DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.9059#0012
the translator's preface.
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In conclusion, I would take this opportunity
of appealing earnestly to all travellers in Upper
Egypt. For the sake of science, for the sake of
those who will come after us — and I will add,
in sheer justice to him whose persevering labors
and truly heroic exertions have brought to light
so many hidden treasures, I would entreat all
visitors to Sakkarah, Abydos, Denderah, Thebes,
etc., to watch with a jealous care over the integ-
rity of monuments which no educated man can
gaze upon without the keenest interest, and to
prevent, as far as in their power lies, any further
desecration of those relics of a glorious past.
ALPH. MARIETTE.
King's College, London,
May, 1877.
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In conclusion, I would take this opportunity
of appealing earnestly to all travellers in Upper
Egypt. For the sake of science, for the sake of
those who will come after us — and I will add,
in sheer justice to him whose persevering labors
and truly heroic exertions have brought to light
so many hidden treasures, I would entreat all
visitors to Sakkarah, Abydos, Denderah, Thebes,
etc., to watch with a jealous care over the integ-
rity of monuments which no educated man can
gaze upon without the keenest interest, and to
prevent, as far as in their power lies, any further
desecration of those relics of a glorious past.
ALPH. MARIETTE.
King's College, London,
May, 1877.