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XVI.] COAST Ol’ NUBIA. .‘337

which had formed the roof, we next dislodged.
The hieroglyphics on these were in a beautiful

state of preservation. The only part of these
yet deciphered is a character which Cham-
poll ion* translates “ statue colossal/’ and
found in the dedicatory inscriptions on those
gigantic statues at Luxor. The Greek tablet,
of which unfortunately a considerable portion
is wanting, bears the following inscription:

rriEPBASIAE-.. I
KAIBA2IAI22H
TH2AAEA<I>
£
KAEOriAT.......
©EO.................
TE
By King f f f f f f
And Queen f f f + f
Cleopatra t T t t t t
His Sister f f f t
f t God f f t t
+ t t t

which is apparently a dedicatory inscription
by a King of Egypt, who had for Queen a
Cleopatra, his own sister. This was the case
with Ptolemy Evergetes, Ptolemy Laertes,
and Ptolemy Dionysius, husband of the re-

* No. 299 of his Tableau GSnerale.
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