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DISCOVERIES AT ABOU SIMBEL.
3b9
great
being divided from the next by a small sitting figure.
These figures, in other respects uniform, wear the symbolic
heads of various gods—the cow-head of Ilathor, the ibis-
head of Thoth, the hawk-head of Ilorus, the jackal-head
of Anubis, etc. The cartouches contain the ordinary
style and title of Rameses II (Ra-user-ma Sotep-en-Ra
Rameses Mer-Amen), and are surmounted by a row of sun-
disks. Under each sitting god is depicted the phonetic
hieroglyph signifying Mer, or beloved. By means of this
device, the whole frieze assumes the
character of a connected legend and
describes the king'not only as beloved
of Amen, but as Rameses beloved of
Ilathor, of Thoth, of Ilorus—in short,
of each god depicted in the series.
These gods excepted, the frieze is
almost identical in design with the
frieze in the first hall of the
temple.
WEST WALL.*
The west, or principal wall, facing
the entrance, is divided into two large
subjects, each containing two figures the
size of life. In the division to the right,
Rameses II worships R,i; in the division
to the left, he worships Amen-Ra; thus
following the order observed in the other
two temples, where the subjects relating
to Amen-Ra occupy the left half and the subjects relating
to Ra occupy the right half of each structure. An upright
ensign surmounted by an exquisitely drawn and colored
head of Horns Aroeris separates these two subjects.f In
I write of these walls, for convenience, as north, south, east and
west, as one is so accustomed to regard the position of buildings paral-
lel with the river; but the present monument, as it is turned slightly
southward round the angle of the rock, really stands southeast by
east, instead of east and west like the large temple.
t Horus Aroeris.—" Celui-ci, qui semble avoir ete frere d'Osiris,
Porte une tete d'epervier coiffee du pschent. II est presqne complete-
uient identifie avec le soleil dans la plupart des lieux ou il etait
adore, et il eu est de meme tres souvent pour Ilorus, fils d'Isis,"—
STANDARD OF HORUS
AKOERIS.
3b9
great
being divided from the next by a small sitting figure.
These figures, in other respects uniform, wear the symbolic
heads of various gods—the cow-head of Ilathor, the ibis-
head of Thoth, the hawk-head of Ilorus, the jackal-head
of Anubis, etc. The cartouches contain the ordinary
style and title of Rameses II (Ra-user-ma Sotep-en-Ra
Rameses Mer-Amen), and are surmounted by a row of sun-
disks. Under each sitting god is depicted the phonetic
hieroglyph signifying Mer, or beloved. By means of this
device, the whole frieze assumes the
character of a connected legend and
describes the king'not only as beloved
of Amen, but as Rameses beloved of
Ilathor, of Thoth, of Ilorus—in short,
of each god depicted in the series.
These gods excepted, the frieze is
almost identical in design with the
frieze in the first hall of the
temple.
WEST WALL.*
The west, or principal wall, facing
the entrance, is divided into two large
subjects, each containing two figures the
size of life. In the division to the right,
Rameses II worships R,i; in the division
to the left, he worships Amen-Ra; thus
following the order observed in the other
two temples, where the subjects relating
to Amen-Ra occupy the left half and the subjects relating
to Ra occupy the right half of each structure. An upright
ensign surmounted by an exquisitely drawn and colored
head of Horns Aroeris separates these two subjects.f In
I write of these walls, for convenience, as north, south, east and
west, as one is so accustomed to regard the position of buildings paral-
lel with the river; but the present monument, as it is turned slightly
southward round the angle of the rock, really stands southeast by
east, instead of east and west like the large temple.
t Horus Aroeris.—" Celui-ci, qui semble avoir ete frere d'Osiris,
Porte une tete d'epervier coiffee du pschent. II est presqne complete-
uient identifie avec le soleil dans la plupart des lieux ou il etait
adore, et il eu est de meme tres souvent pour Ilorus, fils d'Isis,"—
STANDARD OF HORUS
AKOERIS.