110 Rey. Epwarp Hinexs on the Defacement of Egyptian Monuments. 
same sculptor. I believe that this is the case in every instance where the prenomen 
is repeated; but if Sir J. S. Wilkinson be right in his supposition, the conclu- 
sion which I should draw is this:—Amenothph III., in his old age, became a 
proselyte to sun worship, in the same manner as his successors at Thebes; he 
abandoned his name, using in his later monuments a repetition of his prenomen 
in place of it. These monuments, consequently, escaped the hostile chisel of 
his grandson; but on the Ammon worshippers recovering the pre-eminence, as 
they did under Horus and his family, the name of Amenothph was restored 
in these cases, as well as in the cases where it had formerly existed and been 
defaced. 
3. The third class of defacements made by the sun worshippers is, perhaps, 
the most numerous of any; at least it contains the most important monuments. 
It consists of those in which the defacements made by the sun worshippers were 
restored to their original state, or nearly so, by subsequent monarchs. Among 
these monuments may be named the great Lateran obelisk at Rome, the largest 
now in existence, on which (as Mr. Bonomi has pointed out) the figures and 
name of Amoun are lower than those of the king, and sculptured in a different 
style. I cannot, however, agree with Mr. Bonomi, that, on this obelisk, it is 
evident that “ Amon usurps the place of some divinity who preceded him, and 
whose figure or titles have been scrupulously erased to make room for his rival.” 
The contrary appears quite evident to me; the name and figure of Ammon were 
erased by one party, the sun worshippers, and restored by another, the Ammon 
worshippers of the family of Horus and Rameses. The same thing has happened 
with respect to the great obelisks at Karnac ; the figures and names of Ammon 
were obliterated and have been restored. Here, however, we know the name 
of the king who restored them, viz. Menephthah I., who has inscribed his name 
on one of the faces of the obelisk as “ its restorer.”’* A like defacement and re- 
storation have befallen the Alnwick obelisk of Amenothph IL., as already noticed ; 
here, however, it is confined to a single name; and a close examination of the 
monuments in Upper Egypt and Nubia, anterior to the reign of Horus, would 
probably add greatly to the list of restorations. 
* I have never seen a copy of the inscriptions on the base of the Lateran obelisk. They are 
said, however, to be of the age of Rameses II.; and they probably commemorate the restoration 
of the monument by that monarch. 
