. Egypt and the Sûdân; handbook for travellers. ered prisoners, thoseon the left being negroes,those on the Upon the two S. co-lossi are a number ofGreek, Carian, and Ph<i--nician inscriptions, ofconsiderable philologicaland historical were carved bymercenaries, who hadpenetrated thus far in thecourse of military ex-peditions. The most re-markable is a Greek in-scription on the left legof the injured colossus(PI. b), written by Greekmercenaries sent byPsammetichos II. fromElephantine to had advanced tothe second cataract andwrote this inscriptionon t
. Egypt and the Sûdân; handbook for travellers. ered prisoners, thoseon the left being negroes,those on the Upon the two S. co-lossi are a number ofGreek, Carian, and Ph<i--nician inscriptions, ofconsiderable philologicaland historical were carved bymercenaries, who hadpenetrated thus far in thecourse of military ex-peditions. The most re-markable is a Greek in-scription on the left legof the injured colossus(PI. b), written by Greekmercenaries sent byPsammetichos II. fromElephantine to had advanced tothe second cataract andwrote this inscriptionon their way back. TheEnglish translation runsas follows: — When King Psam-metichos came to wrote this,who came with Psam-metichos, son of Theocles, and proceeded via KerkisaSj far as the riverallowed of it. Potasimto led the foreigners, Amasis the Egyptians. Archon,sou of .\moibichos, and Pelekos, son ofUdamos, wrote this. — Kerkis isprobably the modern On the smoothed S. wall of the forecourt is a Stele (PI. e) of. 406 Route 30. ABU SIMBEL. Oreat the 34th year of the reign of Ramses II., commemorating the mar-riage of the Pharaoh with the daughter of the King of the Hittites,who was brought to Egypt by her father. At the top the king appearsseated between two gods beneath a canopy, while the prinre of theHittites and his daughter worship him. — The space between thesouthernmost colossus and the face of the cliff has been convertedinto a small open Court (PI. f) by the erection of a doorway. On theW. wall of the lourt is a long poetic inscription placed here byRamses II. — In the space between the northernmost colossus(PI. d) and the face of the cliff, on the \V. wall, is a large memorialinscription, also erected by Ramses II., and representing him intlie presence of Re-Harakhte. In Court / is the tomb of Major Tidswel!, a British officer who diedin 1884, during the Nile Expedition. The terrace is adjoined on the N. by an Open Court dedicatedb
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