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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phics of various epochs, having been brought from
other structures; among which the most remark-
able are—one containing the name of the immediate
predecessor of Remeses I., and mentioning " the
father of his father's father's father,* Thothmes III.
who was, in reality, his fourth ancestor; and an-
other of the fourth year of Pthahmen, the son of
Remeses II.

It had been long supposed that a communication
existed from this temple to the Valley of the Kings,
for which reason, indeed, I was induced to open
the inner part during my stay in 1827.f But the
appearance of the end room sufficiently decides the
question, and proves this conjecture \ to have been
ill-founded; and it will be seen from the Survey
that the nearest, and consequently most opportune
spot for such a communication is not on the exact
line of this building.

On the east side of the dromos, and about six
hundred feet from the pedestals of the obelisks, are
the fragments of granite sphinxes and calcareous
columns of an early epoch, at least coeval with the
founder of these structures; and a short distance

* In my Materia Hier., Part II. Plate I, name c. d.

f I am not certain that Mr. Salt did not also open i\. some years
previously.

| M. Champollion mentions another conjecture, of " several
travellers," who have been " recently deceived" by the appear-
ance of this building, and who have supposed it to be the " tomb
of Mosris." But does not the supposed identity of Thothmes III.
and Moeris originate with M. C?