with the greatest solidity, and contains many apartments that have been closed with 
stone doors, and lighted by apertures worked in the masonry; they are connected 
by a staircase, which extends to the top of the building, and also to many chambers 
in the foundation. The gates of the entrance, probably of metal, must have been 
of enormous height and exceedingly heavy; they seem to have been hung in the 
usual manner upon pommels, which turned in sockets. Beneath the interior are enor¬ 
mous substructions, which Colonel Vyse entered by a hole from an Arab house; they 
were full of dirt and filth, but they had been built with great solidity, and had 
been adorned with highly finished sculptures. 
Midway, between the propylon and the adytum at the extremity, the noble pronaos 
rises like a separate temple; and, surrounding the whole, is seen the lofty wall of 
circuit, built by Alexander I., which rendered every part of the Temple inaccessible, 
except through the grand pylon. 
Wilkinson’s Thebes. Colonel Yyse. 
GATEWAY AT DENDERA. 
This portico or gateway is one of the entrances through a brick inclosure which 
surrounds the sacred Temple of Dendera. It is probably, like the Temple itself, of 
the Roman period of Egyptian art. It is in so perfect a state of preservation, that 
the winged sphere and other sculptured details upon it are as sharp as on the day 
they were cut, and on some parts the colouring where they were painted is still 
vivid. On the plinth of the cornice, Mr. Roberts says, there is a Greek inscription, 
in part well preserved, which he had not time to copy, and which, lie thinks, has 
escaped the notice of other travellers. 
The inclosure of crude brick is about two hundred and forty paces square, having 
two entrances, one at the pylon of Isis, the other at that before the great Temple. 
At the other gate, which leads to the inclosure, and which is very similar to that 
which is here represented, though not so much buried in the ruins of the wall, there 
are marks worn by the polishing of the metal heads of their weapons, by the guards 
who kept the entrance to the Temple. 
Roberts’s Journal. 
