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Handbook to the antiquities in the British Museum : being a description of the remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian and Etruscan art preserved there, with numerous illustrations (1851)

Vaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright), 1818-1885 · London : Murray · leaf 321

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ave been of an-cient travellers. The Easternmost of the two is shown by Sir G.Wilkinson to have been the Vocal Memnon of Strabo, which wassaid every morning to emit a sound like the snapping of a harp-string when the first rays of the sun fell upon it. These colossiare about 60 feet above the… … No. 15. 304 EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES. No. 15 is the colossal Head of a King wearing the pschent, carvedin red Syenitic granite, and in its features resembling the portrait ofThothmes III. The workmanship is peculiarly good, and the wholehas been well preserved, only one ear and a small portion of the…

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