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APPENDIX.
that the person, under whose superintendence, and the object, for
which the works were carried on, are stated in both the inscriptions;
that the name of the monarch forms the first part of the hieroglyphical,
aud the second of the Latin record ; and that the tutelary deities are
placed in compartments above the hieroglyphical text. Considering-,
therefore, the difference of idiom, and the time, which had elapsed
between the respective dates, the inscription upon the cippus represents
the devotional formularies, which had been adopted in the earliest
times.
The relative positions of these tablets, and the progressive enlarge-
ment of the quarries, are shewn in the ground plan. No. 1, the most
antient, and executed towards the end of the reign of Amonemhe IV.
is at the entrance of the excavation, which appears to have been worked
under Amenophis II. and III., by an imperfect tablet, to have been
continued to the time of Necho, and according to a demotic inscription,
traced in black, even to a later period. The tablet of Necho, indeed,
warrants a conjecture that the works were carried back again towards
the entrance of the quarry.
The Latin inscription on the cippus is as follows :—
" To Jupiter, the highest and most excellent Chnubis; to Juno, the
queen ; the tutelary deities of this mountain ; under the dominion of
the Roman people, and in the propitious era of our lords and empe-
rors, Severus and Antoninus, the most pious Augusti; of Geta, the
most pious Csesar(?); and of Julia Domna Augusta, the mother of the
camp; new quarries were first discovered near Philee ; and many
large rectangular columns and pillars were taken from them under
Subatianus8 Aquila, the prefect of Egypt; the care of the imperial
works being under the superintendence of Aurelius Heraclides,
decurio of the Moorish division (ala) of the army."
TOURAH QUARRIES.
No. 1. — This tablet, although imperfect, is of considerable import-
ance, because it contains on the cornice a date, " the 43d year." It does
not exhibit the figure of any deity, excepting that of Hat, "the good
demon," and the words "celestial sun," together with the names,
and tit les of the monarch, are written in large characters under the archi-
trave. The prenomen, which would have determined the name of the
individual king, is wanting, but the name proves that he belonged to
either the sixteenth, or seventeenth dynasty. The titles are " the son
of the sun, Amonemhe,9 beloved of Phtuh, the rampart of the south,
8 M. Dubois supposes that it is "Atianus," and that "Sub." is a repeti-
tion.
9 The earliest date connected with this name in Sir J. G. Wilkinson's
" Mat. Hier." agrees with the forty-first year of Amonemhe IV. according
APPENDIX.
that the person, under whose superintendence, and the object, for
which the works were carried on, are stated in both the inscriptions;
that the name of the monarch forms the first part of the hieroglyphical,
aud the second of the Latin record ; and that the tutelary deities are
placed in compartments above the hieroglyphical text. Considering-,
therefore, the difference of idiom, and the time, which had elapsed
between the respective dates, the inscription upon the cippus represents
the devotional formularies, which had been adopted in the earliest
times.
The relative positions of these tablets, and the progressive enlarge-
ment of the quarries, are shewn in the ground plan. No. 1, the most
antient, and executed towards the end of the reign of Amonemhe IV.
is at the entrance of the excavation, which appears to have been worked
under Amenophis II. and III., by an imperfect tablet, to have been
continued to the time of Necho, and according to a demotic inscription,
traced in black, even to a later period. The tablet of Necho, indeed,
warrants a conjecture that the works were carried back again towards
the entrance of the quarry.
The Latin inscription on the cippus is as follows :—
" To Jupiter, the highest and most excellent Chnubis; to Juno, the
queen ; the tutelary deities of this mountain ; under the dominion of
the Roman people, and in the propitious era of our lords and empe-
rors, Severus and Antoninus, the most pious Augusti; of Geta, the
most pious Csesar(?); and of Julia Domna Augusta, the mother of the
camp; new quarries were first discovered near Philee ; and many
large rectangular columns and pillars were taken from them under
Subatianus8 Aquila, the prefect of Egypt; the care of the imperial
works being under the superintendence of Aurelius Heraclides,
decurio of the Moorish division (ala) of the army."
TOURAH QUARRIES.
No. 1. — This tablet, although imperfect, is of considerable import-
ance, because it contains on the cornice a date, " the 43d year." It does
not exhibit the figure of any deity, excepting that of Hat, "the good
demon," and the words "celestial sun," together with the names,
and tit les of the monarch, are written in large characters under the archi-
trave. The prenomen, which would have determined the name of the
individual king, is wanting, but the name proves that he belonged to
either the sixteenth, or seventeenth dynasty. The titles are " the son
of the sun, Amonemhe,9 beloved of Phtuh, the rampart of the south,
8 M. Dubois supposes that it is "Atianus," and that "Sub." is a repeti-
tion.
9 The earliest date connected with this name in Sir J. G. Wilkinson's
" Mat. Hier." agrees with the forty-first year of Amonemhe IV. according