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 ;5 Ifa^F^ ooooooooooo OOOOOOOOOOG ooooooooooo □ □ □ □ a f OOGOOOOOQG GO OO0OOOOO We have given neither an elevation nor a section of the temple at Abydos, because neither the one nor the other was to be had. The building was hardly known until Mariette freed it from the debris with which it was en- gulphed. He, too, studied rather as an egyptologist than as an architect, and was content with making known its internal arrangements by a plan. This plan does not appear to be minutely exact. A little farther on we shall have to speak of a peculiarity which exists at Abydos, but which is not hinted at in the adjoining plan ; some of the columns are coupled in the first hypo- style hall. We take this fact from the Description^ where the measurements are given in a fashion which forbids all doubt of their fidelity. QDaDQO naaeBQ
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<//■■ m. WA I i « ^4 i m J -L Fig. 224, — Plan of the Temple at Abydos (from Mariette.)