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34 PHARAOHS, FELLAHS, AND EXPLORERS.

VOTIVE BOWL

(mended) discovered in the great trench of the Temple of Aphrodite, Xaukratis.

British Museum.

Am; and again under the substructions of a ruined temple
at Tell Gemayemi, during the same year, by Mr. Griffith.
At Tell Qarmus, in 1SS7, M. Naville also discovered a se-
ries of ceremonial deposits of the time of Philip Arrhideus.
Explorers, in short, now make systematic search for founda-
tion deposits, and up to the present time, with but one ex-
ception, they have invariably found them.

No large works of sculpture were found in the ruins of
Kaukratis, with the exception of two much-damaged sphinx-
es and the remains of a headless colossal ram in white mar-
ble. Hands, feet, and other fragments of life-size statues
were, however, turned up in the precincts of the various tem-
ples, besides a large number of smaller heads and torsos of
marble, limestone, and terra-cotta. Some of these represent
 
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