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)

38 TOPOGRAPHY OF THEBES. [Chap. I.

central statue, the length of whose foot exceeded
seven cubits, or ten and a-half feet. Such, indeed,
is the size of their feet; and on either side stand
attached to the throne the wife and mother of
Amunoph, in height about six yards. The traces of
a smaller figure of his queen are also seen between
the feet, whose height did not exceed two and
a-half yards. The proportions of the colossi are
about* the same as of the granite statue of Re-
meses II.; but they are inferior in the weight and
hardness of their materials. The thrones are orna-
mented with figures of the god Nilus, who, holding
the stalks of two plants peculiar to the river, is en-
gaged in binding up a pedestal, or table, sur-
mounted by the name of the Egyptian monarch; a
symbolic group, indicating his dominion over the
upper and lower countries. A line of hieroglyphics
extends perpendicularly down the back, from the
shoulder to the pedestal, containing the name of the
Pharaoh they represent.*}-

Three hundred feet behind these are the remains
of another colossus of similar form and dimensions,
which, fallen prostrate, is partly buried by the allu-
vial deposits of the Nile.

* They measure about eighteen feet three across the shoulders;
sixteen feet six from top of shoulder to elbow; ten feet six from
top of head to shoulder • seventeen feet nine from elbow to the
fingers' end ; nineteen feet eight from knee to plant of foot.

f Amunoph, or Amunoth, III. Pausanias uses the former, the
inscriptions on the colossus the latter, and the hieroglyphic cha-
racter is still uncertain. Ph is merely the article.