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hieroglyphics likewife. Some are in form of men and 

 beafts ; fome feem to be the figures of inftruments of facri- 

 fice, while others, in a fmaller fize, and lefs diflinel: form, 

 feem to be infcriptions in the current hand of hieroglyphics, 

 of which I fhall fpeak at large afterwards. They are all 

 finifhed with great care. 



The capitals are of one piece, and confift of four huge 

 human heads, placed back to back againft one another, with 

 bat's ears, and an ill-imagined, and worfe-executed, fold of 

 drapery between them. 



Above thefc is a large oblong fquare block, flill larger 

 than the capitals, with four flat fronts, difpofed like pannels, 

 that is, with a kind of fquare border round the edges, while 

 the faces and fronts are filled with hieroglyphics ; as are 

 the walls and cielings of every part of the temple. Between 

 thefe two apartments in the extremities, there are three 

 other apartments, refembling the firft, in every refpecl, only 

 that they are fmaller. 



The whole building is of common white ftone, from 

 the neighbouring mountains, only thofe two in which have 

 been funk the pirns for hanging the outer doors, (for it 

 fcems they had doors even in thofe days) are of granite, or 

 black and blue porphyry. 



The top of the temple is flat, the fpouts to carry off the 

 water are monflrous heads of fphinxes ; the globes with 

 wings, and the two ferpents, with a kind of fliield or breafl- 

 plate between them, are here frequently repeated, fuch as 

 we fee them on the Carthaginian medals. 



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