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IV.-SAKKARAH.
Sakkarah is a village which gives its name to
the necropolis near which it is situated. This
necropolis is the most important, the most an-
cient, and yet at the same time the most modern
of all the cemeteries of Memphis. It extends
along the verge of the sands of the desert for
about four miles and a half in length, with a
breadth varying from a third of a mile to nearly
one mile.
There is certainly not, at the present time, a
single spot in the whole of the necropolis of
Sakkarah that has not already been, over and
over again, explored by excavations more or
less ancient. It offers, in fact, a spectacle of.
utter devastation. Pits without number lie
yawning at the feet of the passer-by. Dismantled
brick walls, heaps of sand mingled with stones
ment. For nine months in every year it is under water.
[This colossus was raised during the winter of 1886 -7
and now rests on rafters.— Ed.] There is every reason to
suppose that it stood facing the north, against a pylon
of the temple of Vulcan of which not a vestige remains.
A second colossus must have corresponded with this one
on the other side of the entrance. For this second colos-
sus, however, we have sought in vain. Examples of such
an arrangement are found at Luxor and at Karuak, and
the two collossi of the pylon at Luxor also represent
Ilameses.
IV.-SAKKARAH.
Sakkarah is a village which gives its name to
the necropolis near which it is situated. This
necropolis is the most important, the most an-
cient, and yet at the same time the most modern
of all the cemeteries of Memphis. It extends
along the verge of the sands of the desert for
about four miles and a half in length, with a
breadth varying from a third of a mile to nearly
one mile.
There is certainly not, at the present time, a
single spot in the whole of the necropolis of
Sakkarah that has not already been, over and
over again, explored by excavations more or
less ancient. It offers, in fact, a spectacle of.
utter devastation. Pits without number lie
yawning at the feet of the passer-by. Dismantled
brick walls, heaps of sand mingled with stones
ment. For nine months in every year it is under water.
[This colossus was raised during the winter of 1886 -7
and now rests on rafters.— Ed.] There is every reason to
suppose that it stood facing the north, against a pylon
of the temple of Vulcan of which not a vestige remains.
A second colossus must have corresponded with this one
on the other side of the entrance. For this second colos-
sus, however, we have sought in vain. Examples of such
an arrangement are found at Luxor and at Karuak, and
the two collossi of the pylon at Luxor also represent
Ilameses.