 | 1817 - 590 pages
...to be 104 feet long) bore this inscription : — ' i am the king of kings, Osymandyas — if any one would know how great I am, and where I lie, let him exceed the works that I have done.' Whether the prostrate fragment mentioned by Mr. Legh was a part... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1829 - 532 pages
...is to be detected. There is inscribed upon it ' I am Osymandyas, King of King's. If any one wish to know how great I am and where I lie, let him excel some one of my works.' But there is also another statue of his mother, a monolith of twenty cubits,... | |
 | British Archaeological Association - 1908 - 370 pages
...like the Persian monarchs of to-day, styles himself " the King of Kings," and says that " if any one would know how great I am, and where I lie, let him excel me in any of my works" — he states that it was built entirely of stone, eight cubits broad, with an azure sky, bespangled... | |
 | Constance Mary Lubbock Buxton - 1892 - 330 pages
...and, speaking of the great statue, Diodorus says : " Upon it is this inscription — I am Osymandias, King of kings ; if any would know how great I am,...and where I lie, let him excel me in any of my works " (D. i. 4). See the "Ozymandias" of Shelley. On the left bank of the river, too, on the western barrier... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1902 - 244 pages
...admirable for its cut and workmanFafade of the Ramesseum. From a photograph by A. Beato, Luxor. "ship, and the excellency of the stone. In so great " a work...where I "lie, let him excel me in any of my works." The VOL. v. p existence of an inscription on the statue with this meaning, is, of course, wholly imaginary.... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1907 - 996 pages
...in a sitting posture, is the greatest in all Egypt, the measure of his foot exceeding seven cubits ; the one standing on the right, and the other on the...to this portico, they say there was another gallery or piazza, more remarkable than the former, in which were various sculptures, representing his wars... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1921 - 992 pages
...exceeding seven cubits ; the one standing on the right, and the ' other on the left, being- his dauehter and mother. This piece is " not only commendable for...another statue of his "mother, by herself, of one atone, twenty cubits in height; upon "her head were placed three crowns, to denote she was both the... | |
 | 1816 - 592 pages
...to be 10i feet long) bore this inscription : — ' 1 am the king of kings, Osymandyas — if any one would know how great I am, and where I lie, let him exceed the works that I have done.' Whether the prostrate fragment mentioned by Mr. Legh was a part... | |
 | Edward William Lane - 2000 - 796 pages
...and daughter. The great statue bears this inscription — "I am Osymandyas, King of Kings: if any one would know how great I am, and where I lie, let him surpass (or destroy) some of my works." The sitting colossus is the largest statue in Egypt. The foot... | |
 | Paul Edmund Stanwick - 2002 - 276 pages
...statuary (andrias) of Ramses II inscribed with the words, "King of kings am I, Osymandyas. If anyone would know how great I am and where I lie, let him surpass one of my works."49 In the midst of enumerating the exploits of a legendary pharaoh named Sesostris,... | |
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This piece is not only commendable for its greatness, but admirable for its cut and workmanship, and the excellency of the stone. In so great a work there is not to be discerned the least flaw, or any other blemish. Upon it there is this inscription :... 
