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LEOTUFE ON EGYPT. 17
moval and elevation of large stones could not in those
days have been very difficult to the builders, is the
fact that they are constantly found in positions where
they have no special value either for appearance or
structural strength.
Near to the Great Pyramid is the colossal Sphynx,
or figure of a lion with a human head, cut out of the
solid rock. Egyptologists inform us that an inscription
in one of the adjoining temples affords evidence that
this mysterious figure had been gazed on in still more
remote ages by the ancestors of the Pharaohs who built
the Pyramids.
The small museum at Boulac, in Cairo, is well Boulao
filled with hieroglyphics, statuary, gold and enamel museum-
ornaments, and other objects of antiquity. One of the
statues, remarkable for its beautiful finish, in the
hardest of materials, diorite, is that of Chephren, the
builder of the second Pyramid, found with eight other
statues, all bearing his name, in the temple near the
Sphinx. The famous wooden Sheik, whose name was
Easamka, has furnished material for many learned
papers; and the two marvellous sitting statues of Prince
Ea-Hotep and Princess K"efer-t are probably the most
interesting and valuable statues in the collection. They
are all portraits, and were undoubtedly executed during
the lifetime of the persons represented.
The statues of the Prince and Princess, supposed to
be the oldest in the world, were brought from a tomb
of the third dynasty, between the times of Cheops and
c
moval and elevation of large stones could not in those
days have been very difficult to the builders, is the
fact that they are constantly found in positions where
they have no special value either for appearance or
structural strength.
Near to the Great Pyramid is the colossal Sphynx,
or figure of a lion with a human head, cut out of the
solid rock. Egyptologists inform us that an inscription
in one of the adjoining temples affords evidence that
this mysterious figure had been gazed on in still more
remote ages by the ancestors of the Pharaohs who built
the Pyramids.
The small museum at Boulac, in Cairo, is well Boulao
filled with hieroglyphics, statuary, gold and enamel museum-
ornaments, and other objects of antiquity. One of the
statues, remarkable for its beautiful finish, in the
hardest of materials, diorite, is that of Chephren, the
builder of the second Pyramid, found with eight other
statues, all bearing his name, in the temple near the
Sphinx. The famous wooden Sheik, whose name was
Easamka, has furnished material for many learned
papers; and the two marvellous sitting statues of Prince
Ea-Hotep and Princess K"efer-t are probably the most
interesting and valuable statues in the collection. They
are all portraits, and were undoubtedly executed during
the lifetime of the persons represented.
The statues of the Prince and Princess, supposed to
be the oldest in the world, were brought from a tomb
of the third dynasty, between the times of Cheops and
c