The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . been done with the help of fragmentsof other statues, in which the details here lost were in a good state of presiTvalion. • St(de of the second year nf Thiiluiosis 11., on the rocks at Assuan, LeisilS, ])enl:in., iii. 10 a;.1. de Moucan, Catalogue (hs Monuments et Inscriptions, vol, i. pp. 3,4, It was probably from thisexpedition that the Pharaoh brought back the list of African names published by Naville, TroisIntcriplioni de la reine Udtshepti, in the Uecucil de Tramux, vol. xviii, pp. .si-92. 240 THE EIGHTEENTH THEBAN DYNASTY. place
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . been done with the help of fragmentsof other statues, in which the details here lost were in a good state of presiTvalion. • St(de of the second year nf Thiiluiosis 11., on the rocks at Assuan, LeisilS, ])enl:in., iii. 10 a;.1. de Moucan, Catalogue (hs Monuments et Inscriptions, vol, i. pp. 3,4, It was probably from thisexpedition that the Pharaoh brought back the list of African names published by Naville, TroisIntcriplioni de la reine Udtshepti, in the Uecucil de Tramux, vol. xviii, pp. .si-92. 240 THE EIGHTEENTH THEBAN DYNASTY. place a spot on the left bank of the Nile at Thebes, where tlie cultivated landjoined the desert, close to the pyramids built by their predecessors.^ Probably,after the burial of Amenothes, the space was fully occupied, for Thutmosis to seek his buryiug-ground some way up the ravine, the mouth of whichwas blocked by their monuments. The Libyan chain here forms a kind ofamphitheatre of vertical cliff;), which descend to within some ninety feet of the. THE AMPHITHEATRE AT DEIU EL-BAHARI, AS IT APPEAEED BEFORE NAVILLEs EXCAVATIONS.^ valley, where a sloping mass of detritus connects them by a gentle declivitywith the plain. The great lords and the queens in the times of the Antufs andthe Usirtasens had taken possession of this spot, but their chapels were by thisperiod iu ruins, and their tombs almost all lay buried under the waves of sandwhich the wind from the desert drives perpetually over the summit of the cliffs.*This site was seized on by the architects of Thutmosis, who laid there thefoundations of a building which was destined to be unique in the world. Itsground plan consisted of an avenue of sphinxes, starting from the plain andrunning between the tombs till it reached a large courtyard, terminated on thewest by a colonnade, which was supported by a double row of pillars. Above Cf. what is said with regard to the necropolis where the Pharaohs of previous dynasties were
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