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CONCLUSION.
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sites we know from literary evidence the
temenos dedicated by the iEginetans to Zeus
alone remains buried. The cemetery of the
ancient city has also been discovered, but the
burials discovered certainly do not for the most
part date from the richest and most prosperous
period of its history. The greater and more
important part of that cemetery may very
likely be yet undiscovered, or may lie where it
cannot without great difficulty and expense be
excavated, beneath the modern Arab village on
the mound to the north of the ancient site.
Thus something still remains to be done; but
during the following season, 1886-7, no work
has taken place on the site, and it is, perhaps,
improbable that any considerable results would
reward an explorer who now resumed the ex-
cavations. In the course of time the Arabs
will lay bare by their own digging those parts
J of the city that are still covered with the deep
' accumulation of centuries; and if then the site
be revisited by some competent explorer, it
may be possible to recover further vestiges of
the ancient colony. There is, however, little
reason to suppose that as much still lies
buried as has already been brought to lio-ht:
and this volume, together with its predecessor,
must, for the present at least, be offered to
those interested in the early relations of Greece
and Egypt as representing the outlines of the
knowledge that we have acquired from the
excavation of the colony of Naukratis. Even
if all our conclusions be not accepted, we may
at least hope that our volumes and plates will
serve as a storehouse of facts that throw lio-ht
on the history of the Greeks in Egypt, and
especially on the development of their manu-
facture and their art.
K 2
75
sites we know from literary evidence the
temenos dedicated by the iEginetans to Zeus
alone remains buried. The cemetery of the
ancient city has also been discovered, but the
burials discovered certainly do not for the most
part date from the richest and most prosperous
period of its history. The greater and more
important part of that cemetery may very
likely be yet undiscovered, or may lie where it
cannot without great difficulty and expense be
excavated, beneath the modern Arab village on
the mound to the north of the ancient site.
Thus something still remains to be done; but
during the following season, 1886-7, no work
has taken place on the site, and it is, perhaps,
improbable that any considerable results would
reward an explorer who now resumed the ex-
cavations. In the course of time the Arabs
will lay bare by their own digging those parts
J of the city that are still covered with the deep
' accumulation of centuries; and if then the site
be revisited by some competent explorer, it
may be possible to recover further vestiges of
the ancient colony. There is, however, little
reason to suppose that as much still lies
buried as has already been brought to lio-ht:
and this volume, together with its predecessor,
must, for the present at least, be offered to
those interested in the early relations of Greece
and Egypt as representing the outlines of the
knowledge that we have acquired from the
excavation of the colony of Naukratis. Even
if all our conclusions be not accepted, we may
at least hope that our volumes and plates will
serve as a storehouse of facts that throw lio-ht
on the history of the Greeks in Egypt, and
especially on the development of their manu-
facture and their art.
K 2