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)

chap, xvil] PREVIOUS PLANS. 289

is the more complete and correct, therefore pre-
sumably the earlier. Hay makes the same error as
Mariette in showing no gateway on the south of the
three-chambered Ptolemaic building; otherwise all
that he gives of the plan closely resembles Burton's.
One must suppose that his plan was executed later
than Burton's, when the pasha had demolished some
of the remains of the temple. If otherwise, one
can only think that the ruin caused by the earth-
quake obscured some points that the pasha's demo-
lition made subsequently clear. Both maps were
executed probably between 1830 and 1840.

There is still a fourth map, that of Lepsius,*
drawn before Mariette's excavation, and referred to
by him.

Burton's map is extremely interesting, and most
careful. From this map we have taken in our own
the position of the pillars of the outer court.

Burton shows no gateway (i) through the eastern
brick wall of this court; this was probably blocked
up. He marks the brick also as "crude brick."

The walls in the thickness of the eastern part of
the second pylon he gives very much in the same
way as Mariette, except that whereas Mariette
marks the doorways of the two chambers which we
have lettered k and j opposite to. one another,
Burton more correctly marks that of the chamber k
as nearer to the great court.

He shows a door leading out of the north-western
* Lepsius, ' Denkmaler,' i. S3.

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