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MISCELLANEOUS.
PI. xxii. B. The name of Rameses L, together
with the gods of Heliopolis, deciphered with some
difficulty on a limestone fragment, completes the
list.
The kings whose name I noted are therefore
Usertesen I. (obelisk), Amenhotep II., Eameses
I. and II., Merenptah, Setnekht, Rameses III.,
and Nekhtnebef.
III.—MISCELLANEOUS.
The site of Skhedia (cr^eSta or the toll bridges
on the Canopic branch of the Nile), usually called
Nishoo and Karioon, and Arabized by Mahmud
Bey, > are actually pronounced Nishweh,
Qaryun, and it was a long time before the natives
of Kafr ed dawar recognized what places I was
inquiring for. There are extensive mounds, the
debris being of the same class as at Alexandria
and Canopus with comparatively little crude brick.
The Roman rubbish is of great depth. Unfortu-
nately I could not hear of any inscriptions, and the
Ramesside blocks, mentioned by Wilkinson, have
disappeared. They were probably only Roman
importations.
At Abu Rowash1 there are numerous rock-cut
tombs near the Tub isodeh, one of which, visible
from the top of the rock as a large square opening
in a face of white limestone on a hill northwards,
contains figures and a false door. At the lower
end of the causeway, from the stone pyramid
(which points to Usim), there are large quantities
of diorite chips, all sand-worn, and showing no
traces of sculpture. Small square and round
holes or sockets have been cut in the rock of the
causeway at the same point.
At Usim and its near neighbour Shembareh,
visited in 1886, I failed to find any inscription.
Beshadi ^lA;), which I hoped would prove to be
not only IIty*i- (Pshati, pronounced Bshadi),
but also perhaps one or all of the classical cities
of Nlklov Ma)/xe/A^>ts, and TIpocraiT^, together
with some hieroglyphic equivalent, is the most
insignificant village that can well be imagined,
without a trace of antiquity about it. Near by,
at Dimishe ^U^j, is a slight mound, but nothing
important, and I could not hear of any likely site
in the neighbourhood.
Naqrash. At this village, the name-sake of
Naukratis, there is a hieroglyphic inscription2
)(_ jjj JZjl|^J^J^ in one vertical line between an-
drogynous Nile-figures. It may perhaps be trans-
lated, " thou bringest offerings, he hides it from
his children, the truly great, smiting the perverse."
At Tell Baqliyeh, south from Mansureh, is a
temple enclosure covered with chips of limestone
and Grebel Ahmar sandstone ; but the site of the
temple itself has been deeply excavated (not
recently), and water is standing in it. At the
western entrance are numerous blocks of red and
black granite, unsculptured, and some capitals
apparently unfinished. The enormous blocks
have been split to pieces by wedges in the usual
way. There are no visible town remains, but
round the temple enclosure is an artificially raised
cemetery with remains of human and animal
(cats ?) mummies, limestone coffins, &c. I found
two debased Saite ushabti thrown out from a
newly-opened grave. This cemetery has been
1 Petrie Pyramids, 2nd ed., p. 54.
2 cf. Naukratis II., p. 80.
PI. xxii. B. The name of Rameses L, together
with the gods of Heliopolis, deciphered with some
difficulty on a limestone fragment, completes the
list.
The kings whose name I noted are therefore
Usertesen I. (obelisk), Amenhotep II., Eameses
I. and II., Merenptah, Setnekht, Rameses III.,
and Nekhtnebef.
III.—MISCELLANEOUS.
The site of Skhedia (cr^eSta or the toll bridges
on the Canopic branch of the Nile), usually called
Nishoo and Karioon, and Arabized by Mahmud
Bey, > are actually pronounced Nishweh,
Qaryun, and it was a long time before the natives
of Kafr ed dawar recognized what places I was
inquiring for. There are extensive mounds, the
debris being of the same class as at Alexandria
and Canopus with comparatively little crude brick.
The Roman rubbish is of great depth. Unfortu-
nately I could not hear of any inscriptions, and the
Ramesside blocks, mentioned by Wilkinson, have
disappeared. They were probably only Roman
importations.
At Abu Rowash1 there are numerous rock-cut
tombs near the Tub isodeh, one of which, visible
from the top of the rock as a large square opening
in a face of white limestone on a hill northwards,
contains figures and a false door. At the lower
end of the causeway, from the stone pyramid
(which points to Usim), there are large quantities
of diorite chips, all sand-worn, and showing no
traces of sculpture. Small square and round
holes or sockets have been cut in the rock of the
causeway at the same point.
At Usim and its near neighbour Shembareh,
visited in 1886, I failed to find any inscription.
Beshadi ^lA;), which I hoped would prove to be
not only IIty*i- (Pshati, pronounced Bshadi),
but also perhaps one or all of the classical cities
of Nlklov Ma)/xe/A^>ts, and TIpocraiT^, together
with some hieroglyphic equivalent, is the most
insignificant village that can well be imagined,
without a trace of antiquity about it. Near by,
at Dimishe ^U^j, is a slight mound, but nothing
important, and I could not hear of any likely site
in the neighbourhood.
Naqrash. At this village, the name-sake of
Naukratis, there is a hieroglyphic inscription2
)(_ jjj JZjl|^J^J^ in one vertical line between an-
drogynous Nile-figures. It may perhaps be trans-
lated, " thou bringest offerings, he hides it from
his children, the truly great, smiting the perverse."
At Tell Baqliyeh, south from Mansureh, is a
temple enclosure covered with chips of limestone
and Grebel Ahmar sandstone ; but the site of the
temple itself has been deeply excavated (not
recently), and water is standing in it. At the
western entrance are numerous blocks of red and
black granite, unsculptured, and some capitals
apparently unfinished. The enormous blocks
have been split to pieces by wedges in the usual
way. There are no visible town remains, but
round the temple enclosure is an artificially raised
cemetery with remains of human and animal
(cats ?) mummies, limestone coffins, &c. I found
two debased Saite ushabti thrown out from a
newly-opened grave. This cemetery has been
1 Petrie Pyramids, 2nd ed., p. 54.
2 cf. Naukratis II., p. 80.