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No- Amon. Thebes. Portico of the Great Temple at Karnak
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No- Amon. Thebes. Portico of the Great Temple at Karnak
Drawn by C. Stanfield, from a Sketch made on the spot by Major Felix.
engraved by E. Finden
from "Landscape Illustrations of the Bible, Consisting of Views of the Most Remarkable Places Mentioned in the Old and New Testaments" by Thomas Hartwell Horne, William Finden, Edward Francis Finden · 1836
Publisher London : John Murray : Sold also by Charles Tilt
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..No, or No- Amon, or Amon of No (Jer. xlvi. 25. marginal reading), was the metropolis of Upper Egypt, by the Greek geographers termed Thebes, a city eminently distinguished for the worship of Jupiter, who by the Egyptians was called Amon or Amnion; hence the city received the appellation of Diospolis or the city of Jupiter. The grandeur of ancient Thebes must now be traced in the four small towns or hamlets of Luxor, Karnak, Medinet-Abou, and Gournou. Karnak is regarded by the most accurate modern travelers as the principal site of Diospolis; and the Egyptians seem to have called forth all the resources of wealth, and all the efforts of art, to render it worthy of their supreme divinity...."
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23 x 15 cm |
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