[36]. Mr. Petrie says, p. 117: “All the chambers of this pyramid are entirely hewn in the rock.”
[37]. ‘Medum,’ by M. Flinders Petrie. D. Nutt, London, 1892.
[38]. Diodorus, i. 51.
[39]. M. Mariette’s discoveries in these tombs were only in progress at the time of his death: but his manuscript notes and drawings of the hieroglyphics and figures have since been published in facsimile under the title of ‘Les Mastabas de l’Ancienne Empire’ Paris 1889. They are, however, incomplete; some of the plates referred to could not be found, and M. Maspero, who edited the work, has unfortunately given no preface of his own, which might have rendered them more intelligible. At present no sufficient data exist to enable others to realise and verify the extraordinary revelation it presents to us. It is 2000 years older, and infinitely more varied and vivid, than the Assyrian pictures which recently excited so much interest.
[40]. The false door is a niche in the side of the mastaba, the back of which is carved in imitation of a wooden door.
[41]. Lucian, ‘De Syria Dea,’ ed. Reetzin, tom. iii. p. 451, alludes to the fact of the old temples of the Egyptians having no images.
[42]. The roof slabs are gone, but the lower portions of the slits are still uninjured.
[43]. The plan and particulars relating to this temple are taken from Mr. W. M. Petrie’s work before referred to.
[44]. The tablet discovered at Gizeh, in which Khufu, the builder of the Great Pyramid, is recorded to have made some repairs to the Sphinx, is stated by Mr. Petrie to be a forgery of the 20th dynasty, and his reasons are given in section 118 of his work.
[45]. Lepsius, ‘Denkmaler,’ Abt. ii. pls. 115, 116.