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PLATE VII. Horus of Behutet and Ra-Harmakhis in a shrine. PLATE VIII. Horus of Behutet and Harmakhis in a shrine. PLATE X. Left: Horus of Behutet spearing a Typhonic animal, and holding his prisoners with rope. Right: Horus of Behutet, accompanied by Ra-Harmakhis and Menu, spearing the Hippopotamus-fiend.
Between the Fayum and the apex of the Delta, the Libyan range expands and forms a vast and slightly undulating table-land, which runs parallel to the Nile for nearly thirty leagues. The great Sphinx Harmakhis has mounted guard over its northern extremity ever since the time of the followers of Horus.
They all represent the king with whom we are already familiar, Rameses II., who caused this great temple to be made to celebrate his victory over the Kheta, a tribe of Syrians, living far away by the river Orontes in the north of the Holy Land. Two on each side of the temple doorway the statues sit, and between them, in low relief, is the small figure of the god Harmakhis.
The following extract refers to the embalming of the head: "Then anoint the head of the deceased and all his mouth with oil, both the head and the face, and wrap it in the bandages of Harmakhis in Hebit.
Scenes of offerings to Ra Harmakhis, Hor, Tûm, or Amen are engraved on the sides of the pyramidion and on the upper part of the prism. Such is the usual type of obelisk; but we here and there meet with exceptions. A groove upon it shows that it was surmounted by some emblem in metal, perhaps a hawk, like the obelisk represented on a funerary stela in the Gizeh Museum.
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