Note 163 — Chapter II · (continued 2)
Walter Armstrong translation
The sculptor who made the two famous colossi of Amenophis III. had the same name as his master, Amenhotep. (Brugsch, History, 1st edition, vol. i. pp. 425-6). Iritesen, who worked for Menthouthotep II. in the time of the first Theban Empire, was a worker in stone, gold, silver, ivory, and ebony. He held a place, he tells us, at the bottom of the king's heart, and was his joy from morning till night. (Maspero, la Stèle C. 14 du Louvre, in the Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology, vol. v. part ii. 1877.)