This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...by Merenptah, who battered his name in upon the exquisitely finished surfaces. Near Tanis, at Faqus, a red granite sphinx has been found, which is probably of Usertesen (A.Z. xxiii. n). Passing Heliopolis, above noted, and the temple of Memphis, which seems to have been completed before Usertesen, a remarkable red ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...by Merenptah, who battered his name in upon the exquisitely finished surfaces. Near Tanis, at Faqus, a red granite sphinx has been found, which is probably of Usertesen (A.Z. xxiii. n). Passing Heliopolis, above noted, and the temple of Memphis, which seems to have been completed before Usertesen, a remarkable red granite obelisk is found in the Fayum, at Begig. This differs from all other monoliths in Egypt, being rounded at the top with a cylindrical curvature parallel with the wide face (L.D. ii. 119). The steles of Medum are rounded with a spherical curve, which shows of course most prominently on the broad face; whereas this is rectangular in front view, and only curved in side view. The subject of decoration is also peculiar. The upper part of the face is occupied by five courses of scenes, and 13 lines of hieroglyphs below them. Each course re Fig. 94.--Road up to tomb of Ameny, Beni Hasan. presents Usertesen adoring four divinities, twenty in all. The block was 41 feet high and 7 and 4 feet at the base; but it is now overthrown and broken in two. This shows that the Fayum continued to attract attention, Amenemhat I. having begun to occupy it, and Amenemhat III. having specially developed it, as we shall notice further on. Next, at Beni Hasan (Fig. 94), is one of the fullest records of this time, in the tomb of Ameny. He was the hereditary noble of the Oryx nome, and succeeded to the princedom in the eighteenth year of Usertesen I., as his tomb is dated in the twenty-fifth year of his rule and the forty-third of the reign of the king. He records: "I followed my lord when he sailed up the river to overthrow his enemies in the four foreign lands (probably Upper and Lower Nubia, east and west). I sailed up as the son of the prince (i.e. before the ...
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