty-two pillars and that on the east sixteen; atthe north end of the east corridor is the so-called chapel of.Esculapius, which was built by Ptolemy V. Epiphanes and z 3
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rian of the Buildings on V\c Uhmd ol riiikv. phit,;f. 341 Cleopatra. The towers of the first propylon are nboiit65 feet high, and their southern faces arc ornamented withsculptures representing Ptolemy VII. Philometor triumphingover his enemies. On the east side of the large court, which isentered through the propylon, is a portico with ten columns,and on the west side are the three chambers forming theso-called mammisi, on the walls of which are representa-tions of the birth of Horus. In this courtyard there isa copy of the famous Rosetta Stone inscription, given,unfortunately, without the Greek text. Passing through thesecond propylon, a portico having ten beautifully paintedcapitals is entered, and north of this are three chambers, inthe last of which is the monolith shrine. Round and aboutare several small chambers and passages with secret openings.When Strabo visited the island he saw the hawk which wasworshipped there, and which was said to have been broughtfrom Ethiopia.^ On th

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