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OPERATION'S CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
19/7*.—As I did not find on my arrival at Benisouef
any answer to the letter which I had sent to Colonel
Campbell, and as the one I received by Mr. Waghorn
did not induce me to suppose that any discoveries of
consequence had been made at Gizeh, I determined to
take a cursory view of the Faioum, and, accordingly,
having procured horses from Phil El Effendi, the go-
vernor, I left Benisouef at ten o'clock.
The plain was covered with abundant crops of cotton,
of beans, and of other produce, amongst which were herds
of cattle of all descriptions, and the horses of a regiment
of cavalry. I passed, soon after, two villages, the one
entirely, and the other nearly deserted, from the dread
the inhabitants entertained of the conscription, or of
being condemned to compulsory labour without a hope
of obtaining more than a scanty subsistence for them-
selves, and for their families. I met afterwards several
of these unfortunate people brought back as prisoners
with their cattle, and, like them, fastened together with
cords. Encampments of Bedouins were likewise to be
seen on all sides, whose cattle were turned into the crops
more distinct, only a conjectural restoration can be offered. _
" Prophet, Priest of the abode of Amon, Lord of the JLv^^j^,
thrones of the two worlds ;" but this explanation is given
with considerable diffidence. It is possible, especially in "y^J?/
the upper copy, that there may be the poniard, which in /fo
the texts replaces the human head, as determinative of i"5~o~o
head, chief, or, and in that case it would be the " Chief ^
Prophet, Priest," that is, the high-priest. Should this conjecture be
well founded, the illegible characters in the second line are the name,
and the whole indicates that the bricks were destined for the hypogea
of a deceased sacerdotal functionary.—Mr. Birch.
OPERATION'S CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
19/7*.—As I did not find on my arrival at Benisouef
any answer to the letter which I had sent to Colonel
Campbell, and as the one I received by Mr. Waghorn
did not induce me to suppose that any discoveries of
consequence had been made at Gizeh, I determined to
take a cursory view of the Faioum, and, accordingly,
having procured horses from Phil El Effendi, the go-
vernor, I left Benisouef at ten o'clock.
The plain was covered with abundant crops of cotton,
of beans, and of other produce, amongst which were herds
of cattle of all descriptions, and the horses of a regiment
of cavalry. I passed, soon after, two villages, the one
entirely, and the other nearly deserted, from the dread
the inhabitants entertained of the conscription, or of
being condemned to compulsory labour without a hope
of obtaining more than a scanty subsistence for them-
selves, and for their families. I met afterwards several
of these unfortunate people brought back as prisoners
with their cattle, and, like them, fastened together with
cords. Encampments of Bedouins were likewise to be
seen on all sides, whose cattle were turned into the crops
more distinct, only a conjectural restoration can be offered. _
" Prophet, Priest of the abode of Amon, Lord of the JLv^^j^,
thrones of the two worlds ;" but this explanation is given
with considerable diffidence. It is possible, especially in "y^J?/
the upper copy, that there may be the poniard, which in /fo
the texts replaces the human head, as determinative of i"5~o~o
head, chief, or, and in that case it would be the " Chief ^
Prophet, Priest," that is, the high-priest. Should this conjecture be
well founded, the illegible characters in the second line are the name,
and the whole indicates that the bricks were destined for the hypogea
of a deceased sacerdotal functionary.—Mr. Birch.