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20 catalogue of egyptian antiquities.
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same chapter, as well as in the book of Ezekiel—
xxix, 23. The fragment consists only of the right
hand and part of the body of the statue ; but
fragmentary as this piece of antiquity is,, those
few signs in the oval at the back identify it
with indisputable certainty as the statue of
the wife of Pharaoh-Hophra, and a work of ^ ^
art of the period, giving to it an importance as a tan-
gible evidence of the truth of Scripture history that
makes it of great value. We read—Jeremiah xliii,
13 —images in the temples of Egypt were broken at
the time of the Babylonish invasion which took place
about eight years after the death of Pharaoh-Hophra,
at which time this statue of the wife of a king who
had been so recently allied with the enemies of the
invader, would be an object of peculiar vengeance,
and therefore so greatly mutilated. This name
differs slightly from that of the same queen given in
the Chronology and Geography of Ancient Egypt,
by Mr. S. Sharpe.
44. Fragment of the large fallen Obelisk of
Karnak.—The companion obelisk of which this is a
fragment is one block of Syenite, or rose-coloured
granite, ninety-three feet long, eight feet square at
its base, and six feet square at the base of the pyra-
midion. See Transactions of the R. S. L., Vol. I,
second series, p. 158.
45. Fragment of soft Limestone from the Apis
cave near Sakkara, on which is an inscription in the
enchorial character.
46. Fragment of an Inscription from the Tomb
of a Priest, in the nummulite rock of the locality of
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same chapter, as well as in the book of Ezekiel—
xxix, 23. The fragment consists only of the right
hand and part of the body of the statue ; but
fragmentary as this piece of antiquity is,, those
few signs in the oval at the back identify it
with indisputable certainty as the statue of
the wife of Pharaoh-Hophra, and a work of ^ ^
art of the period, giving to it an importance as a tan-
gible evidence of the truth of Scripture history that
makes it of great value. We read—Jeremiah xliii,
13 —images in the temples of Egypt were broken at
the time of the Babylonish invasion which took place
about eight years after the death of Pharaoh-Hophra,
at which time this statue of the wife of a king who
had been so recently allied with the enemies of the
invader, would be an object of peculiar vengeance,
and therefore so greatly mutilated. This name
differs slightly from that of the same queen given in
the Chronology and Geography of Ancient Egypt,
by Mr. S. Sharpe.
44. Fragment of the large fallen Obelisk of
Karnak.—The companion obelisk of which this is a
fragment is one block of Syenite, or rose-coloured
granite, ninety-three feet long, eight feet square at
its base, and six feet square at the base of the pyra-
midion. See Transactions of the R. S. L., Vol. I,
second series, p. 158.
45. Fragment of soft Limestone from the Apis
cave near Sakkara, on which is an inscription in the
enchorial character.
46. Fragment of an Inscription from the Tomb
of a Priest, in the nummulite rock of the locality of