er-Gudin, from a photograph brought back by
Benedite.

Before this it had been little more than a deserted ruin: he cleared
out the _debris_, brought a population to the place; rebuilt the temple,
enlarging it by aisles which extended its area threefold; and here he
enthroned, along with the local divinities, a triad, in which Amonra and
Sutkhu sat side by side with his own deified "double." The ruined
walls, the overturned stelae, the obelisks recumbent in the dust, and
the statues of his usurped predecessors, all bear his name. His colossal
figure of statuary sandstone, in a sitting attitude like that at the
Eamesseum, projected from the chief court, and seemed to look down upon
the confused ruin of his works.*

* The fragments of the colossus were employed in the Graeco-
Roman period as building material, and used in the masonry
of a boundary wall.

We do not know how many wives he had in his harem, but one of the lists
of his children which has come down to us enumerates, although mutilated
at the end, one hundred and eleven sons, while of his daughters we know
of fifty-five.*

* The list of Abydos enumerates thirty-three of his sons and
thirty-two of his daughters, that of Wady-Sebua one hundred
and eleven of his sons and fifty-one of his daughters; both
lists are mutilated. The remaining lists for the most part
record only some of the children living at the time they
were drawn up, at Derr, at the Eamesseum, and at Abu Simbel.

The majority of these were the offspring of mere concubines or foreign
princesses, and possessed but a secondary rank in comparison with
himself; but by his union with his sisters Nofritari Maritmut and
Isitnofrit, he had at least half a dozen sons and daughters who might
aspire to the throne. Death robbed him of several of these before
an opportunity was open to them to succeed him, and among them
Amenhikhopshuf, Amenhiunamif, and Ramses, who had distinguished
themselves in the campaign against the Khati; and some of his
daughters--Bitaniti, Maritamon, Nibittaui--by becoming his wives lost
their right to the throne. About the XXXth year of his reign, when he
was close upon sixty, he began to think of an associate, and his choice
rested on the eldest surviving son of his queen Isitnofrit, who was
called Khamoisit. This prince was born before the succession of his
father, and had exhibited distinguished bravery under the walls of
Qodsh