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)

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represented Amunoph HI.; the others, Pthahmen,
the son and successor of Remeses II. These last
were apparently standing statues in pairs, two
formed of one block, the hand of one resting on the
shoulder of the other; but their mutilated condi-
tion prevents our ascertaining their exact form, or
the other persons represented in these groups. But
an idea may be given of their colossal size by the
breadth across the shoulders, which is five feet three
inches; and though the sitting statues of Amunoph
were much smaller, their total height will not have
been less than ten feet.

I am surprised to find that M. Champollion,* in
mentioning these ruins, calls them the " calcareous
remains of the Menephtheion, the great building
erected by the son and successor of Rhamses the
Great;" and still more to observe that in speaking
of the inscriptions at Silsilis,f he mentions the son
and successor of Rhamses the Great under the
name of Schahemkeme, who, as he supposes, " lay-
ing aside this name which he bore as prince, as-
sumed on the monuments that of Thmeiothph."
" A stela," he adds, " of the year 2, of the 5th day
of Mesori, states that Silsilis furnished the stone for
building the palace of the king Thmeiothph, at
Thebes," where, he says, " there is no trace of it,

* Eighteenth Letter, Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles
Lettres.

t Twelfth Letter, Ibid.