. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . me of the divine reptile Petesûkhos, the great god, is mentioned (Wilcken, DerLabyrintherhauer Petesulclios, in the Zeitschrift, 1886, p. 136). 3 Herodotus, ii. 69 ; cf. Wiedemann, Eérodots Zweites Buck, pp. 289-304.* Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by Golénischeff. 5 Caristie, Description de lObélisque de Begyg, auprès de lancienne Crocodilopolis, in theDescription de VEgypte, vol. iv. pp. 517-520. The obelisk has been reproduced in the Description delEgypte, Ant., iv. pi. lxxi., in Burton, Excerpta Hieroglyphica, pi. xxix., and in Lepsius,
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . me of the divine reptile Petesûkhos, the great god, is mentioned (Wilcken, DerLabyrintherhauer Petesulclios, in the Zeitschrift, 1886, p. 136). 3 Herodotus, ii. 69 ; cf. Wiedemann, Eérodots Zweites Buck, pp. 289-304.* Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by Golénischeff. 5 Caristie, Description de lObélisque de Begyg, auprès de lancienne Crocodilopolis, in theDescription de VEgypte, vol. iv. pp. 517-520. The obelisk has been reproduced in the Description delEgypte, Ant., iv. pi. lxxi., in Burton, Excerpta Hieroglyphica, pi. xxix., and in Lepsius, Denhm.,ii. 119. TEE FIELDS AND WATERS OF TEE FA YUM. 513 Near to Biahmû there was an old temple which had become ruinous :1Amenemhâît III. repaired it, and erected in front of it two of those colossalstatues which the Egyptians were wont to place like sentinels at their gates, toward off baleful influences and evil spirits. The colossi at Biahmû were of redsand-stone, and were seated on high limestone pedestals, placed at the end of a. THE RUINED 1EDESTAL OF ONE OP THE COLOSSI OF BIAHMÙ. rectangular court ; the temple walls hid the lower part of the pedestals, sothat the colossi appeared to tower above a great platform which sloped gentlyaway from them on all Herodotus, who saw them from a distanceat the time of the inundation, believed that they crowned the summits oftwo pyramids rising out of the middle of a Near Illahun, QueenSovkûnofriûri herself has left a few traces of her short rei« o 1 The existence of this temple, the foundation of which may date back to the Heracleopolitan orMemphite dynasties, is proved by a fragment of inscription (Pétrie, Haicara, Biahmû and Arsinoe,pl. xxvii. 1), in which King Amenemhâît III. declares that he found the building falling into ruins,and that he ordered that it should either be restored or rebuilt. 2 Drawn by Faucber-Gudin, after Major Brown (cf. The Fayûm and Lake Mœris, pl. xxii.). 3 The ruins
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