The so-called “Library of Osymandyas” until very lately most of its fame to the often-quoted passage of Diodorus Siculus which records its expressive inscription. But recent explorers in that wonderful field of monumental history which it is now the fashion to term “Egyptology,” have given it new interest by identifying the well-known palace-temple near Thebes (designated by Champollion and by Wilkinson the “Rameseium,” but more popularly known as the “Memnonium”), with the Library described by Diodorus as “The Dispensary of the Mind.”

In the elaborate plan of the “Memnonium” given by Sir Gardner Wilkinson, and of which I here subjoin a copy, he points out the two inner chambers (a, b) as having, one or other of them, contained this “Sacred Library.”