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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work,* of granite; she has done this (who is) the
giver of life for ever."f

Beyond this pylon, following the same line of
direction, is a small area of a later epoch, and an-
other granite pylon, being the entrance of a large
chamber to which it is attached. This, as well as
the facade on either side, presented the name of
Amunneitgori, erased to admit those of Thothmes
II. and III.; and in other chambers to the west and
within the court between the two pylons, the same
name has suffered a similar outrage. That of
Thothmes I. also appears among the sculptures,
but as he is stated to have been " deceased," at the
time of its insertion, he must have been a predeces-
sor I of the founder of the building.

The vaulted chamber, built in the same manner
as those of the interior, is not constructed on the
principle of the arch, being composed of blocks
placed horizontally, one projecting beyond that

* Those words between single commas have been introduced
at a later period over the erased original characters. This is one
of the many instances of the substitution of the name of Amun,
for other hieroglyphics, which I have already noticed in my " Ma-
teria Hieroglyphica," p. 4. It is not confined to the name of the
god himself, but is sometimes met with in those of the kings,
when the word Amun occurs in them, at least previous to the
close of the reign of Amunoph III.

f Should we not rather read " to whom life has been given for
ever," or " who is gifted with eternal life ?"

J I had expressed my doubts as to the sera of Amunneitgori, in
my Materia Hier. pp. 11, 109, but had erroneously supposed the
first Thothmes a successor of this monarch.