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TEN YEARS' DIGGING IN EGYPT
as the founder. But Herodotos relates a tale about
Sesostris having been attacked here by treachery,
suggesting that buildings had existed here in Rames-
side times; and beneath some work of Psamtik I
found part of a wall of baked bricks, such as were
used in tombs at Tell Nebesheh, not far from this,
and only in Ramesside times. Literature and dis-
covery therefore go hand in hand here remarkably
closeh".
This place then appears to have been an old fort on
Restoration or the Fort, showing the Large Platform
before the entry.
the Syrian frontier guarding the road out of Egypt;
and here Psamtik settled part of his ' brazen men from
the sea, and built a great fortress and camp, the twin
establishment to that of the rest of the Greek mer-
cenaries at Naukratis, on the Libyan side. The fort
was a square mass of brickwork, w ith dee]) domed
chambers or cells in it, which were opened from the
top ; this sustained the actual dwellings at about forty
feet above the plain, so that a clear view of the distant
TEN YEARS' DIGGING IN EGYPT
as the founder. But Herodotos relates a tale about
Sesostris having been attacked here by treachery,
suggesting that buildings had existed here in Rames-
side times; and beneath some work of Psamtik I
found part of a wall of baked bricks, such as were
used in tombs at Tell Nebesheh, not far from this,
and only in Ramesside times. Literature and dis-
covery therefore go hand in hand here remarkably
closeh".
This place then appears to have been an old fort on
Restoration or the Fort, showing the Large Platform
before the entry.
the Syrian frontier guarding the road out of Egypt;
and here Psamtik settled part of his ' brazen men from
the sea, and built a great fortress and camp, the twin
establishment to that of the rest of the Greek mer-
cenaries at Naukratis, on the Libyan side. The fort
was a square mass of brickwork, w ith dee]) domed
chambers or cells in it, which were opened from the
top ; this sustained the actual dwellings at about forty
feet above the plain, so that a clear view of the distant