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monuments took place; mentioning the principal ones which 

 suffered on eacTi occasion. The occasions specified are 

 four. 



I. The dethronement or death of Q. Amuneth {circa 

 1325, B.C.), when her monuments were defaced by her 

 brother Thothmos III. The propylon at Elassassif is the 

 principal one defaced on this occasion. 



II. The change in the religious views of Amenothph IV. 

 (the sun-worshipper of El Tell) (circa 1250, B. C), which led 

 him to deface all the figures and titles of the God Amoun, and 

 all names of which his name formed a part. The monuments 

 defaced on this occasion are referred to three classes. 



1. Those which were never restored, as the lesser obelisks 

 at Karnac. 



2. Those in which the sun-worshipper substituted another 

 name for what he defaced ; as in a cartouche of his own cited 

 by M. Prisse, and in those of his supposed grandfather 

 Amenothph III., where he substituted a repetition of the 

 praenomen for the defaced phonetic name. 



3. Those in which the names and figures that were de- 

 faced have been restored by subsequent kings. Instances of 

 this are the Lateran Obelisk at Rome, the great obelisks at 

 Karnac, and those cartouches in which the name of Ame- 

 nothph III. appears cut over the repetition of his praeno- 

 men ; the latter having been previously substituted for the 

 original name. 



III. The overthrow of the sun-worshippers and restora- 

 tion of the worship of Amoun, on which occasion all the 

 monuments of the intrusive worship were destroyed, as at 

 Karnac, Gebel Tounh, and Ell Tell (a few years after the 

 preceding occasion). The tomb of the king called Skhai, 

 the father of the sun-worshipper, was violated at this time ; 

 and this was probably the occasion on which the royal name 

 on the lion, presented by Lord Prudhoe to the British 

 Museum, was obliterated. It was that of Amenothph IV. 



