conclusion that they are not earlier than the tenth century before Christ. The 
difficulty lies in chronologically placing the Pharaohs, Suphis, and Cephrenes, in a 
satisfactory order of succession in the confused dynasties of Egypt. There is little 
probability that further discovery will clear up this mystery: but it is interesting 
to know that, though we cannot to a certainty give an accurate date to the lives of 
the founders of these Pyramids, we have been enabled, by the recent discovery of 
the power to read the hieroglyphics, to confirm tradition and history in the accuracy 
of their names. 
Roberts’s Journal. Wilkinson’s Egypt. Wathen’s Arts and Antiquities of Egypt. 
LATERAL VIEW OF THE TEMPLE CALLED THE 
TYPHOALEUM AT DENDERA. 
These ruins stand to the right of the great Temple as the grand portico is approached 
from the Nile; much of it lies buried under the ruins of Arab huts, which from 
ao-e to age have been raised and have crumbled above those of former habitations: 
the ready and costless material of the mud of the Nile making it easier to build 
a new habitation than repair an old one. 
This Temple consists of two outer passage-chambers, with two smaller rooms on 
either side of the outermost, and a central and two lateral adyta, the whole surrounded, 
except the front, by a peristyle of twenty-two columns. Including the colonnades, 
the Temple is about seventy feet wide and eighty feet long. The columns are 
surmounted above the lower capitals with hideous representations of the monster Typhon, 
or the Evil Genius, whence Strabo gave to this Temple the name of Typhonaeum. 
From the base of the columns to the roof is thirty-three feet; and here, as in the 
great Temple, the whole surface is covered with hieroglyphics, and enriched with 
sculptures, sometimes of Typhon, with all his horrors enlarged—short and stunted, 
with wrinkled face and death-like grin; but more frequently the representations are 
of Isis and Idorus, and of women and children in groups, as if the Temple were 
dedicated to maternity. 
Amidst the rubbish and debris of ancient Tentyris no stone could be found that 
did not belong to the Temples, which appear to have once had a wall that inclosed 
the whole of them. All other building material of the domestic structures seems 
to have been of sun-burnt brick, and must have left the gorgeous Temple a striking 
contrast to such miserable habitations. 
Roberts’s Journal. 
