And yet, wherever excavations have been made among these remains which have suffered such deplorable ill-treatment, colossi and inscriptions commemorating the Pharaohs of the XIIth dynasty have been brought to light.
The inscriptions on the three Jaina Colossi of Southern India have been published by Dr.
It resembles its brother colossi in all essential particulars, but has the special peculiarity of the cheeks being dimpled with a deep grave smile.
The salient characteristics of all these colossi are the broad square shoulders, and the thickness and remarkable length of the arms, the tips of the fingers, like Rob Roy's, nearly reaching the knees.
The hillside was recessed to form the facade, backed against which four immense seated colossi of the king, in pairs on either side of the entrance, rise from a platform or forecourt reached from the river by a flight of steps.
The third and northernmost temple, separated from the others by a ravine, is on a large scale; the colossi of the facade are six in number and 53 ft.
But more interesting than the Rameseum or the Colossi are the tombs of the kings, some forty-two of which have already been discovered.
The Rameseum is here and would attract more attention if it were not overshadowed by larger temples; here also are the "Colossi of Memmon," one of them known to literature as the singing statue.
We have journeyed to Thebes to see the ruin of the mighty temples which Diodorus saw, and the colossi and the obelisks, and to visit the royal tombs of which he heard--now open to the light of day.
We raced away for the Colossi of Memnon, where, I fear, we did not linger as long as was proper.
Bound for the Valley of the Kings, the House of Hatasu, and the Colossi of Memnon, it seemed a fitting overture.
Of its glory in general he adds: "There was no city under the sun so adorned with so many and stately monuments of gold and silver and ivory, and multitudes of colossi and obelisks cut out of entire stone.
Barring a few poets, the literary colossi have seldom had less than the work of a score of years on which to base their claims for greatness.
In his "Heroes and Hero Worship" he treated his colossi far otherwise than he in turn has been treated by Gosse and Froude.
Two, yes, the Twin Colossi they call them,' she replied, joining in his chuckle at the silhouetted figures in the sunset.
To the south, a little, the shoulders of the Colossi domed awfully above the flat expanse, and soon he passed the Ramesseum, the moon just entering the stupendous aisles.
Nile, while the multitude of obelisks and colossi towered up like a forest of stone.
Opposite Karnak, on the left bank of the Nile, north east from the colossi of Amenophis III.
On the left bank of the Nile, westwards of the temple and the two colossi of Amenophis III.
On the left bank of the Nile, between the colossi of Amenophis III.
At the entrance from the first into the second court, on the left, was the greatest of all the detached colossi in Egypt, the seated statue of Ramses, hewn out of a block of red granite from Syene.
First we pass into a spacious portico, of which the roof is supported by eight pillars, against which lean as many standing colossi about 30 feet high, with arms crossed, the whip and the symbol of life in their hands.
The monolithic colossi rose on either hand; but they also were shelving to one side, or sinking away.
Did you not say that Goethe and Byron were thecolossi of egoism and poetry?
As I am neither Goethe nor Lord Byron, the colossi of poetry and egotism, but simply the author of a few esteemed verses, I cannot expect the honors of a cult.
This idea is aptly symbolized in those gigantic colossi flanking the entrance to some rock-cut temple, which though entire are yet part of the living cliff out of which they were fashioned.
We may assume that thesecolossi were, as in other Egyptian buildings, placed immediately in front of the real supports, and did not themselves uphold an entablature.
Abydos General view of Karnak Perspective view of the Hypostyle Hall, Karnak Thebes, the plain, with the Colossi of Memnon FIG.
But perhaps it may be said that these colossi were statues built-up of comparatively small stones.
Is it to be supposed that he oscillated between the colossi in the temple where the funerary sites were celebrated, and the chamber in which the corpse reposed?
All that subsists of their decoration--shattered colossi and bas-reliefs often broken and disfigured--tells us nothing beyond the pomps and triumphs of official history.
Seen from a point nearly 500 feet below, and in consequence of the inclination of the pyramid faces, at some considerable distance laterally, even a statue fifty feet high, like the two colossi of Amenophis III.
