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)

6' TOPOGRAPHY OF THEBES. [Chap. I.

his father, the king (fostered by Ra and Truth) the
Son of the Sun (Osirei)." The whole of this part
of the building bears the name of Remeses II.,
though his father is represented in some of these
sculptures as taking part in the religious ceremonies,
and assisting in making offerings to the deities of
the temple he had founded.

On the north-west side of the inner wall of this
corridor, the arks, or shrines of queen Ames-
Nofriatre, and of Osirei, are borne each by twelve
priests, in the " procession of the shrines,"* at-
tended by a fan-bearer and high priest, to the god
of the temple; and in a small tablet added at a
later period, the king Pthah-se-pthah is represented
in presence of Amunre, Ames-Nofriatre,f Osirei,
and Remeses II., receiving the emblems of royal
power from the hands of the deity. The most in-
teresting part of this temple is the lateral hall on
the west side, which, with the three chambers be-
hind it, king Osirei dedicated to his father Reme-
ses I.; but dying before the completion of the hall,

" repaired," which M. Champollion gives it; but I frequently
find it in sculptures, which are merely added on an ancient wall
where no repairs have been made, as at Medeenet Haboo, Dayr el
Bahree, and other places. I had formerly translated it " addition,"
until I observed its use for the word " cutting," but I am inclined
to adopt this reading again, in preference to " repaired."

* Mentioned in the Rosetta stone.

t From being placed before the king Osirei, she cannot be
his wife, but will be an ancestor of the family, the queen of
Amunoph I. The consort of Amosis also hore this name.