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-J Jg" 1 - ■■■I 1 I ' V 1 - ■ and columns. But the noted object ' here by far is the ruin of the colos sal syenite granite statue of Rani' | ses, the largest in Egppt (next to j the great standing colossus of Tamis, long ago cut up and ruin ed). Beautiful in colour, exceed ingly close and hard of grain, 'finished of carving, transported from Assouan, raised and over thrown in a court now in utter ruin, larger in hulk even than the twin colossi of the plain and once lifting its head some ten feet high er than they, the fallen colossus is the wonder of the world. With a i statue height of about 58 feet, and a weight of not less than 1000 tons, its face measures six and 1 | three quarter feet across, its eaj like a Syrian fortress with a facade 1 three and a half feet long, its bearing reliefs of Ramses III! breast twenty three and a half feet his enemies (the only across, its diameter of arm four of Egyptian battle-1 and three quarter teet and first WATCH THE WHITE STAR BUGGY W HKff next you Huy • Hugo, ter * Whit* Star A-Ondi Built, lk« N|hi«i ruonlof vehicle mod* in The United Rtete*. After June lit, tlO#, wr tt*e T» hulldlnA lh* WtnTE STAR mrOOY, non* but the «u**t *• A-QRADB n Whwl*, J«H Ilk* ••** Mmpk in the Waite, on exhibition by *r*ry one of our D*nl*r*. W* will pay |H4f In ooab If nay WHITE STAR Whe*t, having our private nark, I* not |n*t Ilk* tb* *anpte item IMK TOR OUR PIUTATB “ A-OR ADR' MARK ATLANTA BUOOY COMPANY. - - Atlanta, Georgia Land of Promise (TO AND FROM) By Rkv. C. O’N. Maktindau-: ARTICLE LIII. smiting I specimens I menting surviving destruction), finger three feet, its circumference while helow to the right are repre- at the elbow seventeen and a half TURKEY' (Nominally). sented the conquered princes of the Hittites, Sardinians, Sicilians, Philistines,etc.; its eighteen cham- Ancient I bers bear ' n B evidence of use as a palatial residence of the king and 38). EGYPT: To Thebes, Especially the Colossi, i t ^ e ] a( )j es 0 f theharlm.the queen’s cartouche being always blank for some reason. the Medinet Habu, the Rames- seum, Der el-Bahrl, by Kama to the Tombs of the Kings (Pharaohs), and back to Luxor. Dean Stanley declares that the Temple of Karnak is the grandest building ever raised to the glory and adoration of God, and the old est consecrated place of worship ip the world. It is great by day light, but— ‘‘If thouwouldst view Karnak aright, Go visit it by the jiale moonlight." Here we are privileged to see men engaged in the work bf exca vating amid the ruiiis, learning that important discoveries had just been made thereby. On the return from Karnak to Luxor in the deepening twilight we feel very, very tired and achy from the exertions of yesterday and today, yet the compensation for large expenditure of energy and means has been great. It is veiy hot indeed, even the bed clothes and water are warm; only the bath is cooling, and we drink mineral water for safety from.pos sible fever. On the morrow we are up by 4 o’clock and breakfast ing; then leave Luxor by boat across the Nile, and by our faith ful donkeys and their attendants ride away to the remaining ruins of oid “Hundred-Gated Thebes.” From 5 to 11 o’clock is spent in crossing the desert sands to and among its temples and tombs;early, but very desolate, no green shrub or spring of a,ny kind, at long in tervals may haps a few palms, and much volcanic rock notable. About twenty-five minutes’ ride Just beyond this Palace is a great fore court through the mid dle of which a dromos onae led to the Great Pylon of the great Tem ple of Ramses III. To the right of this court is the Temple of Thothmes III, while to the left is the much smaller Temple of Amenardus (or Ameneretis, wife of Pianki II). That of Ramses II is the chief object of interest here, its forefront sculptured over with the triumph of the Pharaoh over his enemies. Through the great pylon we pass to the first court (about 115 feet square) with cov ered way on either side, 8 circular shafts supporting the roof on the west and ; osicide columns that on the east, the inner side of the pylon continuing the scenes on the outer side, Ramses fighting with the Libyans. Coming to the second pylon we see figures and inscriptions relative to a campaign against a Syrian league.' Then a second large court surrounded by colonnades, the one at the upper end on a higher level and making a terrace, osiride columns being observable. Sacrificial scenes are represented on the walls, also triumphs over the peoples of Asia Minor and Syria, and unnamable cruelty. Beyond this is the Great Hypostyle Hall with store-cham bers for kings’ treasures, pictures of those stored being reliefed on the walls. Bombastic self-praise here abounds, as is usual with Egyptian hieroglyphs. But really Ramses the III was a great and valorous and successful monarch. Most notable are the