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THE EXPENDED TRIBUTE
commencement of the full titulary of Thothmes. Probably the cover
lifted off and it was used as a receptacle for cult objects.1
The second monument is described as "a noble palace of sandstone."
The use is not stated; but it is likely to have served as a pedestal, or
as the resting-place for a sacred bark.2 The third work of art is again an
elaborate one. It is called "a great gated-wall (tibh.t) of gold worked
on hammered copper," and seems intended for a pedestal.3 It is colored
yellow, and its side is covered with designs in extremely fine red line,
representing a fagade with central doorway, inscribed on lintel and jambs
with the titulary of Thothmes. On both sides of this is a row of jj and
J amulets in pairs on a mat, and below, perhaps, vertical recesses,
with laudatory phrases filling the intervals, and a dado of false doors.
The decorative balustrade on the cornice is formed of royal sphinxes
crowned with the atef, and alternating with a ka device like that just
noticed, save that the cobra-goddess carries high feathers as well as the
disk and horns.
This closes an array of temple furniture, which appears to be part
of a single gift of the national exchequer to Amon, perhaps in celebration
of one of the many victorious campaigns of Thothmes. One wonders to
what dimensions the storehouses of Amon attained. It was perhaps
with the treasures as with the temples. One high priest may have
melted down again what his predecessors designed and executed. Few
and poor are those that have come down to our own day; but the wide
necropolis of Thebes, whose goddess "loves silence," has yet more than
one unrifled corner within its desolate wastes.
The south half of a tomb is, where convenient, devoted to events
device was used by Hatshepsut to crown the pictures in the colonnades of her temple, but the ka has been
savagely erased when over her figure.
'Breasted, A.R., II, § i65; Davies, Five Theban Tombs, p. 10. See Jequier, Recueil, XXXV, p. 119,
for ifd, "casket," applied to chambers or shrines similarly shaped.
2 Such objects in the illustrations to the Annals at Karnak are labeled "supports" (s"ki). One there is
of granite (row X), another of gold and various rare stones (row Y). A third, used as an altar, is of bronze
(row IX).
3 A somewhat similar fagade with doors is so denominated in the Karnak annals (row Y), as is also a
screen set on feet and made of gold (row I). As the sbfyt seems properly to mean a screening or protective
wall, this may be the use also of our object. Cf. Breasted, A.R., II, § i64.
IOI
Architectural
models in
bronze and
stone
Supplemen-
tary produc-
tions
commencement of the full titulary of Thothmes. Probably the cover
lifted off and it was used as a receptacle for cult objects.1
The second monument is described as "a noble palace of sandstone."
The use is not stated; but it is likely to have served as a pedestal, or
as the resting-place for a sacred bark.2 The third work of art is again an
elaborate one. It is called "a great gated-wall (tibh.t) of gold worked
on hammered copper," and seems intended for a pedestal.3 It is colored
yellow, and its side is covered with designs in extremely fine red line,
representing a fagade with central doorway, inscribed on lintel and jambs
with the titulary of Thothmes. On both sides of this is a row of jj and
J amulets in pairs on a mat, and below, perhaps, vertical recesses,
with laudatory phrases filling the intervals, and a dado of false doors.
The decorative balustrade on the cornice is formed of royal sphinxes
crowned with the atef, and alternating with a ka device like that just
noticed, save that the cobra-goddess carries high feathers as well as the
disk and horns.
This closes an array of temple furniture, which appears to be part
of a single gift of the national exchequer to Amon, perhaps in celebration
of one of the many victorious campaigns of Thothmes. One wonders to
what dimensions the storehouses of Amon attained. It was perhaps
with the treasures as with the temples. One high priest may have
melted down again what his predecessors designed and executed. Few
and poor are those that have come down to our own day; but the wide
necropolis of Thebes, whose goddess "loves silence," has yet more than
one unrifled corner within its desolate wastes.
The south half of a tomb is, where convenient, devoted to events
device was used by Hatshepsut to crown the pictures in the colonnades of her temple, but the ka has been
savagely erased when over her figure.
'Breasted, A.R., II, § i65; Davies, Five Theban Tombs, p. 10. See Jequier, Recueil, XXXV, p. 119,
for ifd, "casket," applied to chambers or shrines similarly shaped.
2 Such objects in the illustrations to the Annals at Karnak are labeled "supports" (s"ki). One there is
of granite (row X), another of gold and various rare stones (row Y). A third, used as an altar, is of bronze
(row IX).
3 A somewhat similar fagade with doors is so denominated in the Karnak annals (row Y), as is also a
screen set on feet and made of gold (row I). As the sbfyt seems properly to mean a screening or protective
wall, this may be the use also of our object. Cf. Breasted, A.R., II, § i64.
IOI
Architectural
models in
bronze and
stone
Supplemen-
tary produc-
tions