COLOSSUS. A Greek word [Greek: Kolossos], "a gigantic statue". ^{15} COLOSSI OF THEBES. The two colossal statues of Amenophis III., one of them being the Vocal Memnon. Besides them there are at Thebes several others, notably of Ramses II. (Luxor and Karnak) and of Ramses III. {113}(Medînet-Habu). Other colossal figures of Ramses II. are found at Mitrahîneh [Memphis] and, wrought into the rock, at Abusimbel. ^{16 89} CONSTANTINE THE GREAT. The first Roman emperor of that name and the introducer of Christianity into the whole empire. He was sole ruler of the Eastern and Western Roman Empires from 323 to 337 A. D. ^{8 10 22} CONSTANTINOPLE. The capital of the Turkish Empire, founded by Constantine the Great 330 A. D. on the site of the ancient Byzantium. It is called in Turkish Istambûl [Arabic: ASTANBWL]. ^{8} CONSTANTIUS II. A son of Constantine the Great who was sole ruler of the Roman Empire from 351 to 361 A. D. ^{8} COPTIC LANGUAGE. The name given to the Egyptian language [Coptic being an abbreviation for Egyptic] in use at the time of the Romans and spoken until the seventeenth century of our era. There were three dialects, the Sahidic (of Upper Egypt) and the Memphitic and Bashmuric (of Lower Egypt). The language was almost exclusively used by the Christian Copts. The alphabet is the Greek with some changes in the form of the letters and six additions from the Hieroglyphic. This is the alphabet: ^{90} Coptic: [Coptic letters] Greek: [Greek: a b g d e z ê th i k l m n x o p r s t u ph ch ps ô] _a b g d e z ê th i k l m n x o p r s t u ph kh ps ô_ and the syllabic sign [Coptic: ti] _ti_. COPTOS. The capital of the Vth nome of Upper Egypt, {114}the modern Kuft [Arabic: QFT]. Its Egyptian name was [glyphs] QEBTI·T. ^{88} CORFE CASTLE OBELISK. This was one of the two obelisks in front of the temple of Isis at Philæ and was erected by Cleopatra II. and Ptolemy IX. It has one column of inscriptions on each face and the cartouches of these sovereigns. Below is a very long Greek inscription which enabled Champollion to read these cartouches. The obelisk was removed in 1815 by Belzoni to England, and is at present in Corfe Castle, Isle of Purbeck, Dorsetshire. ^{10} CRAB. In reality the scorpion, which was the symbol of the goddess Selq, a form of the goddess Isis. Its name in Egyptian is [glyphs] SERK or [glyphs] SERQ. It must have been quite extensively worshiped in Dakkeh, Nubia, which received from it the name [glyphs] PESERK·T, the ancient Pselcis. In Ptolemaic times the crab or scorpion seems to have been identified with the evil genius. ^{21 38 39 81} CROCODILOPOLIS. The capital of the western half of the XXIst nome of Upper Egypt, the HA-SEBEK of the Egyptians, now Bejij in the Fayoom (which see). ^{5 11 90}