exterior feet, its foot nearly eleven feet long by four feet ten inches in breadth, its fragments alone are stupendous, and the more so do they seem as you clamber up and over them from one part to an other; and yet there are no marks anywhere of wedge or instruments or powder having been used in its demolition, which has been attri buted to Cambyses. “Here,” as A. B. Edwatds graphically says, “snapped across at the waist and Hung helplessly back, lie a huge head and shoulders,to climb which is like climbing a rock. Yonder, amid piles of unintelligible debris, we see a great foot, and, nearer the head, parts of an enormous trunk, together with the upper halves of two huge thighs clothed in the usual thenti or striped tunic. The klaft or head-dress is also striped, and these stripes, in both instances, retain the delicate yel low color with which they were originally filled in. Ta judjje from the way in which this color was applied, one would say that the statue was tinted ‘rather than painted. The surface work, wher ever it remains, is as smooth and highly finished as the cutting of the finest gem. Even the ground of the superb cartouch, on the up per half of the arm, is elaborately polished. Finally, in the pit which it plowed out in falling, lies the great pedestal, hieroglyphed with served, its plan differing from all others in Egypt and one of the country's most striking scenes, in part excavated from the hills and partly built of fine white limestone and almost dazzling in its effect as viewed against the brilliant yellow and brown tinge of the hills at the rear. It is a hot place, too, as we find out from oersonal experience. Here are some beautiful represen tations of the queen (though many have been en.sed, and other figures substituted by successors in rule according as they wanted to be vain-glorious) and others; famous reliefs of the expedition to the Land ot Punt (qiow cabled Somali land); reliefs of ships transporting obelisks from the quarries at Asouan. Here atso in the court of a little chamber is found the only ancient Egyptian altar ex tant, so far as we know You get some idea of the parallilograinatie plan when we say we pass through a curious lower colonnade (at the end of the lower platform) in ruins (formerly twenty two col unins on either side, eleven in each row at the douhtlet), to the central court of the middle plat form; then ascend the incline plane to the upper colonnade of 22 square columns on either side, a terrace, then the upper court or platform with entrance leading back into the Sanctuary. As you look toward the last, to your right is the chamber containg the altar, while to the left the Temple ot Hathor with colonnaded court to the front thereof at end of the up per colonnade. At the extreme right of the said colonnade but be yond it is the hypostyle hall con nected at the rear with the shrine of Anubis. At the front right hand corner of the hypostyle hall commences a northern colonnade, corresponding to which, nearby at the opposite end of the upper colonnade, begins the southern colonnade. Its symmetry is plain to the observer, though we may not have made it so plain to the reader. The queen that built this “most splendid of all Temples” was masculine enough to make her monuments represent her with a false heard and refer to herself as a king! Strong character she was, was she not, reader? Yet are there not a lew women these days that are well-nigh men and doing the usual pompous titles bf Ram- , as great things as men? from the Nile we come to the j wall sculptures, illustrating cam- world-famed, time-detaced but re-1 paigns of Ramses, especially on paired, and yet intensely striking Colossi of the Plains (second only in size to the fallen one at the Ramesseum), originally monoli thic hard grit-stone and represent ing Amen-hetep III, the builder of the temple; that formerly stood behind it. The one to the south is better preserved, hut the north one the more interesting as the once “Vocal Memnon” (long ago emitting a musical sound at sun rise owing to the effect of the light rays and the character of the stone). The name, by the way, is a misnomer, the Colossi having no connection whatever with any Memnon either of mythology or the east wall, a naval battle at the mouth of the Nile and the count ing of the severed hands of the conquered people afterwards being very fine, and on the projecting wall of the first pylon’s west end a wild boar hunt with splendid de tails of marsh and river scenes. Hence we proceed to the Retries- seum, which, as one has said, “of all Theban ruins is the most cheer ful. Drenched in sunshine, the warm limestone of which it is built seems to have mellowed and turn ed golden with time. No walls enclose it. No towering pylons overshadow it. It stands high, and the air circulates freely among history. They now stand 65 feet 1 those simple and beautiful columns high, 7 feet of