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 :54 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. frreat sanctuary in order that he might see the god who resides in Ha-benben, face to face. Standing alone, he ch'ew the bolt, and swung open the folding doors ; he looked upon the face of his father Ra in Ha-benben, upon the boat Mad, of Ra, and the boat Seket, of Shou ; then he closed the doors, he set sealing clay upon them and impressed it with the royal signet." ^ From the description of Strabo we should guess that the Egyptian temple ended with the sanctuary. Such was not the Fig. 2IO. — Portable tabernacle of painted wood, 19th dynasty. In the Turin Museum. case however. Like most of the Greek temples, the Egyptian temple had its further chambers which served nearly the same purposes as the oTriaOcFjo/jiot of the Greeks. Thus in the Temple of Khons, the sanctuary opens, at the rear, into a second hypostyle hall which is smaller than the first and has its roof supported ^ Translated by Maspero, Histoire Ancienue, p. 385. The wliole inscription has been tfcinslated into English by the Rev. T. C. Cook, and published in vol. ii. of Jiecords of the Past. — Ed.