Petrie, William M. Flinders: Ten years' digging in Egypt: 1881 - 1891 (London, 1892)

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TEX YEARS' DIGGING IN EGYPT

That season's work was already laid out, and I
was bound to go to Tanis ; but the next season I
returned to this curious site, determined to understand
its history. The only place that I could had to live
in about there was an old country house of a pasha ;
and, while looking at it, I noticed two blocks of dark-
grey stone by the side of the entrance. Turning
one of them over, I there saw the glorious heading
HnOAISHNATKPATI ... ; a decree of the city of

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HTOAISHN AYK PAT I
H Al OAQPONAnPIONO^lAO
TON'EPPATHXAOHNAEAIAB ICP
SYH PA^O^YAAKAAPETHSKA!

ENEKATHIEISAYTHN

24. Dedication of Statue to Heliodoros, by the

NaUKRATITES. ] : f>.

Xaukratis was before me, and the unknown town
now had a name ; and that a name which had been
sought for often, and far from this place, and which
was one of the objects of Egyptian research to dis-
cover and truly assign. All that day ' Naukratis'
rang in my mind, and I sprang over the mounds with
that splendid exultation of a new discovery, long
w ished for and well found. In England, some hesi-
tated, and some doubted, but none denied it; and
after the season's work there was no longer any
question. The next year I continued the excavations