pedestal at base be ing covered from view. At either side of the king are 18 feet repre sentations of the monarch’s wife and mother. The length of statue leg fron. sole of foot to knee is about 20 feet, while the foot itself is 10 and a half feet long. The neck and head measure not less than ten and a half feet. Pedestal and legs are adorned with many inscriptions from the long ago. Ali about them are cu tivated lands, and nearby we spend some time watching a sakieh (water- wheel) at work. From here we go to Medmct There are not many Egyptian ruins in which one can talk and be merry; but in the Ramesseum one may thoroughly enjoy the passing hour." As these words would in dicate, it is much ruined, yet not so much but its symmetry of plan may be discerned. Like the Med inet Habu Temple the Ramesseum seems to have been a sqnerary monument to his own memory erected by Ramses III while aiive, and in later times called “the Memnomum” and “Tomb of Osy- mandyas.” Here we se^ the ruin of a great pylon (220 feet broad), of a second court, of a large hypo eses Mer-Amen. Diodorus,know-1 ing nothing of Ranleses or his | style, interprets the inscription af ter his own fanciful fashion: ‘I am Osymandias, king of kings. If any would know how great I am and where I lie let him excel me in any of my works.’ " We cannot leaye the Ramesseum without calling attention;to the rich astronomical decorations of the roof on passing through three colonnaded halls into a fourth and smaller one with eighty papyrus- bud columns and walls constructed of “hard stone/’ where in all likeli hood were deposited the books of the god of learning, Thoth, the li brary made famous by Diodorus. And on the south wall of the Hypostyle Hall (in which are now but 30 of the original 48 columns, the nave columns measuring 32 and a half feet high by 21 and a fourth feet in circumference; is found an interesting representa tion of the besieging and scaling of Zapur or “Dapul in the land of the Amorites," most likely inci dental to the great Hittite war,and in which the sons of Ramses took part. Proceeding about northeastward from the Raemesseum (where once stood some six temples be side the great central one) we are not long in reaching the uique Temple of Queen Hat-shepsu (Mait-ka-Ra), or, as it is some times called, “Der El-Bahri,’’ meaning ‘‘the Northern Convents” from the Christian colony once here. It is built on quite an ori ginal plan, and on level terraces cut out of the mountain-side and reached by sloping medial planes, Not far away are the tombs of Shekh Abd El-Kurna. In the distance off to the left may he found the ruins of the Temple of Kurna, built by Seti I. in honor of his father Ramses I, and com pleted by his son, Rameses II., and rededicated to his father, Seti I. It.is h steep aqd hot climb, hut much shorter way, to dimly the hills at the back ot the Temple of Queen Hat-shepsu and go over them to the Tombs of the Kings on the other side, called by the Arabs "Biban el-Moluk,” or “Gates of the Kings," in a weird, winding, desolate, rocky valley. We pre ferred to ride on our donkeys about four miles around and through the gorges of the Libyan Hills (really mountains,) as desert as the Sahara of which it is but a part, save for little flowering plants to be seen here and there before the sun is high, but soon wither ing up before the scorching rays of light, Itis.no trouble to see bivalve fossils and curious dumb bell lock, formations all thtough this region. 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Stop-over allowed at Washington and ly chiselled corridors into the tomb- chambers of Rameses IV., Seti I., and Amenophis II.: mere samples of a score or more such tombs Hultimore. For further information epply to hereabouts, representing the great Ticket Agent, or address F. M. Tliomp- w ith I son, Traveling Passenger Agent;.!. P. the first pylon being formerly reached from the plain through a dromos of sphinxes, which togeth er with the obelisks before the en- Habu with its very interesting style hkil and twb small hypostyle j trance have entirely disappeared, group of temples: A great building halls, with interesting inscriptions I What remains is pretty well pre- i dynasties of ancient Egypt their glorious days, their walls and j side-rooms literally covered with 1 finely colored hieroglyphs repre- sentirig “not as iri ihe earlier tombs, scenes of every flay life, bui religious scenes and texts from ‘the Book of the Dead,’ many ot obscure meaning which the great est Egyptologists cannot yet iri terpret.” In no case are visitors to the tombs allowed to carry in can- Billups,General Passenger Agent; Olios. A. Wickeislittin, President and General Manager, Atlanta, Ga, 2t (Continued 011 page 7 ) Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy Aids Nature. Medicines that aid nature are always most effectual. 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