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by more than two horses. Great attention seems to
have been paid in these designs to national costume
and physiognomy; and in some of them human sacri-
fices are certainly represented, notwithstanding the sup-
position that the figures are allegorical. The sculpture,
that records the wars of Shishak in Palestine, is remark-
ably well executed, particularly a recumbent figure on
the lower part of the wall.
I went back by a ruined tank towards the reservoir
of water, already mentioned, and observed, to the east-
ward of an avenue of sphinxes, the foundation of a
building, which had been adorned with small Doric
columns. The blocks had fifteen fiutings of seven inches
and a quarter each, and had been fastened together in
the usual manner by wedge-shaped grooves crossing each
other at right angles at the centre. On each side of
the entrance were the pedestals, and lower parts of two
basaltic statues,1 in the same position as the Colossi in
1 The sculptures on the sides of the pedestal are the common orna-
mental border and the peculiar representation which may be called an
anaglyph ; it represents a terebra or bore placed between two groups
of the flowers of papyrus and lotus, the stem or cord of each central
flower rises to the height of the stick of the bore, passes to the top of
the picture, and droops pendent over the exterior flower. This anaglyph
has not been explained. The central symbol (the bore) is used in the
texts for the letter c (5) as the initial of a group reading c ee r " to
accuse, reprobate, command;" and the lotus and papyrus respectively
represent " the upper and lower hemisphere," the " north and south."
The whole apparently indicates " commanding the upper and the lower
world." The inscriptions, placed parallel to the legs of the statue, contain
the names and titles of Amenoph the Third, or Memnon. To the left is the
gracious God, Lord of dilating the heart (the Sun, Lord of Truth), beloved
of Pasht, Neith the giver of life eternal." To the right is " the son of the
Sun of his race loving him " . . . . beloved of Pasht, Neith--Mr. Birch.
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by more than two horses. Great attention seems to
have been paid in these designs to national costume
and physiognomy; and in some of them human sacri-
fices are certainly represented, notwithstanding the sup-
position that the figures are allegorical. The sculpture,
that records the wars of Shishak in Palestine, is remark-
ably well executed, particularly a recumbent figure on
the lower part of the wall.
I went back by a ruined tank towards the reservoir
of water, already mentioned, and observed, to the east-
ward of an avenue of sphinxes, the foundation of a
building, which had been adorned with small Doric
columns. The blocks had fifteen fiutings of seven inches
and a quarter each, and had been fastened together in
the usual manner by wedge-shaped grooves crossing each
other at right angles at the centre. On each side of
the entrance were the pedestals, and lower parts of two
basaltic statues,1 in the same position as the Colossi in
1 The sculptures on the sides of the pedestal are the common orna-
mental border and the peculiar representation which may be called an
anaglyph ; it represents a terebra or bore placed between two groups
of the flowers of papyrus and lotus, the stem or cord of each central
flower rises to the height of the stick of the bore, passes to the top of
the picture, and droops pendent over the exterior flower. This anaglyph
has not been explained. The central symbol (the bore) is used in the
texts for the letter c (5) as the initial of a group reading c ee r " to
accuse, reprobate, command;" and the lotus and papyrus respectively
represent " the upper and lower hemisphere," the " north and south."
The whole apparently indicates " commanding the upper and the lower
world." The inscriptions, placed parallel to the legs of the statue, contain
the names and titles of Amenoph the Third, or Memnon. To the left is the
gracious God, Lord of dilating the heart (the Sun, Lord of Truth), beloved
of Pasht, Neith the giver of life eternal." To the right is " the son of the
Sun of his race loving him " . . . . beloved of Pasht, Neith--Mr. Birch.
VOL. I. G