OHAP. II.—SAN UNDEB THE EMPIRE. 
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they were 239 inches high in the figure, with 
26 inches of base, and about 62 inches of crown ; 
327 inches, or 27:^ feet, over all. 
80. There are also some lesser statues of 
Eamessu II. One is in grey granite, with very 
large crystals of felspar (Plan, 81); the head is 
lost, and the legs are broken; on the back is the 
inscription 38a, and on the girdle the name 
38 B. The figure is 82 inches high to the 
shoulder, standing. 
Another original statue of Eamessu was a 
seated figure, in black granite (Plan, 82). On 
the back is the inscription 39 a ; a fragment of 
the cartouches, 39 b, on the side; and on the 
girdle the cartouche 39 o. This figure is much 
broken; the top of the head, the chest, and the 
body to the knees, being all separate. Another 
statue was standing ; but only the base and right 
foot of that remains, bearing the inscriptions 40. 
The most remarkable statue is one in grey 
granite, of fine quality and work (Plan, 75); it 
represents a figure kneeling, with one knee for-' 
ward, and the other leg stretched out behind (PI. 
xiv. 3): probably it originally held an altar in front. 
Though no cartouche remains (the only inscrip¬ 
tion being that around the base, 41 a, c, d), we 
shall not be far wrong in attributing it to 
Eamessu II.; the heavy sandals and the style 
of the work show that it does not belong to the 
earlier ages, while the execution fell off so rapidly 
in Merenptah’s and the later statues, that it 
can hardly be dated after Eamessu II. Osor- 
kon II. has added his cartouche upon the 
shoulder, 41 b. 
A bust of a red granite statue, in a very 
weathered state, is lying at the eastern end of the 
temple (Plan, 269). It belongs to Eamessu II. 
apparently by the fragment of inscription. No. 41. 
There is a curious group also in a very 
weathered condition, representing a king in front 
of a hawk, which folds its wings over him on either 
side in protection (Plan, 67). This is broken in 
two, and no trace of inscription can be seen. 
Another piece without inscription is the fine head 
of Eamessu II., in pink granite, well polished 
(Plan, 83). This formed part of a group of a 
deity protecting the young Eamessu, as a hand 
of large size remains behind the head (pi. xiv. 2). 
At San, as at Tell el Maskhuta, and other places, 
there was a great triad carved in a single block of 
granite (Plan, 10). The three gods are, however, 
standing at San, and not seated, as in the triad at 
Tell el Maskhuta (Pithom), and that from there now 
at Ismailiyeh. The block measures 12 ft. 6 in. 
high, 7 ft. 7 in. wide, and averages with the 
figures 3 ft. 1 in. thick; so that it weighs about 
22 tons. Unhappily the heads of the figures are 
injured, and the block has tipped forward, and 
rests on other stones, so that it could scarcely be 
safely dug out in the front. The inscription on 
the outer (west) edge is 43 a, and on the back 
43 B; the other edge is close to the pylon wall, 
and the base is buried. It was placed by Sheshonk 
III. with its face to the north, in a line with the 
south side of the entrance of the pylon; but this 
can hardly have been its original place, as the 
inscription, being all round, seems to show that 
it was free-standing, and not with one edge 
against a wall. 
31. The obelisks of San are all broken, some 
into many pieces. The first pair met with are 
those at the end of the hall of columns (Plan, 
42, 47). The inscriptions on these are given 
in Nos. 44, 45; the north obelisk was the last 
one left standing at San, and does not appear to 
have been overthrown until the middle ages, as 
the Eoman stratum is far beneath it. The next pair 
of obelisks that remains (passing over the single 
one (49) in Plan, which we shall notice presently) 
are (67, 58) in Plan, the inscriptions of which are 
given in Nos. 46, 47. One of these, the part of 
(58) lying across the axis, has been cut up in later 
times ; all one side is faced away, a row of holes, 
apparently to key in rods of wood or metal, has 
been made along that side, and another, and 
mortar is in the hollows of the hieroglyphs. The 
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