The Nile beyond surrounded an island, where flourished the well-kept sacred grove of Anion.
The Necropolis on the farther side of the river was also well seen from Bent-Anat's balcony.

There stood in long perspective the rows of sphinxes, which led from the landing-place of the festal barges to the gigantic buildings of Amenophis III.

with its colossi--the hugest in Thebes--to the House of Seti, and to the temple of Hatasu.

There lay the long workshops of the embalmers and closely-packed homes of the inhabitants of the City of the Dead.

In the farthest west rose the Libyan mountains with their innumerable graves, and the valley of the kings' tombs took a wide curve behind, concealed by a spur of the hills.
The two women looked in silence towards the west.