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RETURN I'liOM UPPER EGYPT.
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over the entrance had heen faced down, and towards the
right, or western side, rows of hieroglyphics had been
cut, but seemed to be illegible. One or two small
chambers, and the remains of steps leading to them, had
been also hewn out
on the sides of the
colonnade.
There did not
appear to be any
excavations in the
higher part of the
valley, but there
were several, on
both sides, which
contained deep
shafts,8 between
the Speos, and the
plain. One of them
was of a consider-
^Z7
8 The cartouches at this place, which are numbered from the left,
are apparently the prenomen, and name of Alexander, the son of
Alexander the Great. The prenomen repeated in B, 2, 4, 7, 9, reads
Pe £jHT, ClOTTl rt^JUUt " The sun rejoicing the heart
approved of Anion." The name occurring alternately in A, 1, 3, 5, 6,
8, 10, 3XXKC<LrTTpC, ALEXANDER. The first symbol, a bird or
eagle, is a phonetic variety of the common form. See Rosellini, torn. ii.
tav. xvii. b. 1, b. 2. The reason given by M. Rosellini for this name
not appertaining to Alexander the Great is, that Alexander particularly
assumed the title of the "son of Anion," which would have appeared
in the composition of his name,—a reason hardly adequate, as the title
of the "son of Anion," similar to the " Epiphanes and Theos Philadel-
phos," &c, in the Ptolemies, would probably have been added to the
name out of the cartouche, and consequently, the name may as well be
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over the entrance had heen faced down, and towards the
right, or western side, rows of hieroglyphics had been
cut, but seemed to be illegible. One or two small
chambers, and the remains of steps leading to them, had
been also hewn out
on the sides of the
colonnade.
There did not
appear to be any
excavations in the
higher part of the
valley, but there
were several, on
both sides, which
contained deep
shafts,8 between
the Speos, and the
plain. One of them
was of a consider-
^Z7
8 The cartouches at this place, which are numbered from the left,
are apparently the prenomen, and name of Alexander, the son of
Alexander the Great. The prenomen repeated in B, 2, 4, 7, 9, reads
Pe £jHT, ClOTTl rt^JUUt " The sun rejoicing the heart
approved of Anion." The name occurring alternately in A, 1, 3, 5, 6,
8, 10, 3XXKC<LrTTpC, ALEXANDER. The first symbol, a bird or
eagle, is a phonetic variety of the common form. See Rosellini, torn. ii.
tav. xvii. b. 1, b. 2. The reason given by M. Rosellini for this name
not appertaining to Alexander the Great is, that Alexander particularly
assumed the title of the "son of Anion," which would have appeared
in the composition of his name,—a reason hardly adequate, as the title
of the "son of Anion," similar to the " Epiphanes and Theos Philadel-
phos," &c, in the Ptolemies, would probably have been added to the
name out of the cartouche, and consequently, the name may as well be