Abney, William de Wiveleslie: Thebes and its five greater temples (London, 1876)

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disposed to think that quite as much as one-sixth of the whole of the
debris is this burnt pottery. The height to which the rubbish has accu-
mulated is the result of one village after another occupying the same site,
the new building material being transported from the hill side and the
river banks.