CHAP. XV. TROCESSION, FROM CLEMENS. 277 



the conspicuous manner in which it is recorded in 

 the sculptures, the ostentation with which it is 

 announced in the dedicatory inscriptions of the 

 monuments themselves, and the answer returned 

 by the God in whose honour it was erected. 



Another striking ceremony was the transport of 

 the dedicatory offerings made by the king to the 

 Gods, which were carried in great pomp to their 

 respective temples. The king and all the priests 

 attended the procession, clad in their robes of 

 ceremony ; and the flag-staffs attached to the pro- 

 pylsea of the vestibules were decked, as on other 

 grand festivals, with banners.* 



The coronation of the king was a peculiarly im- 

 posing ceremony. It was one of the principal sub- 

 jects represented in the court of the temples t; 

 and some idea may be formed of the pomp dis- 

 played on the occasion even from the limited scale 

 on which the monuments are capable of describing 

 it. I have already mentioned the remarkable man- 

 ner in which this subject is treated in the temple of 

 Medeenet Haboo ; and therefore refer the reader 

 to a previous part of this workt, where I have de- 

 scribed the procession given in the accompanying 

 plate. § 



Clemens introduces an account of an Egyptian 

 procession, which, as it throws some light on similar 

 ceremonies, and may be of interest from having 



* As in Woodcut, Vol. II. (1st Series) p. 129. 

 f It occurs in the same part of the Memnoniu'm or Remesseuni, 

 as of Medeenet Haboo. 



t Vol. III. p. 287. to 289. § Plate 76. 



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