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)

Chap. I.] FOUNDER OF DATE EL BAHREE. 93

work (i. e. sculpture) made he, the king Remeses
(II.), to his father Amunre," proving what I before
stated respecting the characters signifying " addi-
tion," since no repairs have here been made by the
monarch whose ex voto, if I may so call it, is thus
introduced. Beyond these are some elegant fowl-
ing scenes, and other sculpture, and on the west
wall are a series of hawks in very prominent relief,
about the height of a man, surmounted by the asp
and globe, the emblems of the sun and of the king
as Pharaoh.

The granite pylon at the upper extremity of the
inclined ascent, bore, like the rest of the building,
the name of the founder, Amunneitgori; which, in
spite of the architectural usurpations of the third
Thothmes, is still traced in the ovals of the jambs
and lintel. Nor is it from the appearance of the
ovals alone that we are enabled to restore this, as
well as the rest of the temple, to its original founder;
the very sense of the hieroglyphics would remove
all doubts, if any existed, regarding this fact, from
the singular circumstance of the female signs being
used throughout them, so manifestly at variance
with the name of this king. For instance, on the
jamb, we read, after the name of Thothmes III.,
(but still preceded by the square title or escutcheon
of Pharaoh Amunneitgori,) " She has made this
work for her father ' Amunre, lord of the regions'
(l. e. of Upper and Lower Egypt) ; she has erected
to him this fine gateway, ' Amun protects' the