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Enormous pillars, which are twenty-one feet in 

 circumference, sustain a large vestibule. Their 

 capitals, of a single piece, represent a sort of heads 

 or broad faces opposed to each other, and placed 

 ai^on a drapery. They are surmounted by a square, 

 block, whose fronts, which project beyond the 

 figures, have some resemblance to pannels. For 

 the rest, plate XXX. will give a clearer idea than de- 

 scriptions can, of the singular form of these capitals. 



The interior of the edifice is divided into several 

 halls, the walls of which are covered with hiero- 

 glyphics and symbolical figures. The exterior 

 walls are as completely loaded with them, and the 

 whole life of a designer would be scarcely suffi- 

 cient to trace a representation of these. 



I contented myself with having the principal of 

 the figures drawn, of which the ensemble formSj^ 

 without doubt, the history of the building, and of 

 the time when it was erected. They are, for the 

 greatest part, very extraordinary representations,, 

 which are not to be found on any other monu- 

 ments of ancient Egypt, 



You see, plate XXXI. three persons forming part 

 of an Isiac procession. The head of the fijst is 

 crowned with that sort of mitre v»'ith which the 

 Egyptian divinities arc frequently adorned ; you 



observe 



