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with thee.’”» So sang the bard, Pentaur, and as we look upon 
the great king in his coffin, we can see him in fancy in that 
desperate charge, rushing on his foes like a flame of fire, can see 
those long hands, that powerful frame, swaying in the terrible 
contest, and dealing the blows of a giant right and left, while 
the Hittites fell like chaff before the feet of his horses. “I was 
changed,” he said, ‘‘ at the voice of Amen, being made like the 
god Month in my might. 1 grasped the dart with my right 
hand; I tought with my left, none dared to raise his hand 
against me; they could not shout nor grasp the spear; their 
limbs gave way, I made them fall into the water, as the 
crocodiles fall into the stream. Lach cried to his fellow, it is no 
mortal man that is against us, it is Seti, it is the god of war.” I 
think as one realises the stature of Rameses II., and looks on 
his face in his sleep that knows no waking, one can imagine the 
awe and terror with which, when roused to passion, this god 
incarnate must have been invested in court or camp, on throne 
or battlefield. 
Let us look at the face closely. In colour it is a light brown, 
almost yellow in fairness: the head is narrow and is what 
we should call dolichocephalic, that is, the head is thin and 
projects far backwards, the length from nose to back of skull very 
considerable. The forehead is high, but so far from being 
straight it retreats, and must have in life taken much from the 
dignity of the face. The eyes are nearer than I expected to see 
them, nearer together, as I found out afterwards, than his father 
Seti’s eyes; the eyebrows, to judge from the white hair that still 
remains, must have been thick; certainly if we may judge from a 
gem which gives us the portrait of his Mesopotamian mother, 
Queen Tua, his eyebrows were his mother’s eyebrows. But 
Pharaoh’s strength of character lies in the nose, the ears, the 
mouth, and the chin. The nose, unlike his father’s and 
mother’s, is Napoleonic, a beaked nose. ‘True, the bandages 
have turned and pressed up the tip, but the great, strong aquiline 
nose must have been the feature of Pharaoh’s face. The ears 
were large and flat, larger than any of the royal mummies I 
examined, great elephant flappers, that stood out from the head. 
I have often seen such ears associated with love of music, and I 
do not believe that the poets, such as Pentaur, would have had 
so much encouragement given them under Rameses II., had not 
this Pharaoh loved the sound of the harpers. The ears had been 
bored for jewels, but both lobes had been broken,—by robbers 
perhaps. The cheek bones were high and prominent, and gave, 
I daresay, in life a certain haughty overbearing strength to the 
upper part of the face. I was struck by the length from the nose 
to the tip. As for the mouth, it had once had lips full-fleshed— 
fuller fleshed, certainly, than the lips of Seti, his father—and 
