Macus (or Marcus) an innocent boy. You have already begun to be among the innocent ones. How enduring is such a life to you! How gladly will your mother, the church of God, receive you, returning to this world! Let us restrain our sighs and cease from weeping. Galleria Lapidaria. PAX HIC MIHI SEMPER DOLOR ERIT IN AEVO ET TVVM BENERABILEM BVLTVM LICEAT VIDERE SOPORE CONIVNX ALBANAQVE MIHI SEMPER CASTA PVDICA RELICTVM ME TVO GREMIO QVEROR. QVOD MIHI SANCTVM TE DEDERAT DIVINITVS AVTOR MERITA RESVRGIS TEMPORALIS TIBI DATA REQVETIO Peace. This grief will always weigh upon me: may it be granted me to behold in sleep your revered countenance. My wife Albana, always chaste and modest, I grieve, deprived of your support, for our Divine Author gave you to me as a sacred (boon). You, well-deserving one, having left your (relations), lie in peace-in sleep-you will arise-a temporary rest is granted you. She lived 45 years, 5 months, and 13 days. Buried in peace. Placus her husband, made this. * Galleria Lapidaria. *Placed by Lepsius in the 3rd Dynasty. + Dr. Birch regards KHUFU and KнNUM-KHUFU as two names of the same monarch, which opinion has been confirmed by the new tablet of Abydos, found by Mr. Dümichen, and by the tablet of Sakkara, discovered by Mariette. SHAAFRA he considers to be the SUPHIS II. of Manetho. Events. : : 1440 name. The obelisks of Alexandria, Constantinople,and St. John Lateran, bear his name. The Speos Artemidos begun. A great conqueror. Reigned 47 years. Added the small edifice attached to the first area of the temple of Karnak. The great Sphinx at the pyramid bears his name. His name is on the obelisk of St. John Lateran. Added to the great temple of Karnak, built the principal part of that of Amun Ra, at Luxor. Built also that of Khum, at Elephantine. Erected the two sitting colossi at Thebes, one of which has been known as the "vocal Memnon." The temple of Eileithyia (El Kab) bears his naine. The name of his queen, Taia, was usually introduced with his own in his records. Scarabæi used as records. Great progress in the arts of sculpture and painting. He introduced sun worship. Tel-elAmarna his capital. Tonibs of this period at Tel-el-Amarna. Built the fourth gateway of the great temple of Amun, at Karnak. Restored the worship of Amun. Tomb in valley of the kings. Built the hypostyle hall of Karnak; commenced Memnonium at Abydos; dedicated Temple of Amun at Koorneh (Thebes). His tomb in the valley of the kings. Sarcophagus in Soane Museum. Rameses the Great, styled Miamun, or Amun-mai. The Sesostris of the Greeks. A great conqueror. Built the Rameseum or palace-temple (called Memnonium) at Thebes. Rock-cut temples of Aboosimbel and Kalabsche. Added to the temples of Luxor and Karnak, and had his victories sculptured on the walls; erected the obelisks at Luxor; completed temple at Koorneh; erected a colossal statue of himself in red granite in the Rameseum, and another of limestone at Memphis. Completed Memnonium and temple of Osiris at Abydos. Tablet of Abydos on one of the walls of the apartment, sculptured by his order; made considerable additions to the 1337 : : 1324 1462 1322 |