But the most striking feature of the building is supplied by the four colossi of Rameses placed two and two on either side of the door.
The colossi had but to recede a pace or two so as to be incorporated in the substance of the pylon itself.
The obelisks are generally two in number, the colossi vary from four to six for each pylon, according to the magnificence of the temple.
Each of these colossi is made from a single block of stone such as is not found within several days' journey of the place where they stand.
This was formerly the principal entrance, and the office of these colossi was to welcome the multitudes.
Already at Memphis it has buried innumerable statues and colossi and temples of the Sphinx.
We loitered too long around the colossi of Memnon and the palaces of the plain.
In the huge colossi which sit before the Great Temple at Ipsamboul (Fig.
It would seem that all the colossi were of stone, especially of the harder kinds.
The only differences between it and thecolossi of Amenophis III.
The colossi which flank the entrances to an Egyptian temple have been often criticised from an erroneous standpoint.
The Pharaoh who built a temple filled it with his own effigies; his colossi sat before the gate, they helped to form those structural units which we call Osiride piers, and figures of smaller size were ranged under the porticos.
We shall then readily perceive how entirely these colossi were in harmony with their surroundings.
The largest of all, however, are thecolossi at Ipsamboul representing Rameses II.
There is a great gulf," says Mariette, "between the energetic power which distinguishes the head of this sphinx and the tranquil majesty with which most of these colossi are endowed.
The sculptor who made the two famous colossi of Amenophis III.
The colossi of the ancients were to a great extent designed for either the interiors or the exteriors of religious temples, where they were artfully adapted to be seen in connection with architectural effects.
It has been pointed out how the four modern outdoor colossi of Europe each and all fail to attain the requirements of a work of art.
All this I knew--crumbling colossi and river and sand and sun and brazen sky--was to pass away in the twinkling of an eye.
The four colossi sat, with hands resting on knees, with arms crumbled quite away, and gazed out upon the river.
About the feet of the colossi I could make out the creeping forms of beasts that laired in the once proud works of men.
I'll take you to the tombs of the Kings, and to the Colossi when the sun is setting.
Its name, 'Memnon,' is that given by the Greeks to many of the colossi which they saw scattered about the country when they made their way into Egypt.
As we drew near we perceived that they were Colossi of some sort or another, and rightly conjectured that before us sat the three "Silent Ones" that are held in such awe by the Kukuana people.
Amongst these are the curious legends which I collected about the chain armour that saved us from destruction in the great battle of Loo, and also about the "Silent Ones" or Colossi at the mouth of the stalactite cave.
Perhaps these Colossi were designed by some Phoenician official who managed the mines.
Now we could make out the dim forms of the three Colossi who sat upon its verge.
On this plain are the famous statues known as the Colossiof Memnon.
The Colossi are of hard gritstone, monolithic, and forty-seven feet in height, with pedestals twelve feet high.
The Colossi at Thebes, the two statues of Amenophis III.
That the Egyptians must have possessed some mechanical means, with which to lift these colossi into their exact place, cannot be disputed: otherwise the time consumed in setting them up would have been equal to that of quarrying them.
He cried to theColossi sitting in their plain, and to the yellow precipices of the mountains of Libya.
And from Kurna the Colossi are exceptionally grand and exceptionally personal, so personal that one imagines one sees the expressions of the faces that they no longer possess.
From the Colossi one goes onward toward the trees and the mountains, and very soon one comes to the edge of that strange and fascinating strip of barren land which is strewn with temples and honeycombed with tombs.
The Colossi leave him some remnants of individuality.
Unlike the Sphinx, which becomes ever more impressive as you draw near to it, and is most impressive when you sit almost at its feet, the Colossi lose in personality as you approach them and can see how they have been defaced.
A damnable tram-line for little trolleys leads one toward the wonderful colossi of Memnon.
The Nile has sunk away from the feet of the Colossi that it has bathed through many days.
The rock above the four colossi on the façade, which is of sandstone with layers of clay, had become fissured, threatening an immediate fall.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colossi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
