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 39: A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. Tig. 226.— Plan of the Ttmple of Gournah. opinion can be formed as to their real purposes. The riQ;ht-hand com- partment is in a very bad state, but enough of it remains to show that its arrangements were quite different from those of its neighbour and much less complex. So far as we can judge, the larger part of it was taken up with a peristylar court or hall seventy-six feet long and forty-six wide. Behind this the site of three rect- angular chambers may be distinguished. Every wall which is still standing bears representations of Rameses II. paying his devotions to the Theban eods. The left compartment is in better preservation than the right, and its arrano-ements are more like those of the central part of the naos. It is not so large, however, and it contains no hypo- style hall. It has six chambers placed in two sets of three, the one set behind the other. Here we find Rameses I., the founder of the dynasty, honoured by his son Seti I. and his grandson Rameses II.