A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 2 (of 2)

by Georges Perrot; Charles Chipiez

[214] Notice du Musée de Boulak, No. 869. Our draughtsman has not thought it necessary to reproduce the hieroglyphs engraved upon the plinth.

[215] Notice du Musée de Boulak, No. 1.

[216] Notice du Musée de Boulak, No. 2.

[217] Devéria, Lettre à M. Aug. Mariette, p. 258.—Pierret, Catalogue de la Salle Historique, No. 6.

[218] M. Fr. Lenormant (Bulletino della Commissione Archeologica di Roma, fifth year, January to June, 1877) believes that he has discovered in one of the Roman museums another monument belonging to the same period and to the same artistic group.

[219] Lettres à M. de Rougé sur les Fouilles de Tanis, p. 105. (Revue Archéologique.)

[220] Mariette, Notice du Musée, p. 259.—Ebers, Ægypten, vol. i. p. 108.

[221] Description de l'Égypte, Antiquités, vol. ii. p. 182.

[222] Description, Antiquités, vol. ii. p. 105.

[223] Ch. Blanc, Voyage dans la Haute-Égypte, p. 208. It has been calculated that this colossus weighed about 1220 tons.