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The Monuments of Rameses The: Thebes

In the temple of the god worshipped at Thebes, he consecrated a vessel of cedar wood two hundred and eighty cubits long, and plated it with gold on the outside and with silver within. He had two obelisks of very hard stone erected in front of the same temple, and thereon caused to be engraved the exact tabular statistics of his armies, his revenues, the nations that he had vanquished and the tribute that he had derived from them. Within the precincts of the temple of Hephæstus, * at Memphis, he placed his own statue and that of his wife, each thirty cubits in height and hewn from one solid block. The most difficult of all these works were executed by the captives whom he had brought from foreign regions, and he took care that the lapidary inscriptions should remind the reader that no Egyptian had a hand in them."t II.