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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON" AT GIZEH.
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but upon the southern wall opposite to the entrance,
some Arabic characters were scrawled upon a fragment of
plaster with something like charcoal, which proved to be
the 112th chapter of the Koran,6 and which, together with
the other inscriptions, seemed to indicate that all these
Pyramids had been entered about the same time by the
Caliphs. We found in the sarcophagus some pieces of
burnt reed and of charcoal, some of the buff earthenware
with a green glaize, and a few broken pieces of red pot-
tery. The interior of it appeared to me to have been
6 See "Sale's Koran," vol. ii. p. 517.
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but upon the southern wall opposite to the entrance,
some Arabic characters were scrawled upon a fragment of
plaster with something like charcoal, which proved to be
the 112th chapter of the Koran,6 and which, together with
the other inscriptions, seemed to indicate that all these
Pyramids had been entered about the same time by the
Caliphs. We found in the sarcophagus some pieces of
burnt reed and of charcoal, some of the buff earthenware
with a green glaize, and a few broken pieces of red pot-
tery. The interior of it appeared to me to have been
6 See "Sale's Koran," vol. ii. p. 517.