. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . Coptos, fragments of buildings with the name of Kheops. 8 Naville, Bubastis, i. pp. 3, 5, 6, 10, pis. viii., xxxii. o. Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by Emil Brugsch-Bey ; cf. Grébatjt, Le Musée Egyptien,pl. xii. The statue bears no cartouche, and considerations purely artistic cause me to attribute itto Kheops (Revue Critique, 1890, vol. ii. pp. 416, 417); it may equally well represent Dadûfrî, the6uccessor of Kheops, or Shopsiskaf, who followed Mykerinos. 8 All the details relating to the Isis of the Sphinx are furnished by a stele of the
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . Coptos, fragments of buildings with the name of Kheops. 8 Naville, Bubastis, i. pp. 3, 5, 6, 10, pis. viii., xxxii. o. Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by Emil Brugsch-Bey ; cf. Grébatjt, Le Musée Egyptien,pl. xii. The statue bears no cartouche, and considerations purely artistic cause me to attribute itto Kheops (Revue Critique, 1890, vol. ii. pp. 416, 417); it may equally well represent Dadûfrî, the6uccessor of Kheops, or Shopsiskaf, who followed Mykerinos. 8 All the details relating to the Isis of the Sphinx are furnished by a stele of the daughter ofKheops, discovered in the little temple of the XXIst dynasty, situated to the west of the Great THE G BEAT PYRAMID OF OIZEH. 3G5 opinions of the Pharaohs of the Memphite dynasties in the same way as we dorless by the positive evidence of their acts than by the size and number of theirmonuments : they measured the magnificence of Kheops by the dimensions ofhis pyramid, and all nations having followed this example, Kheops has con-. T11E TRIUMPHAL BAS-RELIEFS OF KHEOPS ON THE ROCKS OF WADY tinued to be one of the three or four names of former times which soundfamiliar to our ears. The hills of Gîzeh in his time terminated in a bare wind-swept table-land. A few solitary mastabas were scattered here and there onits surface, similar to those whose ruins still crown the hill of TheSphinx, buried even in ancient times to its shoulders, raised its head half-«ay Pyramid (Mariette, Le Sérapéam de Memphis, Masperos edition, vol. i. pp. 99,100), and preservedin the Gîzeh Museum (Mariette, Monuments divers, pi. 53). It was not a work entirely of theXXIst dynasty, as Mr. Petrie asserts (Pyramids of Gizeh, pp. 49, 65, et seq.), but the inscription,barely readable, engraved on the face of the plinth, indicates that it was remade by a king of the-Saite period, perhaps by Sabaco, in order to replace an ancient stele of the same-import which hadfallen into
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