Perring, John Shae; 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 3): Appendix (London, 1842)

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enjoying the proper rising of the deity, it has seemed good to the in-
habitants of the village Busiris, in the Latopolitan Nome, who live near
the Pyramids, and to the local and village clerks therein to vote and

dedicate a stone column................It preserves his

godlike.......column.......in sacred characters to be

remembered for ever........for having come to our noroe, and

for having worshipped the sun, Armachis, the overseer, and Saviour, and

for having been delighted with the magnificence and.....of the

Pyramids.

PLATE H.

Fig. 1 was inscribed on a stele near the building at N. in ground-
plan, and is noticed in p. 414 of the " Quarterly Review."

To Good Fortune.
In the sixth year of Antoninus and of Verus, the sovereign Emperors,
in the prefecture of Flavius Titianus, Lucianus Ophellianus being Com-
mander in chief, and Theon being the general of the Nome, he rebuilt
the walls under happy auspices.

Pachon XV.

Fig. 2 was found on a pier above Esne, and is inserted by mistake,
on account of its having been written in the same page of the MS. with
the other inscriptions.

Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, were on the paws of the Sphinx. Fig. 3 is
obscure. Fig. 4 is the Adorations of Harpocratius and of Punan. Fig 5.
The Adoration of Arius. Fig. 6. The Adoration of Hermius Alexander

......Fig. 7. The Adoration of Hermius. Fig. 8. The Adoration ot

Arius.

INSCRIPTION ON A BUILDING AT T IN GROUND-PLAN.

For the eternal victory, and......of the sovereign lords.

Septimius Severus, Pius, Pertinax, Arabicus, Adiabenicus, Parthicus,
Maximus, and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus being emperors.3

and Julia

Domna Empress mother, of the camps, the pavement

.....having been destroyed, was restored

.... nus ; prefect of Egypt, being commander-in-chief,
Arrius Victor commanding.......

' Caracalla had the titles of M. Au. Antoninus, anil is here alluded to.
This inscription is also mentioned in the " Quarterly Review."