GRANITE LIONS OF AMEN-HETEP 111.

" ( Neb-Maat-Ra j> the lord of Ta-Kenset, the great god, lord of " heaven. He hath made a magnificent building. It is sur-" rounded by a great wall, and the battlements thereof pro-"ject into the sky like great obelisks. This hath the king " f Amen-hetep, prince of Thebes j , made for millions of millions " of years for ever and for ever."

* RED GRANITE LION MADE BY AMEN-HETEP III., AND USURPED BY THE NUBIAN KING AMEN-ASRU.

The Lions were brought from Gebel Barkal and presented lo the British Museum by Lord Prudhoe in 1835.

[From Lepsius, Auswahl, PI. XIII. (liritish Museum, No. i.

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