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[491] Closer view of corner of enclosure.

[491] Closer view of corner of enclosure.

Biahmu (Biyahmu). Colossi of Amenemhat (Amenemhet) III, bases/pedestals.
Caption reads:
'Closer view of corner of enclosure. (exactly end on)
with projecting foot of masonry below slope.
angle by Howard Vyse, (also by this view with horizon) 63º 30'
Angle of a rise of 2 on a base of 1 - 63º 26''

[228] Rock tomb of A-ā-ī in valley of Deir el Medineh.

[228] Rock tomb of A-ā-ī in valley of Deir el Medineh.

-Thebes. Deir el-Medina.
-TT210, Raweben.
-Chapel.
-Lintel with double-scene.
-TopBib i2.307(1).
-Caption:
'Rock tomb of A-ā-ī in valley of Deir el Medineh.
Aāī, his wife, son, brother, and four daughters, offering to
Horus, Ptah-sokar, Hathor, Amenhotep I, Queen Nofretari,
Osiris, Thoth, Isis, Hathor of Thebes, and Ptah. XVIII dyn.'

[494] N.W. corner of W. pile, with stones in enclosure, and edge of it.

[494] N.W. corner of W. pile, with stones in enclosure, and edge of it.

Biahmu (Biyahmu). Colossi of Amenemhat (Amenemhet) III, bases/pedestals.
Caption reads:
'N.W. corner of W. pile, with stones in enclosure, and edge of it.
These stones are the highest that exist between the walls
and the piles; and therefore the best evidence that there
is for a continuous pyramid.'

With three arrows pointing at the monuments described.

Note on the Sphinx

Note on the Sphinx

Giza (Gîza). The Great Sphinx.
Note reads:
'The Sphinx is supposed to be of pyramid date from (1) a tablet of the time of Xufu which mentions it, and from (2) the dream of Thothmes IV which attributes it to Xafra. (3) also its surroundings at Gizeh, of any consequence, are of that period. But on the other hand the tablet was found in a temple of Petuxanu of 21st dynasty, and is clearly a later and altered copy (or an invention) as it contains figures of Osiris, Isis and Horus, Horus, Isis Seth, Pasht?, Khem, the human headed uraeus, and sacred bark, which are not found on the early monuments: beside which the mention of the sphinx in it is only an incidental topographical allusion, not essential to the tablet. The allusion by Thothmes IV is also not conclusive, and it is of doubtful critical value concerning a king who reigned 1000 or 2000 years earlier. The strongest positive argument for the late date of the sphinx is that no drawing of a sphinx in symbols, or hieroglyphs, & no statue, is known before the Hyksos; the black granite Hyksos sphinx in Bulak being the earliest I believe. Was it not then an Asiatic idea (see the Assyrian human-headed animals) imported by the Hyksos? To them seems due the notion of burying images of slaves with a body, none such being known before their epoch, and this being a form of the Asiatic custom of burying strangled slaves with a great funeral.'

[119] Wrestlers. Tomb No 17 Beni Hassan.

[119] Wrestlers. Tomb No 17 Beni Hassan.

-Beni Hasan (Beni Hassan).
-Tomb 17, Khety.
-Hall.
-Wrestlers.
-TopBib iv.156-7(8)-(14).

-Caption:
'Wrestlers.
Tomb No 17 Beni Hassan.
All these are very difficult to photograph, being painted in
red on a dirty yellow wall, & only lighted by sunset light
shining into the chambers.'

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