The colossi of Memnon in the Theban necropolis at Luxor and the Nilometer at Kahira in Cairo with its octagonal pillar marked in cubits to measure the water of the Nile. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's 鈥榁ollstaendige V枚lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen' (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures); Meissen; circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer; bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Many of the illustrations were adapted from Bertuch's 鈥楤ilderbuch fur Kinder' and others.