way, and it seems beyond question that her son Ȧmen-ḥetep IV derived from her the monotheistic views which he held. [Illustration: The Temple of Luxor, built by Ȧmen-ḥetep III, B.C. 1450.] The building operations of Ȧmen-ḥetep III were on a very large scale, and extended from one end of Egypt and Nubia to the other. He built the =Apis chapels= at Ṣaḳḳârah; at Thebes he built a pylon; at Karnak the temple dedicated to the Theban triad, Ȧmen-Rā, Mut and Khensu; in the Southern Ȧpt (_i.e._, Luxor), a temple to =Menthu=, and a temple to the goddess Mut, from which come the series of =statues of Sekhet=, a fire-goddess, exhibited in the Northern Egyptian Gallery, Nos. =381-410=. All these buildings were on the east bank of the Nile. On the west bank he erected a great temple, the =Memnonium=, and in front of it set up two huge statues of himself which are generally known as the =Colossi of Memnon= (see =Plate XXXIII=). The northern statue was said to emit a sweet, sad note daily at sunrise, and for this reason was known as the “vocal statue of Memnon”; the sound was never heard after the statue was repaired by the Emperor Septimius Severus (A.D. 193-211). Ȧmen-ḥetep III also built a temple at Al-Kâb, and another to the god Khnemu at Elephantine, and at Saddênga in the Sûdân he built a temple in honour of his wife Thi, who was also probably worshipped there, as the king himself was worshipped in his temple at Ṣulb, which has already been mentioned. [Illustration: PLATE XXXII. Colossal seated statue of Ȧmen-ḥetep III, B.C. 1450. [Northern Egyptian Gallery, Bay 8, No. 412.]] [Illustration: PLATE XXXIII. The statues of Ȧmen-ḥetep III, B.C. 1450, commonly known as “The Colossi.” The statue on the right is the famous “Colossus of Memnon,” from which a sound was said to issue at dawn.]