There are two polygonal columns resembling those at Beni-Hassan in the small speos at Beit-el-Wali (Fig.
There is an equally small speos in Egypt which dates from the same period; it is the grotto at Beni-Hassan, which, ever since antique times, has been known as the Speos Artemidos.
Longitudinal section of the speos at Beit-el-Wali; from Prisse.
In the execution of such works they must have arrived at a degree of practised skill which made it as easy for them to cut a speos like the great temple at Ipsamboul, as to build one of the same size.
Through this the innermost parts of the speosare reached; they consist of three small chambers, those on the left and right being very small indeed, while that in the centre, the adytum, is about 13 feet by 23.
The small speos of Hathor, about a hundred paces to the northward, is of smaller dimensions.
C); the Speos of Anubis (D); and the excavated niches of the northern colonnade.
Several exhausted or abandoned quarries have been transformed into votive chapels; as, for instance, the Speos Artemidos, which was consecrated by Hatshepsut, Thothmes III.
The Speos Artemidos is approached by a pillared portico, but contains only a square chamber with a niche at the end for the statue of the goddess Pakhet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "speos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
