High Priest of Amûn, Ramesses-nakhl, Director 1 Civil and military officers of rank 9 Subordinate officers 362 Trained artificers and artists 10 Quarrymen and stone-cutters 130 Gendarmes 50 Slaves 2000 Infantry 5000 Men from Ayan 800 Dead (excluded from total) 900 ──── 8362 ════ {30} From this it will be seen that larger parties than our estimate of 5725 were sent much further afield than Aswân, which itself was a garrison town. It seems to have been the custom to use troops on this unpleasant kind of fatigue, if captives or pressed gangs were not available in sufficient numbers. The only record that we have on the transport of an obelisk is a passage from the Papyrus Anastasi I (GARDINER, _Egyptian Hieratic Texts_, Part I, p. 17*, § XIII), in which one scribe called Ḥori writes to another called Amenemope, accusing him of being unable to calculate the number of men required to transport an obelisk of given dimensions. He says: “An obelisk has been newly made . . . . . of 110 cubits in length of shaft; its pedestal 10 cubits square, the block of its base making 7 cubits in every direction; it goes in a slope (?) towards the summit (?), one cubit one finger, its pyramidion one cubit in height its point measuring two fingers. Add them together (?) so as to make them into a list (??), so that thou mayest appoint every man needed to drag it . . . ” Here the obelisk is very long and thin and has an impossibly short pyramidion, but in any case such a problem can only be solved by one who has had previous experience, not only of the friction to be overcome in the transport of large blocks, but of the nature of the ground to be traversed. The figures given are only sufficient to determine the weight of the obelisk. (29) The largest transportation on land, of which a scene has come down to us, is that of the winged bull of Nineveh. This is published in LAYARD, _Discoveries_, pls. X–XVII. The bull is drawn by men pulling on four cables, and a line of men keeps on placing rollers under the front of the sleds on which the colossus is attached. Behind it men assist the overcoming of the initial friction with large handspikes.