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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tuary as in the back part of the great inclosure,
where the columnar building above mentioned, the
side chambers, and all the others in that direction,
were added by his orders.

The sanctuary destroyed by the Persians, and
since rebuilt by Philip Aridseus,* was also of the
same Pharaoh ; most probably having been at first,
like the rest of the temple, of sandstone, and re-
erected by him of red granite.f The wall Number
11 is double, the inner part bearing the name of
Amunneitgori, the actual face that of Thothmes III.,
who presents to the god of Thebes a variety of
offerings, among which are two obelisks £ and two
lofty tapering staffs, similar to those placed before
their propyla.§ At the close of his reign the
temple only extended || to the smaller obelisks,
before which were added by Amunoph III. the

* That is during M3 reign, Ptolemy Lagus being then only
governor of Egypt in his name.

f A Mock of red granite, now forming part of the ceiling, bears
the name of the third Thothmes, having most probably belonged
to the first granite sanctuary.

I Mr. Burton, who first discovered and cleared the sculptures
of this wall, has given a copy of them in his " Excerpta." The
obelisks were of " granite."

§ I once thought they might be the granite pillars before the
sanctuary, whose summits are fallen ; but these sculptured repre-
sentations do not imitate the devices of the water-plants with
which they are ornamented.

|| To give a minute explanation of the different additions made
previous to this Pharaoh, requires a much larger plan than that
given in the Survey; 1 therefore only propose for the present a
general view of the subject.

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