D'Athanasi, Giovanni; Salt, Henry [Editor]: A brief account of the researches and discoveries in Upper Egypt: To which is added a detailed catalogue of Mr. Salts collection of Egyptian antiquities (London, 1836)

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KARNAK.

antiquity of very little value; Dr. Maruki, who
had arrived before us, having bought up the
finest specimens. Moreover we should not even
have found what we did to purchase, but for the
custom of the Arabs of not choosing to sell at
one time and to the same person, all the collection
of antiquities which they happen to have; pre-
fering rather to sell them from time to time, and
to different travellers, in order that they may
demand a higher price for them.

We stayed some days in this part of the
country, and made some trifling excursions in
the neighbourhood of Gourna and of Luxor, but
Mr. Beechy not making his appearance to join
us, we took a boat from Luxor and proceeded to
Kina in search of him, and there we found him.
The next day we went to Luxor, and there we
passed our nights in the temple and our days
at Karnak, where we had already commenced
digging. During forty days which we spent in
this place we met with nothing remarkable, with
the exception of a colossal head of red granite
which is now in the British Museum. Besides
this we found a hand of a colossal statue of
middling dimensions, and an altar of granite with
six figures of Deities represented on it. This