Brugsch, Heinrich: Egypt under the pharaohs: a history derived entirely from the monuments (London, 1891)

DiNi xviii. THE STATUES AT KAENAK 181

Dynasty, and some thirty princes of the Thirteenth, as
his illustrious ancestors.

The great wings of the temple have suffered much
both from time and man. But the lonely ruins yet enable
us to judge of the high perfection of the artistic powers
"which created such wonderful buildings, and were able
Dy means quite unknown to us to overcome the resist-
ance of the hardest stone. From whatever point of
view we look at Karnak, whether it be as an architec-
tural masterpiece or as an example of the artistic his-
tory of the nation, we must admit that as a whole its
conception is grand, and the execution full of taste and
refinement. Among the sculptures which have survived,
and are of great historical importance, are the statues
of the royal predecessors of Tehuti-mes III.—his grand-
father, father, and brother—which stand before one of
the southern temple-wings. The first, a ruined colossal
torso of reddish siliceous sandstone, represents a
?haraoh seated. An inscription on his girdle designates
him as. Tehuti-mes I., the father of the king Tehuti-
mes II.

Tehuti-mes II. ' erected this monument as a memorial to his
father, and to the Theban Amen-Ra, the heavenly inhabitant
•of Apet.'

A second inscription contains a new contribution to our
knowledge of the destructive anger of Hatshepsu, who
mutilated the monument erected by her brother in
honour of her own father, until at last Tehuti-mes III.
ordered the statue to be re-erected in good condition.

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[The lord of the land and] King Tehuti-mes III., the worshipper
of the Theban Amen, [restored this monument, which had been
mutilated, when he entered] the town Ni (Thebes) of the South
country in the year 42, on the 22nd day of the month Tehuti, with
the intention that the name of his father Tehuti-mes I. should be
preserved.