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)

96 TOPOGRAPHY OF THEBES. [Chap. I.

Thothmes III.* followed by his daughter, Re-ni-
nofre. The niche and inner door also present the
name of the former, effaced by the same Thothmes,
whose name throughout the interior usurps the
place of his predecessor's. To this succeeds a
smaller apartment, which, like the two lateral
rooms with which it communicates, has a vaulted
roof; and beyond these is an adytum of the late
date of Ptolemy Physcon.

The opinion of M. Champollion regarding the
founder of this edifice is, that Amunneitgori (his
Amenenthe) was the husband of Amense, daughter f
of the first Thothmes, and governed in Amense's
name, and was regent during the minority of
Thothmes III. I can neither agree with him that
" Thothmes III. was the Maeris of the Greeks," nor
that a hitherto " unknown Thothmes,"" who, he adds,
is again found " treated as a queen at Medeenet
Haboo," is to be met with in the temple before us.
This Thothmes to whom he alludes, is no other
than the second of that name; who, whenever his
nomen has been sculptured over the half-effaced
name of Amunneitgori, has been content to leave

* The building might be supposed to have been erected in honor
of Thothmes I. by the former monarch, but the presence of the
daughter of Thothmes III. precludes the possibility of Amunneit-
gori being regent during his " minority."

f If so, how does it happen that this his consort is not here
mentioned, either with him or with her father ? And yet we have
here a daughter of Thothmes I., but with another name.