Benson, Margaret; Gourlay, Janet: The temple of Mut in Asher: an account of the excavation of the temple and of the religious representations and objects found therein, as illustrating the history of Egypt and the main religious ideas of the Egyptians (London, 1899)

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preface.

Above all, we should have wished to finish com-
pletely the excavation, to clear away the banks of
earth which may yet hide treasures of the past, to
dredge the lake, or dig, when it was especially low,
for statues and monuments which may have been
thrown into it.

The limits of time and the interruption of work
rendered it impossible to verify our results on the
spot after completion of the report. We have how-
ever attempted to carry out the work in such a way
that though much we hope may be added in the
future we trust that little need be altered.

Thus although for the moment we have not
finished the excavation, we have thought it better
to put forth the book, incomplete as it is, rather
than let what has been reclaimed from a buried
past fall again into oblivion.

Margaret Benson.
Janet Gourlay.