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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt:...left in the first line probably represents T or P. The second pseudo-Sesostris was long sought in vain. But it was at last discovered, first by Dr. Beddoe and his party in 1856, and then by Mr. Karl Humann, a Prussian engineer. An incorrect drawing of it by Mr. K. Humann, who saw it in June, 1876, was published by Prof. E. Curtius in the "Archaologische Zeitung," 1876, pp. 50, 51, but the sketch of it, made by myself,1 is the first really trustworthy one that has been given to the public. It will be seen that the figure is shockingly mutilated, the last damage to it having been occasioned by the smoke of a Yuruk's fire, whose tent was pitched against it when Mr. Spiegelthal visited the spot three or four years ago. It is, however, a mere duplicate of the first, except that the spear seems to be held in the right hand, the figure facing northward instead of southward, and as there are no traces of an inscription at the side, the characters probably ran across the breast, which is now broken away. In fact this must be the particular figure described by Herodotus. Instead of being a monument of Sesostris, it was really a monument of the power of his rivals and enemies, the Hittites. They must have penetrated to the shores of the Egean itself, and held the pass which commanded the rich vallies of Lydia. Here, therefore, they set up their memorials as a visible sign of empire. For the two figures are not more than a few yards distant from each other, though the one is high above the path, while the other is beside it, carved in a niche cut out of a single huge boulder of rock. The ancient path, of which I detected traces, ran just in front of the carved side of the monolith, which was therefore more conspicuous to the passer by than the other figure ov...