Materia Hieroglyphica: Containing the Egyptian Pantheon and the Succession of the Pharaohs from the Earliest Times to the Conquest of Alexander, and Other Hieroglyphical Subjects
Materia Hieroglyphica: Containing the Egyptian Pantheon and the Succession of the Pharaohs from the Earliest Times to the Conquest of Alexander, and Other Hieroglyphical Subjects
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. 1828 Excerpt: ...one yet opened in the valley of the kings at Thebes; as that of his successor (2) is the most splendid, and richly sculptured; though inferior in elegance of design, and general plan, to the supposed tomb of Memnon. Rameses was succeeded by his son; whose phoneticname (3) still remains doubtful. He is called beloved of ...
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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. 1828 Excerpt: ...one yet opened in the valley of the kings at Thebes; as that of his successor (2) is the most splendid, and richly sculptured; though inferior in elegance of design, and general plan, to the supposed tomb of Memnon. Rameses was succeeded by his son; whose phoneticname (3) still remains doubtful. He is called beloved of (1) Lord l'nidhoc aud Major Felix were the first who obserred that these were the tombs of the queens. (2) Opened by Belzoni. (3) I have already proved in a former paper, that a celebrated savant wis wrong, in making two kings, from the name of the father of Amunmai Rameses. Amun and Pthah, and the letter N, or waving line, may refer either to the word of, in beloved of Amun, (of which I have found several instances), or form part of the name itself; as Amumnai Osirien, Oeen, or Aien. The reign of this monarch was remarkable for the successes gained, probably by the king in person, in the war of the East. (4) Having led a considerable force of infantry and chariots into the heart of their country, he attacked and took a great number of fortified places, defended by lofty walls, and surrounded by water; neither the strength of these fortresses, nor the obstacles thrown in his way by the enemy, who drove off their herds, and felled the trees, in the woody country he had to pass, to impede the passage of his chariots, seems to have arrested his progress, and it was not until he had laid waste a great part of the country, and secured a considerable number of prisoners, to adorn his triumph, that he led back his conquering legions to the banks of the Nile. Such are the subjects on the walls of the great temple of Karnak, which was indebted to him for the magnificent colonnade added by his order, and for some of the most elegant of the sculptures t...
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