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Show 48 THE MONOGENJSTS AND labyrinth of arithmeLical adjustments satisfactory to no one but their learned calculator; or again, similar to the useful but very piece-meal coverings of a skeleton chronology by M. Brngsch,-2H 7 who, in the main, agrees with the time-m asurcmcnts previously laid clown by Lcpsins; or finally, ingenious attempts at unsettling that which had been generally agrc d upon, by ChampollionistR, throu()"h M. Poitcvin's 268 aLtorney-likc process of detecting some supposititious flaw in tho indictment. For myself, therefore, as before s'tatcd, I have no more precise Egyptian chronology to offer than that already sketched in 'l'ypes of Manlcind; and having wait d some twelve years for Lcpsius, it is small hardship to extend one's patience for a few months longer: because, as I had the pleasure of hearing from his own lips last ycal', during our rcncoutro over tho new treasures of tho Louvre Museum, tho Boolc of Kings must now be ncar tho point of its appearance at Berlin. Tho delay of publication, siucc its announcement about 1845,2(;9 is not to bo regretted. Tho Chi f of tho Prussian scientific mission, upon his return from tho East in 184G, had first to arrange the periodical issue of tho magnificent lJenlcmiiler, by no means yet completed; and next, in such standard works as tho O!tronologie der .LEgypter, followed by innumerable minor essays, to clear away erroneous hypotheses whilst indicating novel fa ts, before tho chronological frame-work, resulting from accumulated discoveries, could be filled up in method satisfactory to archroologists. 'l'b1·ough such wise procedure, his Boolc of Kings will now embody tho enormous series of historical data derived (only since 1850) from th~ Mcmphitc exhumations of M. Au a. MARIE'l'TE -latterly appomtccl, by Imperial discrimination, one of tho Oonservateur·s du MuBee du LouV?·e. .With an outline of this gentleman's conquests in EO'yptia.n sctcncc, my addenda to the pages270 of our last volume (wherein his name foreshadows revelations, the extent of which nono but himscl f could ~hen apprc~iat:) may properly close. It was my good fortune to fU'l'Ivc at Pal'JS 111 Nov. 1854, within a we k of M. Maricttc'A r turn there, fresh from tho scones of his fou1·-ycar's toil beneath d .scrt-gt~ound with tho ?ur::ficics of which, around the PyramidA of Sakkara, I had boon. fam1l1ar from 1 31 to 1841. Introduced to him at the Institute by our collaborator M. Alfred Maury, nothing 267 Rti&berichte au& ./Egyptm (supra, noto 109). • 268 AUmoire. sur Its Stpl Oar touche& de la Tabled' Abydos attribu(s cl Za XIIc dynastic dgyptaennt- Extrmt dolo. Revue ArcMologique, 11• An.n6o, Pn.ria, 1864. .xo Or.nmoN, Appendix, 1846, to o.ll Aubacquont editions of" Chnptors on Early Egyptinu IT1atory," p. 3. 270 'l'ypes of Mankind, pp. 676, 686. TlD~ POLYG ENISTS. could cxc~cd the franl'ncss and prolonged kinuncss of his beariub' towards an ldcr Nilotic resident. M. Mariette is too highmindcd for me to cxpt· ss more than a geatcfnl acknowledgment of fa ilitics by him accorded to me; not forgetting citl1Cl' those of his able coadjutor at the Louvl'c, my friend M. T. Dcv',ria. The first reliable announcement of result~ of "Excavations at tho Scrapcu~ of Memphis" appeared ~vor Ll1o Rignaturc of a far-famc(l archcologuc, F. de Saulcy de l'InstiLnt:271 but tho trcasur s br ngl1t thence by Mariette, wore not arranged for public inspection in tl1o Louvre-galleries, until the 15th May, 1855, during the Expo8ition universelle. The facts are those. Sent out to Egypt "en mission" in quest of ancient Copti M 1 '., the curiosity of our Egyptologist was cxcite(l at Alexandria, Ang-. 1850, by tho sight of uumcrons uniform 1 pllinxcs of calcarcow~ stone, covered with G reck inscl'ipti ns, said to have been hrougllt feom Sakld,m, tho nDcropolis of Memphis. Following at Cairo tl1o advice of Liuant-B y, during a trii to the local ities, M. Mari tto discovered, peeping out from the sand, one of this self-same kind of sphinx in situ. For a man of his education and quick energy this indication sufli cd. Gangs of workmen were immediately employ <1 to clear away tl10 sand which, since the days of trabo- B. c. 15- had accumulated over these rocky undulations to a depth varying feom 10 to 70 feet; and, by the 25th Dec. of tho same year, a,u avenue, in length above 6600 feet, was laid. bare, :flanked by tl1e remains of a double row of sphinxes, of which 141 were in good preservation. At tl1c end of this alley, a little further exhumation disclo eelastounding to relate, in an Egyptian cemetery-a hemieyclc formed of Greek statues of Ilcllcnic worthies; Pin dar, Lycurgus, Solo11, Eueipidcs, Pythagoras, Plato, ..LEschylus, Homer, Aristotle! Th01wo branched ofl' a paved dromos to the right and left; tho latter pathway to a toruplo built by Phamoh Amyrtrcus (about B. c. 400) in honor of Apia; the former straight to the long-lost Sorapcurn. Two chapels, one Greek and the other Egyptian, intersected ti1C middle of this road on its left side; and, in this last, large as a ca If at 8 months, was iHcloscd a most beautiful and perfect statue, carv d in white calcareous stone, of the sacred bull Apis! As probably the one visited by Strabo, it now ranks among other prieolc s treasures of the Louvre. Infinite in cl'iptions, Egyptian, Gre k, and even Pho:mician, containing the pl'Oscyncmata, votive ofi'cringl:l, of gcnceations of foreign visitors to the holy shrine; llcllc.nic and Pharaonic bronzes, cfligics, and monuments of many matenals ar1d 211 Lc Oo11stiltt/io1111el, Po.ris, 9th o.nd lOth Dccombor, 1854; Feuiltel07lB. |