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THE PYRAMID OF OUNAS.
295
lation of some portions of the text in the
" Sitzungsberichte " of the Munich Academy,"
1881, pp. 269-326 ; and of other portions in a
pamphlet entitled " Die agyptische Chronologie
gegeniiber der historischen Kritik des Herrn
Alfred von Gutschmid," Munchen, 1882 ; and,
finally, M. Maspero has some valuable transla-
tions and commentaries, with the text, in
" Recueil de Travaux relatifs a la Philologie et
a, l'archdologie Egyptiennes et Assyriennes,"
vol. v., p. 157, seq. Paris, 1884.
The Pyramid of Otjnas is a little south-
west of the stepped pyramid of Sakkarah. Prof.
Maspero's excavations of it were begun in the
second week of February, 1881, and were con-
tinued till the 28th of the same month. It had
been previously entered by thieves, as have all
other Egyptian tombs. Dr. Brugsch Bey says,
" There was a regularly constituted thieves'
society, formed for the secret opening and rob-
bing of the tombs of the kings. In this, even
sacerdotal persons took a part. It required full
and extensive inquiries to follow the track of
the offenders."
The Abbot papyrus, one of the most valuable
treasures in the British Museum, contains an
295
lation of some portions of the text in the
" Sitzungsberichte " of the Munich Academy,"
1881, pp. 269-326 ; and of other portions in a
pamphlet entitled " Die agyptische Chronologie
gegeniiber der historischen Kritik des Herrn
Alfred von Gutschmid," Munchen, 1882 ; and,
finally, M. Maspero has some valuable transla-
tions and commentaries, with the text, in
" Recueil de Travaux relatifs a la Philologie et
a, l'archdologie Egyptiennes et Assyriennes,"
vol. v., p. 157, seq. Paris, 1884.
The Pyramid of Otjnas is a little south-
west of the stepped pyramid of Sakkarah. Prof.
Maspero's excavations of it were begun in the
second week of February, 1881, and were con-
tinued till the 28th of the same month. It had
been previously entered by thieves, as have all
other Egyptian tombs. Dr. Brugsch Bey says,
" There was a regularly constituted thieves'
society, formed for the secret opening and rob-
bing of the tombs of the kings. In this, even
sacerdotal persons took a part. It required full
and extensive inquiries to follow the track of
the offenders."
The Abbot papyrus, one of the most valuable
treasures in the British Museum, contains an