Typographia: or the printers' instructor, including an account of the origin of printing / [J. Johnson].

  • John Johnson
Date:
1824
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Credit: Typographia: or the printers' instructor, including an account of the origin of printing / [J. Johnson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LEN EN EN ENON EN NEN EN EN EVEN ON ENE Be SESE LE SESE SEE IE EEE 4e-S4r |= NENEN@ ST TS TS OS ES A ARK) AS - RAN SEE EKER ERE SES ERE SESE SEGRE EERE FER ESE SES ER ER ESL AA 350....-Tppographta. lossal figures, one of the chairs of which bore the foregoing emblems, were not more than a leazue distant, from Car- nac, if the traveller could have gone strait forward; but he found the country sv intersected and cut up with canals, and covered with Turkish corn, that he was forced to make many turnings, and three hours were occupied before he ar- rived at the Colossal figures to make his drawings. The Sta- tues stand facing the Nile, between the Cities of Luxxor and Carnac, on the East side of the river; the first seems to re- present a man, and the other a woman, but they are both of the same immense magnitude, and they measured 50 Danish feet in height, from the bases of their pedestals, to the tops of their heads. They are sitting on cubical stones of nearly 15 feet square, at the two front corners of which are as many Isiacal figures placed for ornament, but the back is higher than the front by a foot and an half. The pedestals on which there is a single mutilated line of hiero- glyphics, are each of them 5 feet high, 36 feet and an half in length, and 19 feet and an half in depth: the distance, between the statues is 2] paces (524 feet). They are en- tirely formed of various blocks of grey sandy stone, which appear to have been drawn from some of the grottos, that are found in great numbers in the adjacent mountains. Their breasts and legs are covered with many Greek and Latin inscriptions, which were engraved in the time of the Romans, commemorating the names of those who heard the musical sounds emitted by the statue of the greater Memnon at the rising of the Sun. These inscriptions were similar to the following. ‘‘Clavdivs Maximys of the xxii. Legion heard the sounds of the Memnon at the First Hour.”---‘‘In the v. year of Hadrian, Emperor of Thate- rus, the Prefect Meros, heard the sounds of Memnon, the xiii March, at the first hour.” The backs and sides of the chairs upon which these colossal figures are seated, are covered with Hieroglyphical designs and characters; which, although they greatly resemble the generality of such things, yet they also possess a peculiar form of their own; and beside thesethere isoneach side atable or terminus, The chairs are made of a single piece of stone, of the same sort as the rest, but they appear to be more brown and somewhat more hard. The two Isiacal figures, which as it has been already stated, ornament the corners of these chairs, are of a whiter and a finer-grained stone, and seem to have been added to the statues after they had been erected, as they have not that Egyptian character which is so evident inthe rest. It remains only to be observed that the two figures whose heads appear in the lower part of the above engraving, are in bas-relief of the size of life. According to the accounts of many of the before-
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