MAHUTEAN OBELISK, or the Pantheon Obelisk. It was erected by Ramses II. in Heliopolis. Clement XI. re-erected it in front of the Pantheon in Rome in 1711. A single column of hieroglyphs is inscribed on each of its faces. ^{10} MÂKARÂ. The royal name of queen Hatasu, which see. ^{6 35} MÂ-MEN-RÂ. The royal name of Seti I., which see. ^{87} MAQDÂM-IBN-EL·`AMR-BEN-ABI-RE`ÂL. A mythical person. ^{80} MARS. The Roman god of war, the Arês of the Greeks, and the Menthu (which see) of the Egyptians. ^{61} MAREOTIS. The large lake south of Alexandria, called by the ancient Egyptians [glyphs] MERηT, "_the lake_". ^{91} MATARÎYEH. The modern name of Heliopolis, a short distance from Cairo. ^{1 5 36 91} MEDÎNET-HABU. The modern name of a part of the necropolis of ancient Thebes, and the site of many ruins, especially those of the temples of Thothmes II. and Ramses III. ^{88} MEDITERRANEAN SEA. This was well known to the ancient Egyptians and traversed by the fleets of many Pharaohs, who, at one time, even subjugated the islands in it. Its name in Egyptian is [glyphs] ÛAZ-ÛR, "_the great sea_". ^{90} MEGIDDO. A town of the Kharu [Syrians] in Palestine, on the border of the great plain of Esdraëlon, the scene of the battles between Thothmes III. and the Syrians, and between Neco and the Jewish king Josiah. The {132}town was also taken by Sheshonq I. in his war against Rehoboam, king of Judah. Its name in Egyptian is [glyphs] MÂKETHA. ^{36} MEMNONIUM. Or Rameseum. The incorrect name given by the Greeks to the temple of Ramses II. in Shekh-abd-el-Qurnah, in the necropolis of ancient Thebes. It is called by the Greek geographer Diodorus the "tomb of Osymandyas". There is one colossal statue of Ramses II. still in its ruins. ^{16 88} MEMPHIS. The Greek form of the Egyptian [glyphs] MEN-NEFER·T, "_the good place of rest_", the biblical [Hebrew: MOF] [môf] or [Hebrew: NOF] [nôf]. It was the capital of the first nome of Lower Egypt, and its present site is the village Mîtrahîneh. The whole district was a large necropolis with the famous pyramids from Gizeh to Saccarah. It is the "white wall" of the Greek historian Herodotus, or the Egyptian [glyphs] ANBU-HEZ·T, "_the white wall_". Its chief deity was Ptah. ^{4 10 19 65 90 91} MENDES. The capital of the XVIth nome of Lower Egypt. 92 MENES. According to tradition the first Egyptian king, the founder of the Egyptian empire, and the builder of Memphis. In Egyptian his name is written [glyphs] [glyphs] or [glyphs] (as on the necklace in the possession of the New York Historical Society) SUTEN-KAUT? MENA, "_the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Menes_". ^{89} MEN-KHEPER-RÂ. The royal name of Thothmes III. ^{36 47 48 49 50 52 53 54 55 56 58 59 60}