THE TEMPLE OP THE CROSS. 



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them, many years afterward, in the same house, and takes occasion to observe 

 that the engravings of these bas-reliefs in Stephens's work are very correct.* 



In order to render my account of the Temple of the Cross complete, I must 

 mention two stone statues, perfectly alike, which were discovered by Waldeck on 

 the southern slope of the pyramid, and thought by him to have served for 

 supporting a platform extending before the middle door of the temple. This 

 platform, he states, was twenty feet long and ten feet wide. One of the statues 



Fio. 



STATUE BELONGING TO THE TEMPLE OF THE CROSS. 

 (After Stephens). 



was broken across the legs, the other entire. He drew the Iatter,t and then 



* Cbarnny : Cites et Ruines etc., p. 413. 

 f Plato XXV in: Monuments Anciens etc. 



