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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
able size, and consisted of several chambers roughly
chiselled;9 and over the entrance a figure was inscribed
in the act of worshipping, and five cartouches on either
side facing inwards, of which I, 3, 5, G, 8, 10, were like
A, and 2, 4, 7, 9, like B.1 The interior of another tomb
had been painted with the white flowers and stalks of
the lotus, in compartments upon a dark blue ground;
and in another place a design had been sketched out,
but not executed. Mummies of cats are said to have
been found near the Speos. The channel between the
islands and the plain near the Speos is only navigable
during the inundation.
There are large mounds and a quantity of broken
pottery at Kom Achmar,2 and a quarry in an adjoining
valley, also several tombs excavated on the side of the
mountain, and decorated with painted figures, proces-
sions, &c, in which the drapery is remarkably well re-
presented. The river takes a fine bend under, these
rocky mountains, and afterwards stretches away with
great effectXtowards Minyeh. The village of Souadee,
that of Alexander the Great. The prenomen is assumed from the
name of the monarch Ilophra, or Apries, of the 26th Saite dynasty,
with the addition of " The approved of Anion."—Mr. Biucii.
9 Notwithstanding the great care with which the interiors of some
of the tombs have been finished, in many others no attempt at decora-
tion is visible, either from the premature death of the persons for whom
they were intended, or from other causes at present inexplicable. In
Campbell's tomb at Gizeh, for instance, sarcophagi of the most ex-
quisite workmanship have been placed in rough grottoes cut in the rock,
without the least attention to symmetry, or to any regular shape.
1 See preceding page.
2 Several places .arc called by this name, which signifies a red
mound.
OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
able size, and consisted of several chambers roughly
chiselled;9 and over the entrance a figure was inscribed
in the act of worshipping, and five cartouches on either
side facing inwards, of which I, 3, 5, G, 8, 10, were like
A, and 2, 4, 7, 9, like B.1 The interior of another tomb
had been painted with the white flowers and stalks of
the lotus, in compartments upon a dark blue ground;
and in another place a design had been sketched out,
but not executed. Mummies of cats are said to have
been found near the Speos. The channel between the
islands and the plain near the Speos is only navigable
during the inundation.
There are large mounds and a quantity of broken
pottery at Kom Achmar,2 and a quarry in an adjoining
valley, also several tombs excavated on the side of the
mountain, and decorated with painted figures, proces-
sions, &c, in which the drapery is remarkably well re-
presented. The river takes a fine bend under, these
rocky mountains, and afterwards stretches away with
great effectXtowards Minyeh. The village of Souadee,
that of Alexander the Great. The prenomen is assumed from the
name of the monarch Ilophra, or Apries, of the 26th Saite dynasty,
with the addition of " The approved of Anion."—Mr. Biucii.
9 Notwithstanding the great care with which the interiors of some
of the tombs have been finished, in many others no attempt at decora-
tion is visible, either from the premature death of the persons for whom
they were intended, or from other causes at present inexplicable. In
Campbell's tomb at Gizeh, for instance, sarcophagi of the most ex-
quisite workmanship have been placed in rough grottoes cut in the rock,
without the least attention to symmetry, or to any regular shape.
1 See preceding page.
2 Several places .arc called by this name, which signifies a red
mound.