Howard-Vyse, Richard William Howard: Operations carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into upper Egypt, and Appendix (Band 1) (London, 1840)

RETURN FROM UTPER EGYPT.

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over the entrance,
and beneath it the
figures of a king, and
of a queen dressed in
high caps; the whole
being surrounded with
various hieroglyphic-
al inscriptions. The
principal cartouches
had been entirely de-
stroyed in every part
of the tomb, and, as
the form of the caps
appeared to be Per-
sian, they might have belonged to the era when that
people possessed the country. The following cartouches

A B

were inscribed on the walls, and the same are also said to
exist at Djebel Toona.1

1 The hieroglyphical cartouches at Tel-El-Amarna contain the ho-
norific titles of the sun, in reference to the solar disc, whose rays of
light terminate in human hands: the Deities, on account of their mythic
reign over Egypt, had all cartouches in which their names were in-
scribed. The cartouche A, which may be considered as the prenomen,