. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. es much in importance. The statues on the outside, standing three to the rightand three to the left of the door, are somewhat broken andmutilated. They are thirty feet high and represent Rame-ses II and his queen, Nefertari. Our engraving on thesucceeding page shows the face of the one woman amongall others upon whom the king set his love. Her statue isfull of graceful beauty and the full lips, well-formed chinand nose and rounded cheek show that the queen was notwithout pers
. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. es much in importance. The statues on the outside, standing three to the rightand three to the left of the door, are somewhat broken andmutilated. They are thirty feet high and represent Rame-ses II and his queen, Nefertari. Our engraving on thesucceeding page shows the face of the one woman amongall others upon whom the king set his love. Her statue isfull of graceful beauty and the full lips, well-formed chinand nose and rounded cheek show that the queen was notwithout personal attractions. An inscription on the out-side sets forth that Rameses, the strong in Truth, the be-loved of Ammon, made this divine abode for his royal wifeNefertari, whom he loves. Inside of the temple anotherinscription states that the queen, the royal wife who loveshim, constructed for him this abode in the mountain of purewaters. These inscriptions show that the Pharaoh of the op-pression had also a tender side to his nature and that evenhuman love softens the hard, stony heart. One author,* * Miss WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. 3I3 writing of the smaller temple at Abou Simbel, says: Onevery pillar, in every act of worship pictured on the walls,even in the sanctuary, we find the names of Rameses andNefertari coupled and inseparable. In this double dedi-cation, and in the unwonted tenderness of style, one seemsto detect traces of some event, perhaps of some anniversa-ry, the particulars of which are lost forever. It may havebeen a meeting; it may have been a parting; it may havebeen a prayer answered, or a vow fulfilled. We see at allevents that Rameses and Nefertari desired to leave behindthem an imperishable record of the affection which unitedthem on earth, and which they hoped would reunite themin Amenti. What more do we need to know? We seethat the queen was fair; that the king was in his divine the rest; and the poetry of the place at least isours. Ev
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