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Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt

CHAPTER II
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108 .-- Obelisk of Usertesen I., of Heliopolis.] Nor was this all.

Each part of the temple had its accessory decoration and its furniture.

The outer faces of the pylons were ornamented, not only with the masts and streamers before mentioned, but with statues and obelisks.
The statues, four or six in number, were of limestone, granite, or sandstone.

They invariably represented the royal founder, and were sometimes of prodigious size.

The two Memnons seated at the entrance of the temple of Amenhotep III., at Thebes, measured about fifty feet in height.
The colossal Rameses II.


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