402 Some Account of the Monuments 
I have given the above passage from the Description de 
‘L Egypte entire, and I shall give others still, because the mere 
expression of the effects of these monuments on the observer 
may suggest in the imagination of the reader ideas which the 
simple indication of these dead masses could not possibly give. 
The northern part of the palace is:almost wholly in ruins; mever- 
theless we can distinguish several chambers which appear to 
have been inhabited. 
What is most remarkable in those ruins is the sculpture with 
which the external and internal surfaces of this palace are covered. 
Those outside are historical; they are generally battles or sea- 
fights. In the land battles there are several in which the vic- 
tory is on the side of the Egyptians. The chief or king always 
appears in a car; he is of a colossal size, and armed with a lanee 
and bow and arrows. The wheels of his chariot break the enemy’s 
ranks, The Egyptians are partly in the midst of the fight: 
other columns also come up in succession. This same figure 
of the king reappears several times: sometimes he marches 
slowly and stops, and sometimes he pushes his coursers into the 
midst of his enemies. In other parts there is a lion hunt de- 
scribed. ‘The king in his car pursues into the thickest part of 
the wood two lions, one of which is just expiring; the other, 
-which still flies, is struck by four arrows. The most remarkable 
of these representations, however, is the naval combat. It re- 
presents an invasion repelled, in which the victory has already 
declared for the Egyptians. The king is placed on the shore; 
under his feet are enemies biting the dust ; there are others be- 
fore him ;—he looks sternly at the enemy. Quite close to the 
shore is the battle of the two fleets. The Egyptian vessels, en- 
tirely different from those of the Nile (they may well be called 
long vessels,) have their prows shaped like lions’ heads, those of 
the enemy are of similar construction, ‘The combat is evidently 
not terminated, but victory will decide for the Egyptians. Some 
of the enemy’s ships are entangled, others are taken, some are 
sidking. We see in these representations the rudiments of naval 
tactics. ‘The enerny’s squadron is surrounded by that of the 
| Egyptians’, and apparently there is no chance of its escaping. 
Inaill these hostile pictures the different nations are carefully 
“distinguished from each other by their dress and armour. In 
“the land combats the enemy have always the beard and the 
tunic long. In the naval combat they wear short and light 
‘babits: part of them wear a bonnet, like the-caps of modern 
soldiers, and surmounted with feathers; others have leathern 
helmets. Tabet 
By these traits we recognise a southern uation: and the 
French artists have taken them for Indians. This variety of 
costume 
