[154] Monuments Divers, pl. 50.
[155] Description, Antiquites, vol. ii. pp. 371-373. In our view of Luxor on page 345 we have restored the base of the larger obelisk after that belonging to the one now at Paris. We were without any other means of ascertaining its form.
[156] Precis sur les Pyramidions de Bronze doré Employés par les Anciens Égyptiens comme couronnement de quelques-uns de leurs Obélisques, etc. J. J. Hittorf, 8vo, 1836.
[157] Abd-al-latif, Relation de l'Égypte; French translation by Silvestre de Sacy, published in 4to, in 1810, p. 181.—Ed.
[158] Mariette, Itinéraire de la Haute-Égypte, third edition, p. 142.
[159] Description, Antiquités, vol. ii. p. 369.—Charles Blanc, Voyage dans la Haute-Égypte, p. 150.
[160] For an interesting description of the present state and curious situation of this obelisk, see The Land of Khemi, by Laurence Oliphant, pp. 98-100, (Blackwood. 1882).—Ed.
[161] Denkmæler, part ii. pl. 119.
[162] Description, Antiquités, ch. 23.—M. Edouard Naville has recently (June 16, 1882) published in the Journal de Genève an account of a visit to these ruins, during which he counted the fragments of no less than fourteen obelisks, some of them of extraordinary size.—Ed.
[163] The sculptor who made the two famous colossi of Amenophis III. had the same name as his master, Amenhotep. (Brugsch, History, 1st edition, vol. i. pp. 425-6). Iritesen, who worked for Menthouthotep II. in the time of the first Theban Empire, was a worker in stone, gold, silver, ivory, and ebony. He held a place, he tells us, at the bottom of the king's heart, and was his joy from morning till night. (Maspero, la Stèle C. 14 du Louvre, in the Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology, vol. v. part ii. 1877.)