Print Specifics:
- Type of print: Wood Engraving or Xylograph - an original German antique print
- Year of printing: not indicated in the print - actual 1878
- Illustrator - Publisher: Carl Warner - Druck und Verlag von Eduard Hallberger.
- Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Light age toning of paper.
- Dimensions: 10 x 14 inches (25 x 36 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image.
- Paper weight: 2-3 (1.
Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin).
- Reverse side: Blank
- Notes: 1.
Green color 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting
background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print.
Original Narrative:
- Sekhet
Statues Near the Temple of Mut, Karnak: The row of stately pylons
south of Karnak show us that the king's palace and the city of Thebes
proper lay to the south of the great Temple of Amon, for they
themselves indicate the route taken by the king when he had occasion to
visit the temple in solemn procession. Amenophis took upon himself the
task of adorning this highway, and he selected the goddess Mut ’ from
the great triad of Karnak, and built a temple to her especially, which
had the form of a horse- shoe bent round a tank of the same form . Next
to this goddess, the cat-headed or lion -headed Sekhet seems to have
enjoyed the highest honours in this sanctuary, which has fallen a prey
to time and violence, so that only a few remains are left. Mariette,
who had the foundations excavated , has proved that no less than 572
statues of the feline wife of Ptah must have stood in its two
fore-courts and along the eastern and western outside walls. These were
all of black granite ; and even to this day a number of these grotesque
monsters stand among the ruins and rubbish of the ancient sacred tank ,
and have a most weird appearance, particularly in the moonlight, when
they look like a troop of witches or spell -bound queens sitting on
their thrones, and they have an ominous aspect of malig nant magic as
they stand up above this ruined and deserted scene.
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