Those which he erected in advance of his memorial chapel on the left bank of the Nile in Western Thebes, one of which is the Vocal Memnon of the classic writers, sit fifty feet high.

Each was carved from a single block of sandstone, and they are as elaborately finished as though they were of ordinary size.

The avenues of sphinxes which this Pharaoh marshalled before the temples of Luxor and Karnak do not come to an end at fifty or a hundred yards from the gateway, but are prolonged for great distances.

In one avenue, they have the human head upon the lion's body; in another, they are fashioned in the semblance of kneeling rams.

Khuenaten, the revolutionary successor of Amenhotep III., far from discouraging this movement, did what he could to promote it.
Never, perhaps, were Egyptian sculptors more unrestricted than by him at Tell el Amarna.