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colours, either in chequers cr in waving lines. The cabin walla
are ornamented with different figures; as sphinxes, dancing wo-
men, birds, and other animals.
Among the more mysterious representations in these tombs are
snakes in a variety of situations, cither alone, or worshipped by
the adoring crowd, and borne along on the shoulders of fifteen
or twenty persons in a row; or a figure of Isis is sitting upon
them. The long female figure, which appears to be the Grecian
Cybele, is in the character of the mother of the earth, the sea and
the heavens, with their inhabitants, which she encompasses with
her legs and arms. Rows of headless figures, with their heads
laid in heaps beside them, are frequently continued round the
cornice of the sepulchral chambers.
I copied the underwritten testimonies of some of those who
had visited and admired these tombs in the course of the lust
twenty centuries.
1. nOP'I'TPIOC IAll'N EeATMx^E.
2. AHMHTPIOC ACKAHIIIAC ET4-P0N0C API'^TOMAXOT APrElO'v
3. KTHUAe HnAItUNOr.------i. mnOKPATHC TJOC SAIAIMOr APKAC.
5. ET___IAN *IAUJNOC *OAIOT EHI riTOAEMAIOTTOT UTOAEMAIOT MHNOC.
6. IANVARIVS PP VIDI ET MIRAVI LOCV CV.M FILIAMEA IANVAR1NA
VALETE OMNES.
7. Richard Pococke Anglus, Sept. 16, 1739.
8. rAlOC IOTAIOC I1AIC cnAPTIO " HXHJ.
9. TO riPOCKTNHMA TU/N TEKNffiN APTEMIAlL'POT KAI___
The sepulchral monuments of the private inhabitants of
Thebes are m their way equally interesting with those of the
kings:—like those at Eleithias, the painted sculptures on the
walls present to us faithful portraits of the (Economical pursuits
cf those who are interred within them, and bear a lasting record
of the degree of excellence; to which the arts of design were cul-
tivated during the early periods oftheTheban monarchy. These
catacombs or columbaria are excavated in the solid rock, either
y at
colours, either in chequers cr in waving lines. The cabin walla
are ornamented with different figures; as sphinxes, dancing wo-
men, birds, and other animals.
Among the more mysterious representations in these tombs are
snakes in a variety of situations, cither alone, or worshipped by
the adoring crowd, and borne along on the shoulders of fifteen
or twenty persons in a row; or a figure of Isis is sitting upon
them. The long female figure, which appears to be the Grecian
Cybele, is in the character of the mother of the earth, the sea and
the heavens, with their inhabitants, which she encompasses with
her legs and arms. Rows of headless figures, with their heads
laid in heaps beside them, are frequently continued round the
cornice of the sepulchral chambers.
I copied the underwritten testimonies of some of those who
had visited and admired these tombs in the course of the lust
twenty centuries.
1. nOP'I'TPIOC IAll'N EeATMx^E.
2. AHMHTPIOC ACKAHIIIAC ET4-P0N0C API'^TOMAXOT APrElO'v
3. KTHUAe HnAItUNOr.------i. mnOKPATHC TJOC SAIAIMOr APKAC.
5. ET___IAN *IAUJNOC *OAIOT EHI riTOAEMAIOTTOT UTOAEMAIOT MHNOC.
6. IANVARIVS PP VIDI ET MIRAVI LOCV CV.M FILIAMEA IANVAR1NA
VALETE OMNES.
7. Richard Pococke Anglus, Sept. 16, 1739.
8. rAlOC IOTAIOC I1AIC cnAPTIO " HXHJ.
9. TO riPOCKTNHMA TU/N TEKNffiN APTEMIAlL'POT KAI___
The sepulchral monuments of the private inhabitants of
Thebes are m their way equally interesting with those of the
kings:—like those at Eleithias, the painted sculptures on the
walls present to us faithful portraits of the (Economical pursuits
cf those who are interred within them, and bear a lasting record
of the degree of excellence; to which the arts of design were cul-
tivated during the early periods oftheTheban monarchy. These
catacombs or columbaria are excavated in the solid rock, either
y at