. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ûlâa (Pétrie, A Season in Egypt, No. 310), inscribed on the rocks ofElephantine, are the record of a visit which this prince paid to Syenê, probably on his return fromsome raid ; many similar inscriptions of Pharaohs of the XIIth dynasty were inscribed in analogouscircumstances. Nûbkhopirrî Antûf boasted of having worsted the Amû and the negroes (Birch-Chabas, Le Papyrus Abhott, in tho Revue Archéologique, 1st series, vol. xvii. pp. 267, 268). On one ofthe rocks of the island of Konosso, Monthotpû Nibhotpûrî sculptured a scene of offerings in wh
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ûlâa (Pétrie, A Season in Egypt, No. 310), inscribed on the rocks ofElephantine, are the record of a visit which this prince paid to Syenê, probably on his return fromsome raid ; many similar inscriptions of Pharaohs of the XIIth dynasty were inscribed in analogouscircumstances. Nûbkhopirrî Antûf boasted of having worsted the Amû and the negroes (Birch-Chabas, Le Papyrus Abhott, in tho Revue Archéologique, 1st series, vol. xvii. pp. 267, 268). On one ofthe rocks of the island of Konosso, Monthotpû Nibhotpûrî sculptured a scene of offerings in whichthe gods are represented as granting him victory over all peoples (Champollion, Monuments deVEgypte et de la Nubie, pl. ccevi. 3; Lepsius, Denkm , ii. 150 b). Among the ruins of the templewhich he built at Gebelên, is a scene in which he is presenting files of prisoners from differentcountries to the Theban gods (Daressy, Notes et Remarques, § xxxii. and Ixxxvii., in the Recueil deTravaux, vol. xiv. p. 26, and vol. xvi. p. 42).. THE BRICK PYRAMID OF ANtOfÂA, AT 4G0 TEE FIRST TEEBAN EMPIRE. of their building are found at Koptos,1 Gebelên, El-Kab,2 and itself bas been too often overthrown since that time for any tracesof work of the XIth dynasty kings in the temple of Amon to be distinguishable ; but her necropolis is still full of their eternal homes, stretchingin lines across the plain, opposite Karnak, at Drah abû1-Neggah, andon the northern slopes of the valley of Deir-el-Baharî. Some were ex-cavated in the mountain-side, and presented a square façade of dressed stone,surmounted by a pointed roof in the shape of a Others were truepyramids, sometimes having a pair of obelisks in front of them, as well asa None of them attained to the dimensions of the Memphitetombs ; for, with only its own resources at command, the kingdom of thesouth could not build monuments to compete with those whose constructionhad taxed the
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