[335] Ibid., p. 312.
[336] Ebers, Ægypten, vol. ii. p. 312.
[337] The plan in the Description de l'Égypte (Antiquités, vol. ii. pl. 4) does not go beyond the back wall of the second court. That of Lepsius goes to the back of the hypostyle hall. (Denkmæler, part i. pl. 92.) Ours is much more comprehensive—it goes three stages farther back; it was communicated to us by M. Brune, who measured the building in 1866.
[338] Here M. Perrot is in error, as may be seen by reference to his own plan. The columns of the central passage of the hypostyle hall are similar in section to those of the two peristyles, except that their bases are flattened laterally in a somewhat unusual fashion.—Ed.
[339] A few of these buildings—that, for instance, on the right of the great lake—seem to have been very peculiar in arrangement, but their remains are in such a state of confusion that it is at present impossible to describe their plans.
[340] Cailliaud, Voyage à Méroé, plates, vol. ii. pl. 9-14. Lepsius, Denkmæler, part i. pl. 116, 117. Hoskins, Travels in Ethiopia, plates 40, 41, and 42. The plan given by Hoskins agrees more with that of Lepsius than with Cailliaud, but it only shows the beginning of the first hypostyle hall and nothing of the second. These divergences are easily understood when it is remembered that nothing but some ten columns of two different types remain in situ, and that the mounds of débris are high and wide. In order to obtain a really trustworthy plan, this accumulation would have to be cleared away over the whole area of the temple. All the plans show a kind of gallery, formed of six columns, in front of the first pylon; it reminds us in some degree of the great corridor at Luxor; by its general form, however, rather than its situation.
[341] Full particulars of the more obscure parts of the temple at Abydos will be found in Mariette's first volume.
[342] Upon the funerary character of the great temple at Abydos, see Ebers, Ægypten, vol. ii. pp. 234, 235.
[343] We may cite as a peripteral temple of the Ptolemaic epoch the building at Edfou, called, in the Description, the Little Temple (Antiquités, vol. i. plates 62-65). It differs from the Pharaonic temples of the same class in having square piers only at the angles, the rest of the portico being supported by columns.
[344] Description de l'Égypte, Antiquités, vol. i. plates 34-38.