them know what the Lord of hosts hath purposed on Egypt: the princes of Noph 
have seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. Thus saith 
the Lord God: Behold I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, and the land of 
Egypt shall he desolate and waste, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of 
Ethiopia; and the country shall be desolate of that whereof it was full. I will also 
make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. 
Thus saith the Loi’d God, I will desti’oy the idols, and I will cause their images to 
cease out of Noph ; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt.” 
Whether it will ever be permitted that a pure faith and worship shall exist in 
later days in the land which has been thus cursed for more than twenty centuries, 
is yet in the womb of time, and in the inscrutable ordonnances of the Almighty. 
RUINS OF THE TEMPLE OF MEDAMOUT, NEAR THEBES. 
Medamout stands inland, east of the Nile, and has by some antiquaries been supposed 
to mark the site of Maximinianopolis, a Greek bishop’s see under the Lower Empire. 
Little of this Temple remains, except a part of the portico. The stone of which it 
was built was more liable to decay than the materials generally used in the Temples of 
Egypt. 
The style of the architecture has been given to the Ptolemaic period; and on the 
columns may be traced the ovals of Ptolemy Euergetes II., of Lathyrus Auletes, and 
of the Emperor Antoninus Pius. But a block of granite gives the Temple a higher 
antiquity; for it bears the name of Amunoph II., and proves its foundation to have 
been coeval with at least the middle of the fifteenth contury before the Christian era. 
The pylon before the portico bears the name of Tiberius, but the blocks used in 
its construction were taken from an older edifice erected or repaired by Remeses II. 
The ruins of many houses built of crude brick, mark the site of a town, in the 
centre of which this Temple was situated; a wall or inclosure of similar materials 
surrounds the Temple. The remains of a reservoir are near it, and not far distant 
is a small ruin bearing the name of Ptolemy Euergetes I., and traces are found of 
a wall of crude brick which surrounded the town. 
The capitals of the columns are elegant, those in the centre of the portico exhibit 
the form of the expanded lotus; while the outer columns on either side of them 
bear that of the budding lotus: this, which is generally considered an incongruity in 
architecture, is beautiful in effect. 
Wilkinson’s Egypt and Thebes. 
