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may be seen to the north of the pylon. While 
later still, in the first century of the Eoman 
dominion, houses Tvere set in the open space of 
the area (h), as by that time probably the walls 
had become too far worn doTO to yield much 
shelter, and their bases too much encumbered to 
give any foundation. About this time the large 
■well (40) was constructed, to supply these houses 
without recourse to the Nile. The southern side 
of the pylon was still standing, although the 
northern had fallen some time earlier; and under 
the scanty shelter from the northern wind yielded 
by the wall of granite, some huts of Eoman age 
were built. Still, in the decline of Egypt, and 
until the Arab conquest, some of the monuments 
remained in their places; two or three obehsks 
and a solitary column stood until their story was 
no longer intelligible to the degenerate descen¬ 
dants of the men who had erected them in 
magnificence and power. 
28. It now remains for us to describe the 
monuments of the Empire and later periods found 
in the temple area, and of which the inscriptions 
are published in this memoir. 
Of the great standing colossus in red granite 
no original inscription can be certainly quoted, 
although several inscribed blocks in the pylon 
most probably belonged to it, judging by the size 
of the hieroglyphics. As this is not certain, how¬ 
ever, these will appear among the miscellaneous 
inscriptions. On the base of the foot-block there 
is a hollow of the form shown in inscription 
No. 32 (Plate V.). This hollow is slight and 
rough-cut, exactly like the cartouches on the 
bases of the obelisks of Eamessu II.; it "was 
apparently the sotep in the throne name of 
Eamessu, inscribed on the base of the colossus, 
and its position on the base well agrees with 
this. Of the figure of the colossus I observed 
many portions in the ruins of the pylon. The 
most important block for restoring the dimensions 
is that with the toes of the right foot (PL xiv. 4). 
They have been cut off square at the ends, and 
flattened up at the sides, but their breadths are 
well defined. They are as follows, across the 
forking of the toes, together with the similar 
measures of one of the pair of granite colossi in 
front of the pylon, and the measures of an 
English foot:— 
Widtli of 
Great 
Pair of 
Modern 
ColllSSUB. 
Colussi. 
foot. 
Indies. 
Indies. 
Inches. 
Great toe 
14-7 
5-0 
1-2 
Second toe . . . 
12-5 
3-0 
•8 
Tliird toe ... 
10-4 
20 
■7 
Fourth toe . , 
11-2 
( 5-9 
•7 
Fifth toe. . . . 
8-4 
•6 
Whole foot . . . 
57-2 
15-9 
4-0 
Figure alone 
(900) 
221- 
69-5 
Taking these scales of proportion, the figure 
alone of the colossus would be 796 inches by the 
pair of colossi, or 993 by the modern proportions. 
As the feet of the pair of colossi are broad beyond 
all natural proportion (being equivalent to a foot 
five inches wide on an ordinary man), we shall 
not perhaps be far wrong in taking the mean of 
the Wo results, and saying that the figure alone 
was 900 inches, or 75 feet, high; or, allowing it 
to be somewhere between 70 to 80 feet. To this 
we must add the height of the crown; this in the 
pair of colossi is estimated at 42 inches beyond 
the top of the head, and -would proportionately be 
174 inches high, or 14-|- feet. To this again must 
be added the base of the figure, which was thinner 
than the usual scale, being only 27 inches thick. 
Thus the whole block appears to have been about 
1100 inches, or say 92 feet high. This was, so 
far as is known, the largest statue ever executed. 
Was it a monolith? will be asked. We can 
only judge by parallels, as it has now been out 
in pieces. There is the obelisk of Hatasu, 108 
feet high, at Karnak, and there is the seated 
