This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...offerings to the national divinities. These fragments are actually pieces of some of those repairs and substitutions which were made at the time above stated, which, being in this instance only superficial, had fallen from their places, and were picked up by Mr. James Burton, out of whose collection they were bought by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...offerings to the national divinities. These fragments are actually pieces of some of those repairs and substitutions which were made at the time above stated, which, being in this instance only superficial, had fallen from their places, and were picked up by Mr. James Burton, out of whose collection they were bought by Dr. Lee. The accompanying wood-cuts have been engraved more particularly to explain from which of the two kinds of columns, and from what part of the column, these fragments were derived. It will be evident from the radius given by the portion left of the curve or circumference of the column, that the fragments could not have belonged to the larger column, whose diameter at the place where the figures occur is at least ten feet, so that, if they are derived from any column of this celebrated hall, it must have been from one of the smaller; and this is further corroborated by the fact of the decoration on the larger columns being in that style of sculpture peculiar to the Egyptians, as may be seen by some photographic views of the hall in this collection, and not in basso-relievo proper, as are these fragments. No. 3 is a representation of the whole figure as it occurs on these columns, showing the actual pieces of stone that were inserted into the column at the time of the repairs and obliterations which took place in that particular part of the great temple of Karnak in the reign of Rameses II., B.C. 1150. A contemplation of this relic leads us to the interesting question as to the date of the flight of the Children of Israel, the decision of which, Sir Gardner Wilkinson observes, with becoming deference to other Egyptologists, "I leave to the learned reader, and shall feel great satisfaction when the subject becomes so well understood ...
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