ABSTRACT
Four days and several temples lay, however, between us and Thebes. The principal temple was rebuilt by the Ptolemies on the site of an ancient one bearing the date of the Pharaohs of an early part of the Third Period. The only piece of this great antiquity remaining is a gateway dedicated to Savak, the Lord of Umboo. The larger temple is dedicated to him and to Aroeris, the brother of Osiris: and there are two entrances, each with the winged globe on its cornice; and there were two adyta, side by side. One curious architectural device of the Egyptians is apparent at a glance, when one stands on the great circuit wall which incloses the whole group of edifices; - their plan of regularly diminishing the size of the inner chambers, so as to give, from the entrance, an appearance of a longer perspective than exists.
