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the consequence : the spirit of revenge and of retaliation has fixed
between them an inveterate animosity, which a regular and
strong government alone can ever put an end to.
The name of Englishmen, however, was a sufficient passport
for us to ensure their good-will and assistance in our pursuits;
and we were equally well satisfied with them as guides to the
royal sepulchres, or as dealers in mummies, embalmed animals,
idols of bronze and earthen-ware, and rolls of papyrus.
I shall endeavour to observe the following order in enume-
rating the several objects of antiquity on this side of the water.
1st, The Memnonion, as is called the large temple about mid-way
between those of El-Ebek and Medinet Abou*. It has obtained
this name from the broken colossal statue near it, supposed by
the French travellers to be the statue of Mcmnon, which was the
object of the vengeance of Cambyses; 2dly, Medinet Abou, a
mile South of the former, which others have also called the
Memnonion, from the Greek name of Papas, Father, which it is
certain Avas given to the Memnonion in the time of the Christian
possessors of the country, and which may have given rise to its
present Arabic name; 3dly, The small temple of Ebck ; 4thly,
The two sitting colossal statues; 5thly, The tombs of the kings;
6thly, The sepulchral grottoes excavated in the side of the moun-
tain to the West; 7thly, A small temple of Isis among the wilds
of the Desert; and, lastly, Several colossal statues that lie muti-
lated and scattered on the ground in different places.
The building to which the French travellers have given the
name of the Memnonion is in a very imperfect state ; enough of
it, however, still remains to make it one of the most interesting
* The Memnonion of Strabo was either a palace or temple, or it was the name of
Western Thebes; and I shall hereafter consider the probability of Medinet Abou, or
City of the Father, being the Memnonion.
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the consequence : the spirit of revenge and of retaliation has fixed
between them an inveterate animosity, which a regular and
strong government alone can ever put an end to.
The name of Englishmen, however, was a sufficient passport
for us to ensure their good-will and assistance in our pursuits;
and we were equally well satisfied with them as guides to the
royal sepulchres, or as dealers in mummies, embalmed animals,
idols of bronze and earthen-ware, and rolls of papyrus.
I shall endeavour to observe the following order in enume-
rating the several objects of antiquity on this side of the water.
1st, The Memnonion, as is called the large temple about mid-way
between those of El-Ebek and Medinet Abou*. It has obtained
this name from the broken colossal statue near it, supposed by
the French travellers to be the statue of Mcmnon, which was the
object of the vengeance of Cambyses; 2dly, Medinet Abou, a
mile South of the former, which others have also called the
Memnonion, from the Greek name of Papas, Father, which it is
certain Avas given to the Memnonion in the time of the Christian
possessors of the country, and which may have given rise to its
present Arabic name; 3dly, The small temple of Ebck ; 4thly,
The two sitting colossal statues; 5thly, The tombs of the kings;
6thly, The sepulchral grottoes excavated in the side of the moun-
tain to the West; 7thly, A small temple of Isis among the wilds
of the Desert; and, lastly, Several colossal statues that lie muti-
lated and scattered on the ground in different places.
The building to which the French travellers have given the
name of the Memnonion is in a very imperfect state ; enough of
it, however, still remains to make it one of the most interesting
* The Memnonion of Strabo was either a palace or temple, or it was the name of
Western Thebes; and I shall hereafter consider the probability of Medinet Abou, or
City of the Father, being the Memnonion.
4 monuments