| Across 1. The Muslim call to prayer 4. (a) An Arabic bench. (b) A rectangular tomb of ancient Egyptian origin 7. An Islamic house or mansion 9. Kindly God of the Desert 11. The shape of a cross 12. A large piece of jewelry worn on the chest 14. A very simple hand operated lever used for lifting water to irrigate fields 15. In Egypt specifically the word is used to refer to an ancient tempera painting 17. Muslim place of worship 19. Head of the local priesthood and usually extended by the name of a god 20. The Child God 22. A semi-circular domed recess, most frequently at the east end of a church 23. The raised platform within a Coptic church where the Bishops throne is located 24. Strong man of Egyptology 25. A king's first cartouche name or throne name 28. A framework of rigid design used as a means of supporting usually either a roof or a bridge 31. The top, or capstone of a pyramid 32. Grandmother of the Gods | Down 1. A rectangular block placed on top of a column capital in order to support the architrave 2. Roofed colonnade, often running around the outside of small New Kingdom temples and Graeco-Roman birth houses 3. A concave bracket around the summits of walls or gates (2wds.) 5. A reference to the suns disc which was considered the life force and is closely related to the religious upheaval of Akhenaten 6. place of worship 7. A walled monastery 8. The Sun God 10. A symbol of protection, consisting of an image of a herdsmans roll of papyrus which he used as shelter 13. Tutankhamun's wife 15. Plural for an Egyptian peasant 16. The Astral Goddess 18. A palace, fortress or mansion 21. God of the Spoken Word 24. Ancient cow goddess 25. The Creator 26. An administrative title in the early Islamic period 27. The main area of a church, usually flanked by aisles 29. Amun animal 30. God of chaos and confusion |