 Many centuries later, when Greeks began to settle in Egypt, they found that the easternmost statue of the Pair had been shattered down to the waist. According to one report, this mutilation was due to the capricious fury of Cambyses, as conqueror...  Eastern Life: Present and Past - Seite 290von Harriet Martineau - 1848Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1875 - 860 Seiten
...farther inland. This palace-temple, once so richly adorned with its sculpture, sphinxes, and columns, is now a mere heap of sandstone — "a little roughness in the plain," says Miss Martincau, " when seen from the heights behind." Many centuries later, when Greeks began... | |
 | 1875 - 632 Seiten
...farther inland. This palace-temple, once so richly adorned with its sculpture, sphinxes, and columns, is now a mere heap of sandstone — ' a little roughness in the plain,' says Miss Martineau, ' when seen from the heights behind.' Many centuries later, when Greeks began... | |
 | 1875 - 630 Seiten
...farther inland. This palace-temple, once so richly adorned with its sculpture, sphinxes, and columns, is now a mere heap of sandstone — 'a little roughness in the plain,' says Miss Martineau, ' when seen from the heights behind.' Many centuries later, when CJrceks began... | |
 | 1875 - 822 Seiten
...farther inland. This palace-temple, once so richly adorned with its sculpture, sphinxes, and columns, is now a mere heap of sandstone — ' a little roughness in the plain,' says Miss Martineau, ' when seen from the heights behind.' Many centuries later, when Greeks began... | |
 | Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 392 Seiten
...attitude, the impresSIXTH READER. sion must have been majestic indeed; inviolable to any but Cambyses. 3. These statues sit now, as I have said, in the midst...roughness in the plain when seen from the heights behind. 4. The sphinxes are at St. Petersburgh, the columns are broken off from their bases, the statues peep... | |
 | 1886 - 476 Seiten
...avenue leading to one of the great palace-temples reared by Amenhotep III. — a palace-temple which is now a mere heap of sandstone, " a little roughness in the plain." The design of the king was, that this grand edifice should be approached by a dromos, or paved way,... | |
 | George Rawlinson, Arthur Gilman - 1892 - 502 Seiten
...avenue leading to one of the great palace-temples reared by Amenhotep III. — a palace-temple which is now a mere heap of sandstone, " a little roughness in the plain." The design of the king was, that this grand edifice should be approached by a dramas, or paved way,... | |
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