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Title: Through Bible lands : notes of travel in Egypt, the desert, and Palestine
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893
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Publisher: New York : American Tract Society
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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a goodidea of an Egyptian sanctuary. The great hall hastwenty-four columns, crowned with the heads of Isis andadorned with carvings and hieroglyphics. In the inte-rior there are several chapels and chambers for the king,the priests, the treasury, the priestly vestments, thesacred animals, the preparation for festivals and proces-sions. On the colossal pillars and walls there is a profu-sion of symbolical and astronomical representations, andpictures of the gods, and of serpents, which appear inevery attitude, some walking on human legs, and offering 72. BIBLE LANDS. strange offerings to the deities. On the ceiling of theportico is a picture of the famous Zodiac, whic?i was oncethought to be very ancient, but cannot be older than thereign of Augustus. Outside on the wall is a statue ofthe voluptuous Queen Cleopatra, and her son by JuliusCaesar. The view from the terraced roof extends ovei;Arab and Coptic houses, green fields, the Nile, and thechain of hills beyond towards the Red Sea.
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LUXOR: FROM THE NILE. LUXOR AND THEBES. 73 CHAPTER VIII. LUXOR AND THEBES. The Ancient Splendor of Thebes—The Temple andObelisk of Luxor—A Fantasia—The Temple Ruinsof Karnak—A Forest of Columns—The largestObelisk—Shishaks Victory over Rehoboam—Thebes—The Temple of Koorneh—The Tombs ofthe Kings—The Rameseum—The Temple of Ram-eses III.—The Two Colossi. At Luxor the steamer stops three days, for here isthe culmination of interest. Luxor, Karnak, Thebes, are the three names forwhat was once the one city of Thebes (the HekatompylosThebe of Homer, the Diospolis of the later Greeks, theNo or No-Ammon of the Old Testament), which in thedays of its glory (1600 to 800 b. c.) stretched aboutthirty-three miles on both banks of the Nile. They arenow a vast field of ruins and miserable Arab mud villages.The prediction of Jeremiah and Ezekiel that the city ofNo shall be cut off and rent asunder, has been lit-erally fulfilled. But the ruins which testify to her formersplendor

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