Identifier: struggleofnation00maspuoft (find matches)
Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Monumenti Sloriei,vol. iii. pt. 2, pp. 2r)l)-263; and in I-epsius, Denkm., iii. 14G d. Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograpli by Beato. Chajipollion, Monuments de V&jijpU-, etc., vol. i. p. 290; Rosellint, Monumenti Stortci, vol. iii.pt. 2, pp. 282, 283. See pp. 3S2, 3S3 of tlie present work for what ia Icnown about tliia chapel. 420 THE REACTION AGAINST EGYPT. of the giants of Amenothes. Did these colossal statues stimulate his spirit ofemulation to do something yet more marvellous ? He erected here, at any rate,a still more colossal figure. The earthquake which shattered Memnon broughtit to the ground, and fragments of it still strew the soil where they fell somenineteen centuries ago. There are so many of them that the spectator wouldthink himself in tlie middle of a granite quarry.^ The portions forming the breast, arms, and thighs arein detached pieces, but theyare still recognisable wherethey lie close to each other.The head has lost nothingof its characteristic expres-
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THE REMAIKS OF THE COLOSSAL STATUE OP RAMSES 11. AT THE RAMESSEOM. sion, and its proportions are so enormous, that a man could sleep crouchedup in the hollow of one of its ears as if on a sofa. Behind the courtoverlooked by this colo.ssal statue lay a second court, surrounded by a row ofsquare pillars, each having a figure of Osiris attached to it. The god isrepresented as a mummy, the swathings throwing the body and limbs intorelief. His hands are freed from the bandages and are crossed on the breast,ixnd hold respectively the flail and crook; the smiling face is surmounted by an■enormous head-dress. The sanctuary with the buildings attached to it hasperished, but enormous brick structures extend round the ruins, forming anenclosure of storehouses. Here the priests of the double were accustomedto dwell with their wives and slaves, aud here they stored up the products of This is the actual expreasion employed by Jollois-Devilliers, Descripiicn du tcmheau dOsymati-■dyas, (l€sitjn

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