The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . and naked of the colossi isbroken, and tlie bust ofthe statue, which musthave been detached by ?some great sliock, has fallen to the ground; the others rise to the height of 60feet, and appear to look across the Nile as if watching the wadys leading to thegold-mines. The pschent crown surmounts their foreheads, and the two ends ofthe head-dress fall behind their ears; their features are of a noble type, calmand serious; the nose slightly aquiline, the under lip projecting above a square,but rather heavy, chin. Of such a type we
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . and naked of the colossi isbroken, and tlie bust ofthe statue, which musthave been detached by ?some great sliock, has fallen to the ground; the others rise to the height of 60feet, and appear to look across the Nile as if watching the wadys leading to thegold-mines. The pschent crown surmounts their foreheads, and the two ends ofthe head-dress fall behind their ears; their features are of a noble type, calmand serious; the nose slightly aquiline, the under lip projecting above a square,but rather heavy, chin. Of such a type we may picture Eamses, after theconclusion of the peace with the Khati, in the full vigour of his manhood and Champollion, Monuments dc riiijtjpte ct de la Nidiie, vol. i. pp. 77-70, aud pis. vii. 4, ix. 1, 1*, x.,xxxviii.; Eosellini, Mon. Storicl, vol. iii. pt. 2, pp. 177-190. The general outliue of these stelai maybe distinguished in the illustration on the opposite page. Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph taken iu 1881 by Insinger aud Daniel THE INTEUKJK OF THE SIEUS OF ABU SIMBEL.
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