TEMPLE OF ISIS, ON THE ROOF OF THE GREAT TEMPLE 
OF DENDERA. 
Tins beautiful little hypiethral building, which is set like a gem on the roof of the 
great structure, seems altogether to have escaped the notice of many travellers, as it 
is not mentioned in their works on Egypt: amidst the splendour and magnitude of the 
great Temple, its beauty may have been overlooked. It is raised on the south-east 
angle, and immediately over the adytum, or sanctuary, of the Temple of Dendera: 
and bears some resemblance to the Temple called the Bed of Pharaoh at Plate. It 
is small, but elegant in form, only twenty-two feet square on the plan, and eighteen 
feet high. Within it is nearly choked up with rubbish. 
Its entablature is supported by twelve columns, four appearing on each side; their 
capitals are the heads of Isis, bearing the pronaos in miniature. Each column is four 
feet ten inches in circumference, and except a doorway on two opposite sides, inclosed 
by intercolumniated screens. In every part, within and without, the surface of this 
beautiful little building is covered with elaborate carving, so delicately and exquisitely 
wrought that it will bear the closest inspection. To what worship or mystery it was 
appropriated is now uncertain, though it is called a Temple of Isis. The sand around 
presents an arid appearance, covering the ancient and populous city, which once flourished 
amidst scenes of fertility; and desolation now rests on the ruins of Tentyra. 
Roberts's Journal. 
