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The Hall of Columns in the great temple of Amen-Ra, at Karnak.

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Head from a colossal granite statue of Thothmes III, B.C. 1550. [Northern Egyptian Gallery, Bay 2, No. 360.]

which he built in the temple of Amen at Karnak, 150 feet long, 50 feet wide, with 50 columns and 32 rectangular pillars (see Plate XXX). He founded the temple of Sulb (Soleb) near the Third Cataract, and dedicated a temple at Semnah to Usertsen III. At Karnak and elsewhere he set up magnificent granite obelisks, one of which, commonly called Cleopatra's Needle, now stands on the Thames Embankment. He was buried in the valley of the Tombs of the Kings at Thebes; and his mummy was wrapped in a linen sheet inscribed with the text of the CLIVth Chapter of the Book of the Dead, and extracts from the Litany of Rā.

Among the many monuments of Thothmes III and his reign may be mentioned: 1. The magnificent head, in red granite, from a colossal statue of the king, found by Belzoni at Karnak (No. 360, Northern Gallery; see Plate XXXI); the total height of the head and crown is 9 ft. 5 in., and the width of the face is 2 ft. 7 in. 2. Massive granite monument with figures of the god Menthu-Rã and Thothmes III in relief (Bay 2, No. 363). 3. Fragment of the obelisk set up by the king at Heliopolis (Bay 12, No. 364); and a door jamb from a temple of Thothmes III at Wâdi Ḥalfah (Bay 10, No. 365). Of interest, too, are the cast of a granite sphinx bearing the name of Thothmes III on its breast (Northern Gallery, No. 366); the cast of the famous granite stele inscribed with an address to the king by Amen-Ra, in which the god describes the exploits of Thothmes III (Central Saloon, No. 367); portion of a stele dated in the 35th year of Thothmes III (Bay 11, No. 368); slab with scenes of Amenhetep I and Thothmes III adoring the gods (Bay 12, No. 369). Among smaller objects inscribed with his name may be mentioned the glass jug, gold rings, razor (?), tools and weapons in bronze, and bricks made of Nile mud, exhibited in the Third and Fourth Egyptian Rooms. There are also the stele of Messnȧu, a priest in his temple (Bay 8, No. 372), and the statue of Netchem, who prayed to the royal Ka of Thothmes III

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(Bay 9, No. 373).

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To the joint reign of Thothmes III and the statue of Anebni, the master of the set up to his memory by his august (Bay 9, No. 374). Amen-hetep II fought in Syria, and penetrated the Súdán as far as Wâd Bâ-Nagaa, about 80 miles north of B.C. 1500. Khartum; he caused the body of one of the

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