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ABYDOS III.
rooms, but only about a foot of the walls was
standing.
The round brick-lined hole at M
corn. The
was probably a pit for storing
long division marked H and J was a little
higher than the rest and carefully paved with
brick and then stuccoed over. At the end of it
was a stone dais, very carefully cut, and about
6 in. high. The front and two sides were
bevelled under, so that the top extended an inch
over the base. I could not determine what was
the use of this, though it may have been the base
of a seated statue. In front of this ran the wall
N, which extended right up round the end of
the cliff. In the marl paving of these divisions
a number of rejected carved stones were found.
They had been cut as part of the stonework of
the building, and then a crack or some other
flaw being discovered, they were thrown in to fill
up the platform. These fragments showed
excellent work both in the lines and in the care
expended on the carving.
61. The great foundation deposit was found
just outside the wall at K. We took out nearly
two thousand pots and stone model vases. The
pottery was very rough. The stone model
vases were mostly of limestone painted red,
black, yellow, and brown ; a few, however, were
of alabaster. With these was the gold band
shown on pi. xlviii.
Another small deposit was in a shallow pit
marked L. Rather below it, to the left, was
another. This latter had some little flat dishes set
in rows, and in some of them were pieces of
incense.
At 0, flat pots with lids were set in the order
shown. A number of model boats had been
placed along the wall to the left of the large
deposit of pots, and a few more were found just
inside the wall N, but all being of wood had
been destroyed by the white ants. Above, along
the upper wall of H, model paddles and little
sticks were found at very short intervals. There
was a regularity in the way they were placed,
so a drawing was made of the best set (see
pi. xlviii).
Apart from these few things nothing was
discovered to give any information about the
temple. Perhaps it Avas built by Aahmes for
his own worship ; but unless we get it from
literary sources we must remain in uncertainty
as to what was its architecture and for whose
worship it was destined.
to the main body
«ed on the Aahmes t
of the Abyi
been accident!
f men were naturally
might be any more s
I to be the cemetery coi
id temple that was e3
and published in M Am
swere of the X
of pottery was i
ti figures, the only one o:
that of Pa-ari, thekeepe:
iefsee pi. 1, flo.: 8). T
the same plate was f
f, hut lying on
shaft, The numb'
i Perhaps fifteei
i' from our
ie «ery is very
, ^ ^tween the tw<
:ttlte a*h'B tomb.
^ the fellahin,
^ to Ms,
„ W°0de^ox-lik(
1 k ** of the
>tSldetMhecen
IC0IT(*ted for ,
'care
° ho* close t,
^M
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ABYDOS III.
rooms, but only about a foot of the walls was
standing.
The round brick-lined hole at M
corn. The
was probably a pit for storing
long division marked H and J was a little
higher than the rest and carefully paved with
brick and then stuccoed over. At the end of it
was a stone dais, very carefully cut, and about
6 in. high. The front and two sides were
bevelled under, so that the top extended an inch
over the base. I could not determine what was
the use of this, though it may have been the base
of a seated statue. In front of this ran the wall
N, which extended right up round the end of
the cliff. In the marl paving of these divisions
a number of rejected carved stones were found.
They had been cut as part of the stonework of
the building, and then a crack or some other
flaw being discovered, they were thrown in to fill
up the platform. These fragments showed
excellent work both in the lines and in the care
expended on the carving.
61. The great foundation deposit was found
just outside the wall at K. We took out nearly
two thousand pots and stone model vases. The
pottery was very rough. The stone model
vases were mostly of limestone painted red,
black, yellow, and brown ; a few, however, were
of alabaster. With these was the gold band
shown on pi. xlviii.
Another small deposit was in a shallow pit
marked L. Rather below it, to the left, was
another. This latter had some little flat dishes set
in rows, and in some of them were pieces of
incense.
At 0, flat pots with lids were set in the order
shown. A number of model boats had been
placed along the wall to the left of the large
deposit of pots, and a few more were found just
inside the wall N, but all being of wood had
been destroyed by the white ants. Above, along
the upper wall of H, model paddles and little
sticks were found at very short intervals. There
was a regularity in the way they were placed,
so a drawing was made of the best set (see
pi. xlviii).
Apart from these few things nothing was
discovered to give any information about the
temple. Perhaps it Avas built by Aahmes for
his own worship ; but unless we get it from
literary sources we must remain in uncertainty
as to what was its architecture and for whose
worship it was destined.
to the main body
«ed on the Aahmes t
of the Abyi
been accident!
f men were naturally
might be any more s
I to be the cemetery coi
id temple that was e3
and published in M Am
swere of the X
of pottery was i
ti figures, the only one o:
that of Pa-ari, thekeepe:
iefsee pi. 1, flo.: 8). T
the same plate was f
f, hut lying on
shaft, The numb'
i Perhaps fifteei
i' from our
ie «ery is very
, ^ ^tween the tw<
:ttlte a*h'B tomb.
^ the fellahin,
^ to Ms,
„ W°0de^ox-lik(
1 k ** of the
>tSldetMhecen
IC0IT(*ted for ,
'care
° ho* close t,
^M
___________■
■SHHHB IS
h H *i'5W;i!*i?l
I ■M^H ■