[68] Mariette, “Notice,” 6th edition, p. 221, Nos. 623–37.
[69] Mariette, “Notice,” 6th edition, pp. 212–13, No. 578; Maspero, “Guide,” p. 75, No. 396.
[70] Mariette, “Notice,” 6th edition, p. 239, No. 792.
[71] Maspero, “Letter to M. Gustave d’Eichtal on the circumstances of the history of Egypt which favoured the exodus of the Hebrew nation,” in the Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 1873, pp. 37–8.
[72] Published in La Nature, 1892, vol. lix., pp. 161–3.
[73] Major Arthur Bagnold published an account of them, with three drawings by Wallis and a few sketches, “An account of the manner in which two Colossal Statues of Rameses II at Memphis were raised,” in the Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, vol. x., p. 452 et seq.
[74] I have related many examples of this belief in spirits inhabiting the ancient monuments in “Egypt: Ancient Sites and Modern Scenes,” 1910, chap. xv., p. 155. I have collected many more, and hope one day to have an opportunity of publishing them.
[75] Published in La Nature, 1894, vol. lxiii., pp. 230–4.
[76] Extract from the Revue de l’Art ancien et moderne, 1908, vol. xxiii., pp. 401–12, and vol. xxiv., pp. 29–38.
[77] Champollion, “Notice descriptive des monuments égyptiens du Musée Charles X,” 1827, 8vo, describes the object as follows: “85. Hard wood. A woman named Naï, standing, dressed in a long fringed tunic, hair plaited. The statuette was dedicated by her brother, Phtah-Maï, auditor of justice,” pp. 68–9. Now the little figure is numbered 37; it is in case A of the “Salle civile” (first shelf).