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Subjoined is a list of the antiquities in red granite that 

 came under my own notice : — 



Nubia, 

 Dakkeh, Temple of, — 



Large broken block of polished red granite, possibly 

 part of the original shrine. 



Dabod, Temple of, — 



One of the smaller chambers contains a broken monolith 

 of red granite that no doubt was originally set up 

 in the adjoining sanctuary. 



Great Temple of Isis, Sacred Isle, Phila3, — 



On the wall of the north side of the court between the 

 first and second propylon is a large rounded slab of 

 red granite, still forming part of the native rock, 

 whereon is a In'eroglyphic inscription, setting forth 

 how Ptolemy Philadelphus assigned the Sacred Isle 

 to the priest for the building of the temple. 



Close to the double portico above mentioned are three 

 chambers, of which the innermost contains a granite shrine. 



Black granite. 

 In front of the propylon of the Rameseum is a large sphinx 

 of black granite likewise mutilated, and with the head severed 

 from the body, and on one side of the great hall are the 

 remains of a statue of black granite of Rameses II. 



Blue granite. 

 On the pavement at the north end of the great hall of the 

 Temple of Horus at Edfou is lying a broken statue of a 

 colossal bird in blue granite. In the second hall is the 

 prostrate pedestal, of blue granite, of the gigantic bird above 

 mentioned, and which, with the bird, was discovered by 

 Mariette in the great hall. 



Colossal statue of Rameses II, — 



In front of the Rameseum {alias the ]\Iemnonium of 

 Strabo, owing to the title of Miamum, attached to 

 the name of Rameses II, being corrupted by the 

 Greeks into Memnon) are the shattered fragments 

 of the colossal statue of Rameses II, that when 

 entire weighed over a thousand tons, and Avas the 

 largest statue in Egypt, carved out of red granite. 



