[355] Lepsius, Denkmæler, part i. pl. 102; Rosellini (vol. iii. pl. 32, Fig. 3) gives a view of the interior of the Silsilis chapel.
[356] Lepsius, Denkmæler, part i. pl. 101.
[357] Lepsius, Denkmæler, part i. pl. 127.
[358] There are also a hemispeos or two of the Ptolemaic period. That, for instance, of which the plans are given in plate 101 of Lepsius's first part, was begun by Ptolemy Euergetes II.
[359] This description has been mainly taken from the plate given by Prisse (Histoire de l'Art Égyptien, vol. i.). There are discrepancies, however, between it and both the inscription of Isambert and the plan of Horeau (Panorama d'Égypte et Nubie), discrepancies which may probably be referred to the bad condition of the structural part of the building. According to Prisse's measurements the dromos, from its commencement to the foot of the first pylon, was about fifty-five yards long, and the rest of the temple, to the back of the niche, was about as much again. The rock-cut part was only about ten yards deep.
[360] The resemblance between Prisse's plan of Gherf-Hossein and Horeau's plan of Wadi-Asseboua is so great as to suggest that one of the two writers may have made a mistake.
[361] There are two polygonal columns resembling those at Beni-Hassan in the small speos at Beit-el-Wali ([Fig. 237]).
[362] For Beit-el-Wali and Gircheh, see plates 13, 30 and 31 in Gau, Antiquités de la Nubie. It seems that the statues, when they were drawn by him, were in a fairly good state.
[363] These words mean Convent of the North. The name is derived from an abandoned Coptic convent which existed among the ruins of the ancient building.
[364] This wide inclined plane agrees better, as it seems to us, with the indications in M. Brune's plan of the actual remains at Dayr-el-Bahari, than the narrow flight of steps given in his restoration; the effect, too, is better, more ample and majestic.