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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 330

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able, to remove it;subsequently it was procured by Mr. Salt, from whom it came to theMuseum. The figures, which are twice repeated, are well executedand beautifully polished. Its present height is about 5 feet 6 inches.Thothmes III., who is commemorated on this monument, has beenjustly deemed one… … No, 12. EGYPTLVN SALOON. 313 to the vast public works completed or commenced by him. InNubia he erected the Temple of Semne, and two rock-excavatedchapels at Ibrim, near Ipsambul; and some of the earlier portionsof the Palace at Karnak, composing more than one-third of thatbuilding-, together with…

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