. The Saturday magazine . alf feet square; both these and the walls are coveredwith hieroglyphics, of the same kind as those of the smallertemple. From this there is a succession of chambers of va-rious sizes, most of them containing sculptures and inscrip-tions ; but not requiring any particular description. Theexterior of this temple is magnificent; it is one hundredand seventeen feet wide and eighty-six feet high; the dooris twenty feet high. There are four enormous sittingcolossi, the largest in Egypt or Nubia, except the greatSphinx at the Pyramids, being about two-thirds the size ofthis
. The Saturday magazine . alf feet square; both these and the walls are coveredwith hieroglyphics, of the same kind as those of the smallertemple. From this there is a succession of chambers of va-rious sizes, most of them containing sculptures and inscrip-tions ; but not requiring any particular description. Theexterior of this temple is magnificent; it is one hundredand seventeen feet wide and eighty-six feet high; the dooris twenty feet high. There are four enormous sittingcolossi, the largest in Egypt or Nubia, except the greatSphinx at the Pyramids, being about two-thirds the size ofthis latter: from the shoulder to the elbow they measurefifteen feet six inches; the face is seven feet long, andacross the shoulders twenty-five feet; their height, exclu- t This temple, if it be a temple, was dedicated to Hathor (orVenus), by Nofre Ari, consort of Rhamses the Great rSesostris).The colossi are supposed to represent that prince and his queen,with their children at their feet. 64—2 2623 THE SATURDAY INTERIOR OF THE TEMPLE AT IBSAMBAL. sive of their caps of fourteen feet, is fifty one feet. Twoare only visible, one being still buried in the sand, and theother, near the door, is half fallen down, and is alsoburied. On the top of the door is a colossal figure withthe hawks head, twenty feet high, with an hieroglyphicfigure on each side. On the top of the temple is a cornicewith hieroglyphics, with a row of twenty-one sittingmonkeys, eight feet high, and six feet across the shoulders. The heat in the interior of the temple is so great*, thatthe party found it impossible to draw, the perspiration fromtheir faces falling on the paper and spoihng it. Theyfound the figures of two lions with hawks heads, the bodiesas large as life, a small sitting figure, and some copper-work belonging to the doors, in the temple. Subsequent examination has led to the conclusion thatthe four colossi are portraits of Rhamses (Sesostris), and * According to Champollion, the thermom
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