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THE MONUMENTS OF UPPEK EGYPT.

Khetas. The light here is. more favorable, and
the details of the scene can be better studied.
Rameses is in the centre of the affray, deal-
ing death around him, and already numerous
corpses strew the field of battle. Here Graba-
tousa, the armor-bearer of the prince of Kheta,
falls pierced by the arrows of the king; there
Rabsounma, captain of the archers, meets Avith
the same fate. The Orontes lies in the path of
the Khetas, who fly in disorder. They precipi-
tate themselves into the stream, and on the other
side of the river one sees being drawn out of the
water one of the enemy's generals, whom his
soldiers suspend with his head downwards, in
order to expel the water which threatens to suf-
focate him. The episodes which the artist has
introduced here and there with more industry
than talent, are as numerous as they are inter-
esting, — witness the different portions of the
large bas-reliefs which cover the pylon. In other
parts of the edifice there are many religious
scenes representing Rameses in adoration before
the Theban gods, some lengthy lists of princes
and princesses of the royal family, and an astro-
nomical table which Biot's learned descriptions
have rendered famous. The hall conducting to