mien, Plate 5th ; a circumstance which removes the doubt, that might otherwise arise, from the want of the female termination in the name ; the father's is found on a square seal, in the possession of Mr Legh. There is another copy of the inscription of Mr Bullock's scarabreus, on a scarabteus belonging to Mr Palin, which had long been used by a Greek priest at Athens, for stamping the paschal bread. (Dubois, Pierres Gravees, Par. 1817, PL V. N. 5.) The beautiful head, lately brought from the Memnonium to the British Museum, has part of the father's name remaining, which not appear to be that of the father of Memnon, though the first three characters are the same; but the fourth is the pedestal representing Plithah ; and a similar name is found on some other colossal statues and obelisca remaining in Egypt, as well as on a smaller figure of red granite, brought by Mr Hamil ton from Elephantine.
39. In the principal name on the obelisc at Kar nak, the final scale of the name of Memnon is ex changed for a pair of arms stretched upwards; a variation whici may be expressed by calling it Amenuses or dmenses, from SHESH, a pair. The father's name is also a little like that of Tithous ; but, that the difference is constant, may be inferred from its separate occurrence on a seal brought home by Mr Legh, a lion's head making a part of it in both instances. The true name and date of this personage must be considered as wholly unknown ; though the resemblance of the name to Memnon makes it convenient to place them together. In Mr Boughton's minute golden image, engraved in the Archreologia, the name appears to be the same, but with the synonymous substitution of the hatchet for the judge.
40, 41. The obelisc at Heliopolis has every mark of considerable antiquity, and the shortness and sim plicity of its inscription is appropriate to a remote period. Pliny says, that Mitres or Mestires first erected obeliscs at Heliopolis ; he also mentions So this,,and apparently Ramesses, as having left similar monuments of their magnificence in the same place. The principal name on the obelisc now remaining at Matareah may also be observed in several other in scriptions, but with the substitution of two other names for that of the father; so that the name of the eon must probably have belonged to many different indivi duals; a circumstance which, as well as the sounds belonging to the different characters, agrees very well with Ramesses, for we have RE, " the sun, ices, " a birth," and suasu, " a so that we may venture to call it Remesses; and we may take Heron for the father of the first Remesses, from Hermapion though it is possible that be may be the Armais of Ma netho; but we have scarcely sufficient evidence to ap propriate to him that name. Another Remesses seems
to have been a son of Sesostris; a third Ramesses follows Ammenephthes in Manetho, and agrees with the Rhampsinitus of Herodotus, and the Semphis of Diodorus, who is mentioned as the successor of Pro teus ; and this may, perhaps, have been the Re.' messes of the frizes of Montagu and 'icoroni (Hierogi. 7 Ou. 9 If), who seems, from the resem.
blame of the different parts of the work, to have been nearly contemporary with Sesostris. (Hierogl.
7 H. I.) There is also another Remesses on the Lions at the fountain of Aqua Felice, near the baths of Diocletian at Rome, the name of whose father is a little like the name supposed to belong to Arsine, N. 60.
42•48. The obelisc erected by Augustus in the Campus Martins, is said, by Pliny, to have been the work of Sesostris; and there are sufficient docu ments of its identity with that which had long re mained buried near the Monte Citorio, and of which figures have been given by Zoega and others. The inscription was supposed, in the time of Pliny, to contain a compendium of the physical and philoso phical learning of the Egyptians; but, in order to make this opinion credible, it would be necessary to admit that the princes of earlier days entertained very different ideas from those which have since been prevalent, respecting the comparative import ance of the abstract sciences, and of national pros perity, and martial glory. If Sesostrie was the eon of Amenophia, he cannot have been the reigning king mentioned in this obelisc ; but it may safely be attributed to Pheron the son of Sesostris, who, ac cording to Herodotus, erected two obeliscs ; , and the occurrence of the name of Sesostris, as the father, may be considered as sufficiently conformable to the testimony of Pliny. The same names are found, with a slight variation, on a small statue of basalt, very highly finished, now standing In the British Museum; and Denon has copied them from an in scription in the Memnonium. (P1. 118.) 44. Nuncoreru, according to Diodorus, was an other son of Sesostris; his name occurs also in Pliny, and we may consider him as the son of Sesostris mentioned in Mr Montagu's frises. The name is also found at Philae, and, with a slight variation, on an altar of basalt, figured by Caylus (Rec. I. Pl. 19), now in the king's library at Paris. The remains of the same name may also be observed on a block, apparently of white sandstone, in the British Mu seum, which is figured by Norden, in its old situa tion, as a part of the foundations of Pompey's Pillar at Alexandria, and it occurs on a fragment of a statue brought by Mr Hamilton froin Thebes.