Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt: In Company with Several Divisions of the French Army, During the Campaigns of General Bonaparte in that Country, and Published Under His Immediate Patronage, Band 3T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803 |
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Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, in Company With Several Divisions of the ... Vivant Denon,Arthur Aiken Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2022 |
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Seite 20 - ... is the next place which invites the attention of the scientific tourist. It is worthy of notice chiefly on account of a temple, the portico of which has been pronounced by Denon to be the purest fragment of Egyptian architecture, and one of the most perfect monuments of antiquity. It consists of eight columns with broad capitals, differing from each other in the ornament that they bear ; in one it is the vine, in another the ivy, in a third the palm-leaf. The parts behind the portico are trivial...
Seite 201 - is taken from a temple which appears to have been dedicated to Typhon, whose figure is seen on the de, which is, in fact, only a prolongation of the column. This architectural member, which I have never seen but in the Egyptian column, gives freedom to the capital, prevents it from appearing crushed by the architrave, and produces so good an effect to a person who approaches...
Seite 120 - Whilst lying to for a boat they had sent in, a sudden squall obliged them to come to anchor in the Gulf, in the native country of Bonaparte. He was thought to have been...
Seite 37 - ... besides these were represented various smaller articles, as vases, coffee-pots, ewers with their basons, a teapot and basket. Another chamber was consecrated to agriculture, in which were represented all its various instruments, a sledge similar to those in use at present, a man sowing grain by the side of a canal, from the borders of which the inundation is beginning to retire, a field of corn reaped with a sickle, fields of rice with men watching them. In a fourth chamber was a figure cloathed...
Seite 33 - ... at first displayed no other architectural ornaments than a door in a simple square frame, with a flattened oval in the centre of the upper part, on which are inscribed in hieroglyphics a beetle, the figure of a man with a hawk's head, and beyond the circle, two figures on their knees in the act of adoration. As soon as the...
Seite 77 - ... at the base of one of the principal pillars of the edifice, I discovered foundation stones, on which were sculptured numerous hieroglyphics, as finely executed as those that decorated the outer part of the building. From this circumstance, how great must we suppose the antiquity to be of edifices so decorated! and how many preceding ages of civilization would it require to be able to erect such buildings ! How many ages, again, before these would have fallen into ruins, and served as materials...
Seite 36 - I visited, which have been injured by water trickling down them, all the rest are still in full perfection, and the paintings as fresh as when they were - first executed : the colours of the ceilings, exhibiting yellow figures on a blue ground, are executed with a taste that might decorate our most splendid saloons.
Seite 150 - ... the zeal of superstition has here been opposed to the eagerness of avarice, and the latter has prevailed. After mining through thirteen feet of solid granite, a door three feet three inches square, has been discovered, which is the entrance to the principal chamber. This is a long square, sixteen feet by thirty-two, and eighteen in height. The door is in the angle facing the gallery, corresponding to the door of the Queen's chamber below. When it is said that the tomb is a single piece of granite,...
Seite 35 - Athanasius at Alexandria: the tombs were covered by a lid of the same material, and of an enormous mass, shutting with a groove; but 'neither this precaution, nor these vast blocks of stone, brought from such a distance and at so great an...
Seite 56 - ... constructed for the trials of the initiated. After passing the apartments, adorned in the elegant style that I have just described, we entered long and gloomy galleries, which wind backwards and forwards in numerous angles, and seem to occupy a great extent of ground ; they are melancholy, repulsive, and without any decoration ; but from time to time open into other chambers covered with hieroglyphics, and branch out into narrow paths that lead to deep perpendicular pits, which we descended by...