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Chap. I.] OTHEK RUINS. 9
Following the edge of the cultivated land, and
about one hundred and eighty yards to the west of
this building, are two mutilated statues of Re-
meses II., of black granite, with a few substructions
to the north of them; and seven hundred and
seventy yards farther to the west, lies, in the cul-
tivated soil, a sandstone block of Remeses III.,
presenting in high relief the figure of that king be-
tween Osiris and Pthah. Fourteen hundred feet
beyond this, in the same direction, is a crude brick
inclosure, with large towers, which once contained
within it a sandstone temple, dating probably from
the reign of the third Thothmes, whose name is
stamped on the bricks, and who appears to have
been the contemporary of Moses.
Other fragments and remains of crude brick
walls proclaim the existence of other ruins in its
vicinity; and about a thousand feet farther to the
south-west is the palace and temple of Remeses II.,
erroneously called the Memnonium;* a building,
the Coptic word ouon; a remarkable confirmation of which is
found in the name of a wolf, ouonsh, which is written by a hare,
ou, the zigzag, n, and a narrow parallelogram, sh.
* Though apparently the Memnonium of Strabo, v. infra, p. 12
and 13. The title of Miamun, attached to the name of Remeses II.,
was probably corrupted by the Romans into Memnon, and became
the origin of the word Memnonium or Memnonia, since we find
it again applied to the buildings at Abydus, which were finished
by the same monarch. Strabo, who says that if Ismandes is the
same as Memnon, these monuments at Thebes will have the same
title of Memnonian as those at Abydus, appears to have had in
view the palace-temple of Remeses Miamun ; and it was not till
Following the edge of the cultivated land, and
about one hundred and eighty yards to the west of
this building, are two mutilated statues of Re-
meses II., of black granite, with a few substructions
to the north of them; and seven hundred and
seventy yards farther to the west, lies, in the cul-
tivated soil, a sandstone block of Remeses III.,
presenting in high relief the figure of that king be-
tween Osiris and Pthah. Fourteen hundred feet
beyond this, in the same direction, is a crude brick
inclosure, with large towers, which once contained
within it a sandstone temple, dating probably from
the reign of the third Thothmes, whose name is
stamped on the bricks, and who appears to have
been the contemporary of Moses.
Other fragments and remains of crude brick
walls proclaim the existence of other ruins in its
vicinity; and about a thousand feet farther to the
south-west is the palace and temple of Remeses II.,
erroneously called the Memnonium;* a building,
the Coptic word ouon; a remarkable confirmation of which is
found in the name of a wolf, ouonsh, which is written by a hare,
ou, the zigzag, n, and a narrow parallelogram, sh.
* Though apparently the Memnonium of Strabo, v. infra, p. 12
and 13. The title of Miamun, attached to the name of Remeses II.,
was probably corrupted by the Romans into Memnon, and became
the origin of the word Memnonium or Memnonia, since we find
it again applied to the buildings at Abydus, which were finished
by the same monarch. Strabo, who says that if Ismandes is the
same as Memnon, these monuments at Thebes will have the same
title of Memnonian as those at Abydus, appears to have had in
view the palace-temple of Remeses Miamun ; and it was not till