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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 323

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here, accordingly, he set to work. On the secondday he came upon this statue of Amenoph III., and on subsequent days hemet with several other lion-headed statues (Pasht). Belzoni enters intosome speculations about this edifice having been the real Memnonium, whichwould have been probable enough had… … No. 21. 306 EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES. miniature representation of the great Memnon, and such as it musthave appeared when entire. It is a representation of Amenophis-Memnon, or Amenoph III. Its material is black granite, changingin one place to red syenite, with large white crystals of feldspardiffused…

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