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)

80 TOPOGRAPHY OF THEBES. [Chap. I.

tinguished names in the sepulchres of these prin-
cesses are those of Amun-meit, or Amun-tmei, the
daughter of Amunoph I.; of Taia, wife of the third
Amunoph; of the favourite daughter of Remeses
II.; and of the consort of Remeses V. In another
appears the name of the third Remeses, but that of
his queen is not met with. They have all suffered
from the effects of fire, and little can be satisfac-
torily traced of their sculptures, except in that of
queen Taia.* It is not improbable, from the hiero-
glyphics on the impost of the inner door of this
tomb, that these are the burying-places of the Pal-
lades, or Pellices Jovis, mentioned by Strabo and
Diodorus; and the distance of ten stadia-j- from
these "first"orwesternmost tombs to the sepulchre
of Osymandyas, agrees remarkably well with that
from the supposed Memnonium to this valley. The
mummies of their original possessors must have
suffered in the general conflagration, which reduced
to ashes the contents of most of the tombs in this
and the adjacent valley of Dayr el Medeeneh ; and
the bodies of inferior persons and of Greeks, less
carefully embalmed,^ occupied at a subsequent

* Marked No. 12 in the Survey.

t Diod. i. 4*7. The ten stadia are 6042 feet; which, by the
road to this spot, correspond exactly with their distance from the
Memnonium. Their being the " first tombs" is another argument
in favour of this conjecture. First, in relation to the sacred lake.

| Greeks are also distinguished by the mode of binding the
mummy-cloths; the legs and arms being each bound with sepa-
rate wrappers, and by the spare use of aromatics and bitumen.