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Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia, by Richard Lepsius. Volume I, Lower Egypt and Memphis. (Translated from the 1897 German edition, edited by Kurt Sethe).
[Part 2]
San (Tanis) [1] September 29, 1845 (p.5)
Site plan of the ruins, LD I 55-3 (fig.8).
Fig.8: site plan of Tanis (from DM vol. 1, plate 55-3).
Next to the right
calf of a statue of Ramesses is the inscription LD III 259 c, on the
right upper arm it is lightly engraved: (fig.9-2)
Inscription from an obelisk, LD III 142 f (fig.9-1).
Brick with the stamp of Puisennes [a] LD III 255d, now in Berlin No. 1552 (fig.0-3).
The head of the god can be seen on the stucco of a [granite] obelisk (fig.xx) [2]
Fig.9: inscriptions from Tanis:
1. Obelisk (DM I, plate 142f )
2. Inscription on statue of Ramesses II (DM I, plate 259 c).
3. stamp on brick of Puisennes (DM I, plate 255 d).
Behbet [4] September 26, 1845 (p.5).
Reliefs with inscription: LD III 287b (fig.10-1).
The head of Necht-har-hebe [b] is from a block in the temple. IV 8 b (fig.10-2). [There is a paper impression of another block with the head of the same king.]
Relief with inscription; LD III 301, 83 (fig.10-3).
Fig. 10: Behbet: 1. Reliefs with inscription (DM III, plate 287 b). 2: relief of head of Necht-har-hebe (DM III, plate 83). 3: Relief with inscription (DM IV, plate 8b)
Heliopolis 9 April 1843 (p.5)
Fig.11: View of Heliopolis from west. (DM I, plate 56-2)
On
the way to the ruins of Heliopolis in Matarich there is a limestone
block above a tree with the name of Ramesses II: (fig.13-1)
View of Heliopolis from W. LD I 56-2. (fig.11). Site plan of the ruins. LD I 55 (fig.12)
Fig.12: site plan of Heliopolis (DM Vol.I, plate 55-2.)
In
front of the door of the garden of Boghos Bey, where the obelisk
stands, there is a granite block, two sides of which bear the names of
the same king and show him sacrificing himself: (fig.13-4)
[This
block is now at Berlin No. 2084. The two sides a and b recede slightly
towards the top, it can be concluded from this that it was the corner
part of a small chapel. The block appears to have later served as a
threshold, as the side b is very heavily worn. -- The color of the granite is black.](p.6)
Vesgl. on a block at the
northwestern gate of the old ramparts [1]. So the king built the temple
here. - At the same gate there are also some shapeless sandstone
blocks, which are perhaps the remains of a large sphinx.
Fig.13: Inscriptions from Heliopolis.
The
obelisk (fig.14-1) has now become almost completely illegible due to the bees that
have nested in the hieroglyphs. LD II 118 h [2]. According to Laurin's
gift, it was not given to the Pope.
Fig.14: Heliopolis: 1) Obelisk from 12th dynasty (DM II, plate 118 h); 2,3) stela from 47th year of Thuthmosis III (DM III, plate 29b-c).
I bought a limestone stele
from the 47th year of Thuthmosis III [c] (fig.14-2,3), which was found in Heliopolis, in
the presence of Prince Albrecht of Prussia (in April 1843). LD III 29b (Berlin No. 1634).
Footnotes:
1. The notebook 12 X, in which Lepsius made his comments about San [Tanis], was not available to us.
2. based on a paper impression 20.
3. cf. RJH 76.
4. Notebook 12 X with the notes about Behbet could not be used by us.
a. Puisennes [Psusennes] Psusennes I (r. 1047-1001) was the third king of the 21st Dynasty, based in Tanis, where his intact tomb has been found. Psusennes II was last king of the 21st Dynasty (r. 967-943 BC).
b. Necht-har-hebe (Necht-her-hebe) also known as Amyrtseus, reigned in the 28th Dynasty.
c.
Thuthmosis III [Thutmose] was the 6th king of the 18th Dynasty,
reigning from 1458-1425 BC. His aunt and stepmother, Hatshepsut,
co-reigned with him for a period.
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