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Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia
Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids Temples Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia Author:Giovanni Battista Belzoni Subtitle: And of a Journey to the Coast of the Red Sea, in Search of the Ancient Berenkč; and Another to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1835 Original Publisher: Remy Subjects: Egypt Nubia Women History / Ancient / Egypt History / Middle East / Egypt Social Science / A... more »rchaeology Social Science / Women's Studies Travel / Middle East / Egypt Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The Egyptians were a primitive nation. They had to form every thing without any model before them to imitate. Yet so fertile was their inventive faculty, that to this day new orders of architecture might be extracted from their ruins. If we observe the Egyptian capitals, do we not see a complication of orders in one mass, which, if divided, would produce numerous hints for new ideas? If the lover of truth will but inspect the various representations of the lotus on the capitals, he will plainly see, that not only the Doric and the Corinthian orders have been extracted from them, but that more might still be formed. There is reason also to believe, that the Ionic order originated in Egypt. The capitals of the columns of Tentyra, those in the small temple of Edfu, and, lastly, the others in the small temple of Isis, in the island of Philoe, sufficiently indicate this. The name of the deity, to which the first and third of these temples are dedicated, seems to strengthen this supposition. We well know, that Isis is the lo of the Greeks, from whom the name of Ionic was no doubt derived; and it is very probable, that he who introduced the order gave it that name, as having been taken from the temple of the goddess. The wonderful sculptures t)f the Egyptians are to be admire...« less