Пойдем от истоков (Брестед. Volume II, p.368 EIGHTEENTH DYNASTY: AMENHOTEP III [904])
DEDICATION STELA (An enormous sandstone stela about 30 feet high and 14 feet wide, still lying a few hundred feet behind the colossi of Amenhotep III at Thebes; text, Lepsius, Denkmaler, 111, 72.)
904. This stela contained the dedication of the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III, which stood behind the (Memnon) Colossi at Thebes. It stood in the usual place, the "Station of the King," which it marked, being erected, like the similar stele of Amenhotep II at Elephantine and AmAda (9 791 ff.), against 'the inside of the rear wall of the holy of holies (The stela is directly referred to in another building inscription of Amenhotep III in this same temple ($ 883, 1. s), where it is called "a station of the king, wrought with gold and man.y costly stones." The word "station" is here determined with a stela, and the text would indicate that it was overlaid and incrusted.) . Here it proclaimed the king's gift of the temple to the god, on the spot where the king stood in officially absolving the ceremonies of the ritual.
The upper third of the stela is occupied by two conventional scenes, showing the king, Amenhotep III, and his queen, Tiy, before "Sokar-Osiris " (on the left) and " Amow Re '' (on the right).
The text of twenty-four lines represents:
(I) the king delivering the temple which stood behind the Colossi to Amon in a presentation addressa (11. 2-13);
(2) Amon accepting it with words of praise to the king (11. 14-20);
(3) the "Divine Ennead" calling upon the god to enter his temple, while they praise him and the king (II.20-24).
The text is badly broken and certainly corrupt in a number of places.
SPEECH OF THE KING (LL. 1-13)
Temple
905. 'Live . . . . . . . . King Amenhotep (III) (). He saith: "Come thou, Amon-Re, lord of Thebes, presider over Karnak; thou hast seen thy house which I have made for thee in dthe west of Thebes (ys't wr.t 7tt W >s't probably designates "the west of Thdbes," found in 1. 3 of the preceding building inscription (ymy-wr't nt w 9 s't).) Its beauty mingles with Manu (M ' -nw), when thou sailest over the heavens to set therein.
When thou risest in the horizon of heaven, it shinese with the gold of thy face, (for) its face is toward the east [______] (The parallelism of "because thou risest" and "because thou seltest" is all that can he made of this phrase.) thou shinest in the morning every day; thy beauty is in its midst without ceasing.
I made it in excellent work, of fine white sandstone.
Colossal Statues
906. My majesty filled it with monuments, with my [statues] (:This restoration is probable, for the (Memnon) colossi before this temple are of gritstone) from the mountain of gritstone. When they are seen (rinl) their place, there is great rejoicing because of their size (The so-called Memnon colossi are about 58 feet high (Lepsius, Denkmiiler, Text, 111,141 ff.), but this height is reduced nearly 5 feet by the accumulated Nile mud. They bear, or at least the southern statue bears, the dedication (Lepsius, DenkmUer, Text, 111, I 44) : "He made (it) as his monument for his father Amon;making for him a great statue of costly gritstone . . . . . . . . . . . ." There is among the titles of the king also a reference to the monument as "brought from Northern Heliopolis to Southern Heliopolis." The quarry of red gritstone, whence the statues were taken, is at the Gebel el-Ahmar near Cairo (see 1,493, 1. IS, note)
and Heliopolis; Southern Heliopolis is modern Erment, south of Thebes.) I made slikewise a r-Ib upon the stone; it is of alabaster, pink and black granite; my majesty made a double pylon,c seeking excellent things for my father; statues coming forth r- -1 they were shaped, 6- throughout. Great was that which I made, of gold, stone, and every splendid costly stone without end.
I gave to them the directions to do that which pleases thy ka, [--------] satisfied with an august dwelling like
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