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THK GAT]i:WAY 0^ PTOI^EMY EUE:RGi:TE:S at KARNAK 



This monument, erected by a member of the last royal line in Egypt about 230 B. C, 

 is the best preserved structure at Karnak. It stands at the entrance to the temple of the 

 god Khons, the Son of Amen, and his consort Mut, who were the three gods chiefly wor- 

 shiped at Thebes. On the other side of the portal is another magnificent avenue of sphinxes 

 similar to that shown on page 990. Nothing now remains of the temple of Khons, which 

 was built by Rameses II in the twentieth dynasty, except a few stones sufficient to show 

 the ground plan. 



