Kôm-Omboo. "The hill of Omboo." The modern name of the Egyptian
Kossêr. "Small castle." A town in Egypt situated on the Red Sea, to which a road led in ancient times from Coptos by way of Hammamât. The Greeks called it Leukos-Limen, "the white harbor". [23] [88]
Kuft. The modern name of Coptos, which see. [88]
Labyrinth. The grand palace of Amenemhât III. in the Fayoom, described by the Greek geographer Strabo. At one corner of it was the Pyramid of Howara, which is built of brick. The name Labyrinth seems to be derived from the Egyptian
Lateran Obelisk. The largest of all the erect obelisks, in front of the church of St. Giovanni in Laterano, in Rome. It was ordered to be made by Thothmes III., but was completed by Thothmes IV., who added the outer vertical lines and erected the obelisk in front of the temple of Amen in Thebes. It was removed to Alexandria by Constantine the Great, but was taken to Rome by Constantius in 357. After its fall it was re-erected by Sixtus V. in 1588. [9] [20] [23] [25]
Lepsius, Richard K. The so-called "father of Egyptology", the teacher of the great Egyptologists of the present day. His greatest work was the Denkmäler aus Ægypten und Æthiopien. He was born Dec. 23, 1810, and died July 10, 1884. [4] [5] [36] [37]
Lepsius Obelisk. A small obelisk discovered by Lepsius in a tomb at Gizeh in 1843. It is the smallest obelisk known and at present in the Berlin Museum. [4] [10]
Libyan Desert. The large tract of barren country to the west of Egypt, containing seven oases (see under El-Khargeh). [59] [90]