Wilkinson, John Gardner: Topographie of Thebes, and general view of Egypt: being a short account of the principal objects worthy of notice in the valley of the Nile, to the second cataracte and Wadi Samneh, with the Fyoom, Oases and eastern desert, from Sooez to Bertenice (London, 1835)

Chap. I.] FIRST OBJECTS TO BE VISITED. 3

porary of Joseph, and the earliest monarch whose
name exists on the monuments of Thebes.

To enable the mind freely to contemplate the
beauties of the ruins of this city, it is obvious that
Karnak, from being the most splendid, should be
the last visited by the stranger, who wishes to
bestow a share of his admiration on the smaller but
not less interesting monuments of the western bank,
the " Libyan suburb of Thebes,"* which included
the extensive quarter of the Memnonia, and ex-
tended to the small temple of Adrian on the west,
and, in the opposite direction, as far as the eastern
tombs of its immense cemetery.

To commence with the ruins nearest the river;
the first object worthy of notice is the small temple
and palace at old Qoorneh,f dedicated to Amun,J
the Theban Jupiter, by Osirei,^ and completed by
his son Remeses II., the supposed Sesostris of the
Greeks. Its plan, though it evinces the usual
symmetrophobia of Egyptian monuments, presents
a marked deviation from the ordinary distribution
of the parts which compose it. The entrance leads

* Papyri of Paris, of M. D'Anastasy, and of Mr. Grey.

t This village was destroyed and abandoned in the time of the
Ghooz, or Memlooks, since which time the people of Qodrneh
have preferred the more secure abode of the Theban tombs.

t I have adopted this mode of writing it, though Ammon is
equally correct.

§ This king, the father of Remeses II., has the name either of
Osirei or Oei, in addition to the title " Beloved of Amun," in one
variation, and " Beloved of Pthah," in the other.

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