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STELE OF KING SMENDES
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ployed in carrying the earth in baskets corne with their
children at the breast, and since the suckling of infants is
prolonged to a late period in Egypt, infants (nekhinu) may
be seen playing, running and babbling in groups by the
side of the labourers.
The stèle, intended to commemorate the opening of the
quarry, is silent on the works which were undertaken at
Thebes. But the restoration took effcct and must have left
traces behind it. It would perhaps be useful to make ex-
cavations in the neighbourhood of the lake of Thothmes III.
We should have a chance of discovering there, it may be,
an inscription which will complète the text of Dababieh, it
may be a cartouche which will allow us to détermine indu-
bitably what parts of the building were attacked by the
water and subsequently Consolidated by king Nsbindidi or
Smencles.
263
ployed in carrying the earth in baskets corne with their
children at the breast, and since the suckling of infants is
prolonged to a late period in Egypt, infants (nekhinu) may
be seen playing, running and babbling in groups by the
side of the labourers.
The stèle, intended to commemorate the opening of the
quarry, is silent on the works which were undertaken at
Thebes. But the restoration took effcct and must have left
traces behind it. It would perhaps be useful to make ex-
cavations in the neighbourhood of the lake of Thothmes III.
We should have a chance of discovering there, it may be,
an inscription which will complète the text of Dababieh, it
may be a cartouche which will allow us to détermine indu-
bitably what parts of the building were attacked by the
water and subsequently Consolidated by king Nsbindidi or
Smencles.