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Identifier: struggleofnation00maspuoft (find matches)
Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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time and sceneof those far-off battles. The indistinct light in which it is seen helps theillusion, and we almost forget that it is a picture we are beholding, andnot the action itself as it took place some three thousand years ago. A smallspeos, situated at some hundred feet further north, is decorated with standingcolossi of smaller size, four of which represent Eamses, and two of themhis wife, Isit Nofritari.^ This speos possesses neither peristyle nor crypt,and the chapels are placed at the two extremities of the transverse passage,instead of being in a parallel line with the sanctuary; on the other hand, • Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph taken by Insinger in 1881 ; cf. Champolliost, Monumentsde VEgijpte el dc la Nubie, pi. xi., and Roselwni, Mon. Storici, pi. l.xxix. Gau, Monuments de la Nuhic, pis. o4-r)C; Champolhon, Mon. de VUgypte, etc., vol. i. pp. 13-55,and plB. v.-ix., xxxvii. lis; Roskllin-i, Mon. Storici, vol. iii. pt. 2, pp. KJa-lTO; Lepsils, Denkm,iii. 192, IXi.
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RAMSES II. STRIKES A GROCP OP PRISONERS. 410 THE REACTION AGAINST EGYPT. the hypostyle hall rests on six pillars with Hathor-headed capitals of fineproportions. A third excavated grotto of modest <limensions served as anaccessory chamber to tiie tvvo others.^ An inexhaustible stream of yellow sandpoured over the great temple from the summit of the cliff, and partially coveredit every year. No sooner were the efforts to remove it relaxed, tlian it spreads

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  • bookyear:1896
  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Maspero__G___Gaston___1846_1916
  • booksubject:History__Ancient
  • booksubject:Egypt____History
  • booksubject:Syria____History_and_antiquities
  • booksubject:Assyria____History_and_antiquities
  • bookpublisher:London___S_P_C_K_
  • bookcontributor:Robarts___University_of_Toronto
  • booksponsor:MSN
  • bookleafnumber:436
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