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)

178 ITS OHIO IN A L DIMENSIONS. [Chap. IV.

have existed in and previous to the reign of this
monarch, and probably stood on the site of the
present one,*—an opinion confirmed by the circum-
stance of our finding the oldest remains in that
direction, as well as from the proportions of the
courts and propyla, whose dimensions were neces-
sarily made to accord with the symmetry of the
previous parts, to which they were united. All is
here on a limited scale, and the polygonal columns f
of Osirtesen, the prototype of the Greek Doric,
evince the chaste style of architecture in vogue at
that early era. \

Subsequently to the reign of this Pharaoh were
added the small chambers of Amunoph I.,§ the
obelisks of Thothmes I., the great obelisks, and the
rooms || near the sanctuary of Amunneitgori, and
on the corresponding side those of Thothmes II.

These constituted the main part of the temple at
this period. The succeeding monarch, Thothmes
III., made considerable additions to the buildings
and sculptures, as well in the vicinity of the sanc-

* Marked 9. The restoration of Philip is mentioned in the
hieroglyphics, as also the name of Thothmes, the first monarch
who built this sanctuary of granite.

f Marked 12 of the ground plan in the Survey."

| M. Champollion supposed that this Pharaoh,'in whose reign
the grottos of Beni Hassan were commenced, was " the second
king of the twenty-third dynasty, in the ninth century B.C.;" but
he afterwards perceived that he was a member of the sixteenth,
at the commencement of the eighteenth century B.C.

§ Marked 8. || Marked 12.