[345] This base contained a crypt, no doubt for the sake of economising the material. There seems to have been no means of access to it, either from without or within.
[346] Our plan, etc. shows the temple as it must have left the hands of the architect, according to the authors of the Description de l'Égypte. Jomard (pl. 35, Fig. 1) has imported a small chamber into his plan, placing it behind the large hall as a sort of opisthodomos; but he bids us remark that it was constructed of different materials, and in a different bond, from the rest of the temple. It showed no trace of the sculptured decoration which covered all the rest of the temple. This chamber was therefore a later addition, and one only obtained at the expense of the continuous portico, the back part of which was enclosed with a wall in which the columns became engaged. According to Jomard, this alteration dates from the Roman period, but however that may be, in our examination of the temple we may disregard an addition which appears to have been so awkwardly managed.
[347] In the Description de l'Égypte it is called The Northern Temple (see vol. i. pl. 38, Figs. 2 and 3). The only difference noted by Jomard was in the ornamentation of the capitals.
[348] Lepsius Denkmæler, part i. pl. 113.
[349] Description, Antiquités, vol. i. pl. 71, Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4; letterpress, vol. i. ch. vi. This temple is 50 feet long, 31 wide, and 15 feet 8 inches high.
[350] See Lepsius for plans of these buildings; Denkmæler, part i. plates 125, 127, and 128.
[351] Denkmæler, part i. pl. 100.
[352] The internal measurements of this chamber were 26 feet by 33. Lepsius gives it four columns, but at present there are only the remains of one to be found. Almost the same arrangements are to be found in the Temple of Sedeinga. (Lepsius, Denkmæler, part i. pl. 115.)
[353] See, for Gebel Silsilis, Lepsius, Denkmæler, part i. pl. 102.
[354] Description de l'Égypte, Antiquités, vol. iv. pl. 65, Fig. 1. The French draughtsmen thought this building was a disused quarry, and give nothing but a picturesque view of the façade.