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Chap. I.] OTHER COLOSSI OF THE SAME DROMOS. 39
Corresponding to this are four smaller* statues,
formed of one block, and representing male and
female figures, probably of Amunoph and his queen.
They are seated on a throne, now concealed beneath
the soil, and two of them are quite defaced. Their
total height, without the head, which has been broken
off, is eight feet three inches, including the pedestal;
and that they occupy their original site, the accu-
mulation of the soil, their position on sandy ground,
and their general direction, satisfactorily prove.
Eighty-three yards behind these are the frag-
ments of another colossus, which, like the last, has
been thrown across the dromos it once adorned;
and if the nature of its materials did not tend to
enhance its beauty, their novelty, at least, called on
the spectator to admire a statue of an enormous
mass of crystallized carbonate of lime.
It may not be amiss to observe, with regard to
the original position of the two colossi, and the rise
of the alluvial soil at their base; First, that the
dromos f descended by a gradual talus of about two
* Making every allowance for Egyptian symmetrophobia, they
are a strange pendant for a colossus of sixty feet. Their total
height was about nine feet ten inches, including the pedestal of
one foot three: they measure three feet six across the shoulders,
three feet eight from knee to plant, one foot ten and a-half the
foot, and eight inches broad. The stone is a hard white chert.
t The dromos was a paved approach to Egyptian temples, ge-
nerally formed by an avenue of sphinxes. Sometimes two statues
or stete commenced the avenue; but the dromos above-mentioned
had not only the colossi in front, but others at intervals in its
course towards the temple.
Corresponding to this are four smaller* statues,
formed of one block, and representing male and
female figures, probably of Amunoph and his queen.
They are seated on a throne, now concealed beneath
the soil, and two of them are quite defaced. Their
total height, without the head, which has been broken
off, is eight feet three inches, including the pedestal;
and that they occupy their original site, the accu-
mulation of the soil, their position on sandy ground,
and their general direction, satisfactorily prove.
Eighty-three yards behind these are the frag-
ments of another colossus, which, like the last, has
been thrown across the dromos it once adorned;
and if the nature of its materials did not tend to
enhance its beauty, their novelty, at least, called on
the spectator to admire a statue of an enormous
mass of crystallized carbonate of lime.
It may not be amiss to observe, with regard to
the original position of the two colossi, and the rise
of the alluvial soil at their base; First, that the
dromos f descended by a gradual talus of about two
* Making every allowance for Egyptian symmetrophobia, they
are a strange pendant for a colossus of sixty feet. Their total
height was about nine feet ten inches, including the pedestal of
one foot three: they measure three feet six across the shoulders,
three feet eight from knee to plant, one foot ten and a-half the
foot, and eight inches broad. The stone is a hard white chert.
t The dromos was a paved approach to Egyptian temples, ge-
nerally formed by an avenue of sphinxes. Sometimes two statues
or stete commenced the avenue; but the dromos above-mentioned
had not only the colossi in front, but others at intervals in its
course towards the temple.