[224] Gabriel Charmes, La Réorganisation du Musée de Boulak.
[225] Mariette, Notices du Musée, Nos. 3 and 4.
[226] The head of Amenophis III. may be recognized in the bas-relief reproduced in our Fig. 33, Vol. I. The fine profile and large well-opened eye strongly resemble those of the London statue.
[227] Mariette, Voyage dans la Haute-Égypte, vol. ii. p. 31.
[228] G. Charmes, De la Réorganisation du Musée de Boulak.
[229] Denkmæler, vol. vi. plates 91-111. The curious ugliness of this king is most clearly shown in plate 109.
[230] Mariette, Bulletin Archéologique de l'Athenæum Français, 1855, p. 57.
[231] Mariette, Notice du Musée, No. 902, and Dayr-el-Bahari, plates.
[232] Mariette, Dayr-el-Bahari, p. 30, believed that Punt was in Africa, probably in the region of the Somali. He quotes various passages from the writings of modern travellers to show that this strange obesity is rather an African than an Arabian characteristic. See Speke's description of the favourite wife of Vouazerou, Discovery of the Source of the Nile, chap. viii., and Schweinfurth's account of the Bongo women, Heart of Africa (3rd edition) pp. 136 and 137.
[233] Mariette, Itinéraire, p. 246.