 | 1810 - 704 страници
...f.in, and the heat was fo great, from furrounding banks keifping ofF the air, that it was irnpoltible to draw the ornaments with accuracy. The top is not...in the centre, as we found when we viewed it from a diihtnce. It is hardly to be doubted, that a llatuo of a deity was origi. ja!ly placed in the cavity... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Egyptian Antiquities - 1832 - 440 страници
...threw down an obelisk at Heliopolis according to the testimony of Abd-allatif. The top of the monolith is not flat, but elevated to a point in the centre, as Lord Valentia and his fellow-travellers found when viewing i}. at a distance. This pyramidal top is... | |
 | George Long - 1832 - 446 страници
...threw down an obelisk at Heliopolis according to the testimony of Abd-allatif. The top of the monolith is not flat, but elevated to a point in the centre, as Lord Valentia and his fellow-travellers found when viewing it at a distance. This pyramidal top is... | |
 | George Long - 1832 - 442 страници
...threw down an obelisk at Heliopolis according to the testimony of Abd-allatif. The top of the monolith is not flat, but elevated to a point in the centre, as Lord Valentia and his fellow-travellers found when viewing it at a distance. This pyramidal top is... | |
 | George Long - 1846 - 450 страници
...threw down an obelisk at Heliopolis according to the testimony of Abd-allatif. The top of the monolith is not flat, but elevated to a point in the centre, as Lord Valentia and his fellow-travellers found when viewingit at a distance. This pyramidal top is also... | |
 | George Valentia - 1994 - 512 страници
...Breadth in front - 12 3 Depth on the outside 1 1 S Breadth of the chamber 8 8 Depth of the chamber 9 3 It stands on a pedestal of the same substance, five...placed facing the NE in the centre of one side of an irregular square, forty-three paces wide by TTMAI. 421 thirty-six ; at present marked only by very... | |
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... on each side, and apparently another in the front over the arch of the doorway. This may have been caused by the earthquakes which have occasionally visited the Delta; and which, at one visitation, threw down an obelisk at Heliopolis according to... 