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Memnon. Indeed Norden, in the desiofn he made chap. 
VII 
upon the spot, as appears by the etching he ^ -^ -' > 
afterwards engraved from it*, has attempted a 
faint dehneation of the human countenance, by 
introducing an imperfect restoration of the 
features, as they were suggested to his ima- 
gination by the appearance of the stone. 
Pococke used still greater freedom''; but Denon 
accurately delineated the figures as he found 
them. According to his plate, there is not the 
•smallest trace left of any human countenance ; 
and the back of the head, in each statue, agrees 
with those figures which have the leonine bust. 
Strabo, who was himself at Thebes, and mentions 
these colossal statues, does not say that either 
of them was a statue of Memnon ; but that they 
were near the Memnonhnn; and that a sound 
issued every day from one of them \ 
Within the magazine we saw many other 
(o) See A'bn^t^w's Etchings, tab. I. as before cited. Land. 1*41. 
(6) Pococke's Observations upon Egypt. 
(7) Slrahon. Geogr. lib.wW. p. 1155. Ed. Oxon. Tiie observation 
o( Slrabo may remove the difficulty that has always attended any en- 
deavour to reconcile the statue from which the sound issued with that 
of an actual statue of Memnon. Memnonis saxea effigies, as mentioned 
by Tacitus. The persons who heard the sound might attribute that 
sound to Memnon, without considering the statue to be a statue of 
him. 
