342 ALEXANDRIA. 
CHAP, with a lion's head'. The largest statues of 
L ' . this form are those of Thebes, about four hun- 
dred miles to the south of Cairo % one of which 
has been commonly called Memnons Statue. 
From the drawings made of those figures by 
Denon^, it is plain that neither of them were 
represented with human heads ; but that they 
corresponded with the double image of a human 
figure with a lion's head, common among the 
antiquities of Egypt ; the nose and under-jaw 
of the leonine bust belonging to each of them 
having fallen off, but the rest of the head being 
similar to that which appeared upon the statues 
here shewn to us by Monsieur- Le Roy, and 
since removed to our national Museum*. This 
is so evident, that it is remarkable none of the 
travellers who have visited Thebes have paid 
attention to the fact. They were perhaps mis- 
led, by expecting to find the image of a human 
form, as belonging to the supposed statue of 
(1) See the Plate representing Antiquities found at Saccura. 
(2) According to Norden, 405 miles, who makes the distance equal 
to \3h French leaj^ues. See Drawings of some Ruins, l^'c. puhlislied 
hy the Royal Sucicly in 1741, p. 9. 
(3) See Plate 44 of the large Paris edition of the Foyage en Egypte 
par f^ivant Denon. 
(4) See also the Plate of the Antiquities found at Sacc&ra, as before 
referred to. 
