Mariette, though with great difficulty, recovered some of the more important fragments, such as the name of Rameses III., which dates the building; some borderings of lotus flowers and birds with human hands (fig.

240); and some heads of Asiatics and negro prisoners (fig.

241).[68] The destruction of this monument is the more grievous because the Egyptians cannot have constructed many after the same type.

Glazed bricks, painted tiles, and enamelled mosaics are readily injured; and in the judgment of a people enamoured of stability and eternity, that would be the gravest of radical defects.
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240 .-- Relief tile, Tell el Yahudeh.] [Illustration: Fig.