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APPENDIX.
EGYPTOLOGICAL NOTES FROM NAUKRATIS AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD.
By F. Ll. Griffith.
Kum el Hisn, Hush, or sometimes (in the
mouths of Arabs) Hesn (^k1' */), is an im-
portant mound six and a half miles due south of
Kum Ga'ef (Naukratis). It is more than a
mile in circumference and nearly a third of a
mile across from east to west. The mound has
been deeply excavated by the sebakhin, who __________________________________________
have skeletonized the northern portion of it, J below the foundations and have almost entirely
A rough plan of the enclosure, with the
position of the monuments marked upon it, is
given in PL XXIV. The enclosure is apparently
rectangular, measuring 127 yards east and west
by 70 north and south. The walls, four yards
thick, rest on rubbish piled to some height
above water-level. The sebakhin have duo-
to
leaving only the house-walls standing. On the
south-east side is a heap of sand and dust,
which being less profitable than the house
rubbish has been allowed to remain longer.
Formerly it must have been below the level of
Ihe main part of the mound. Now, however,
the latter has been cleared down to it, and in
the last few years the heap of dust itself has
been attacked. It was here, as I learnt from
the sebakhin, that six or seven years ago the
third known copy of the decree of Canopus in
favour of Ptolemy Euergetes and Berenice was
found (Oat. Bulak, 1883, no. 5401, p. 354).
In the spring of 18S4, when Mr. Petrie was
visiting the ruins in this neighbourhood, he
copied an inscription from a Ramesside monu-
ment that had been uncovered on the same
spot (cf. Naukratis, vol. L, ch. xii.). In Decem-
ber, 1885, I visited the mound several times,
and found that the heap of blown dust marked
the site of a temple, the enclosure wall of which
was partly visible. The only other remains
were four monuments of Rameses II., in sand-
stone and granite.
cut away large portions of the wall on the
south, while the north side is much hidden by
rubbish, but in no part is more than a few
feet of the height remaining. The bricks are
large, nine by eighteen inches. The foundation
of the southern side of the pylon at the east
end is distinct. It begins fifteen yards north
of the south-east corner, and measures fifteen
yards by ten. It is sunk deeper than the wall
and is built of brick eight to nine inches wide.
The north half of the pylon is hidden, but if
this side of the enclosure was seventy yards
long, like the west end, and the gateway was in
the centre of the side, we may allow thirty yards
for the wall and pylon foundations on the
north and obtain ten yards as the breadth
of the passage, not reckoning the stone facing
of the pylon, which may have reduced the
width.
Within this enclosure lie four monuments of
Rameses II. The sebakhin told me that they
had all been shifted since their first
—————————^—^—-^^^-^^ dis-
covery, but they evidently still remain close to
their original position. A sandstone group,
EGYPTOLOGICAL NOTES FROM NAUKRATIS AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD.
By F. Ll. Griffith.
Kum el Hisn, Hush, or sometimes (in the
mouths of Arabs) Hesn (^k1' */), is an im-
portant mound six and a half miles due south of
Kum Ga'ef (Naukratis). It is more than a
mile in circumference and nearly a third of a
mile across from east to west. The mound has
been deeply excavated by the sebakhin, who __________________________________________
have skeletonized the northern portion of it, J below the foundations and have almost entirely
A rough plan of the enclosure, with the
position of the monuments marked upon it, is
given in PL XXIV. The enclosure is apparently
rectangular, measuring 127 yards east and west
by 70 north and south. The walls, four yards
thick, rest on rubbish piled to some height
above water-level. The sebakhin have duo-
to
leaving only the house-walls standing. On the
south-east side is a heap of sand and dust,
which being less profitable than the house
rubbish has been allowed to remain longer.
Formerly it must have been below the level of
Ihe main part of the mound. Now, however,
the latter has been cleared down to it, and in
the last few years the heap of dust itself has
been attacked. It was here, as I learnt from
the sebakhin, that six or seven years ago the
third known copy of the decree of Canopus in
favour of Ptolemy Euergetes and Berenice was
found (Oat. Bulak, 1883, no. 5401, p. 354).
In the spring of 18S4, when Mr. Petrie was
visiting the ruins in this neighbourhood, he
copied an inscription from a Ramesside monu-
ment that had been uncovered on the same
spot (cf. Naukratis, vol. L, ch. xii.). In Decem-
ber, 1885, I visited the mound several times,
and found that the heap of blown dust marked
the site of a temple, the enclosure wall of which
was partly visible. The only other remains
were four monuments of Rameses II., in sand-
stone and granite.
cut away large portions of the wall on the
south, while the north side is much hidden by
rubbish, but in no part is more than a few
feet of the height remaining. The bricks are
large, nine by eighteen inches. The foundation
of the southern side of the pylon at the east
end is distinct. It begins fifteen yards north
of the south-east corner, and measures fifteen
yards by ten. It is sunk deeper than the wall
and is built of brick eight to nine inches wide.
The north half of the pylon is hidden, but if
this side of the enclosure was seventy yards
long, like the west end, and the gateway was in
the centre of the side, we may allow thirty yards
for the wall and pylon foundations on the
north and obtain ten yards as the breadth
of the passage, not reckoning the stone facing
of the pylon, which may have reduced the
width.
Within this enclosure lie four monuments of
Rameses II. The sebakhin told me that they
had all been shifted since their first
—————————^—^—-^^^-^^ dis-
covery, but they evidently still remain close to
their original position. A sandstone group,