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THE TEMENOS AREA.
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on these floors: but below them, chiefly in the
charcoal-discoloured stratum, numerous flint imple-
ments and inscribed clay sealings were found.
Circular Brick Structures.
26. Close against the middle point of the outer
enclosure wall, on the south western side, are two
circular crude brick structures, or brick-lined pits,
which seem to have had their mouths level with a
crude brick pavement, of which traces were found
outside the enclosure walls, and which, when com-
plete, may have surrounded the temple.
The walls of these pits descend to a considerable
depth below the foot of the temple walls, resting
almost on the higher charcoal-discoloured stratum
(fourth stratum). The bricks of which they are built
are very nearly the same size as those of the main
building.
Both pits had two floors ; the lowest level with
the foot of their walls, and another rather lower than
the upper of the two floors between the enclosure
walls.
Under the lower floors occur objects of the archaic
period, such as fragments of alabaster vases, limestone
spindle whorls and inscribed clay sealings. Between
the two floors pottery, flints, and other objects of the
Old Kingdom, were found. On, and above the upper
floors all the pottery belonged to well known New
Kingdom types.
It is possible that these two structures do not
belong to the temple as we now see it, but to some
part of the Old Kingdom buildings ; and that they
were repaired, and higher level floors added at some
time during the New Kingdom.
Similar, but smaller, structures are met with in
other parts of the temple enclosure, some of which
may be early: but one which is seen to cut through
the circular revetment is at any rate later than that
work ; while another, of rather larger diameter, cuts
through one of the crude brick walls of the temple
itself, near to where the main deposit was found.
Resting on the pavement between the two circular
pits, and associated with pottery of the New King-
dom, were a great number of long-shaped earthenware
vessels filled with white ashes.
These vessels, which are of coarse red pottery,
were from 18 to 20 cm. (7 to 8 ins.) long, 5 cm.
(2 ins.) wide at the top, and the base rounded.
Though more than a score were found, only one or
two were complete, nearly all had been broken across
the middle and thrown together. The wood ash
generally remains inside.
A very great number of fragments of the same
kind of vase are to be seen near the temples within
the Great Wall of El Kab, on the east bank, where
they undoubtedly belong to the New Kingdom.
What purpose they served is not clear; they
seem more in the nature of a oase or sheath than a
vase proper.
Near to the eastmost of these circular pits, and
eight and a half metres from the outer enclosure
wall, was found the large alabaster vase figured on
Pl. LIX. 2; it lay 2*6 metres below datum level,
resting on what must have been the surface of the
ground at some time during the Old Kingdom.
Between these two walls, at a point about 5 metres
SW. of the axis, but below the level of their foot,
was found part of a porphyry vase, with the Ka
name Khasekhemui roughly scratched upon it. This
inscription is figured on PL. LIX. 8.
Store Rooms.
27. Abutting on the inner of these two walls is a
row of short cross-walls, which seem to have been
parts of a series of store rooms, most of which have
now been destroyed. On the floors, and in the angles
of these rooms, were numerous earthenware jars, and
ring-shaped pot stands of the New Kingdom. In one
of the jars a rough glazed scarab of Thothmes III
was found.
Lying transversely across two of these partition
walls are two blocks of a granite similar to that
bearing the inscription of King Khasekhemui, and
to the door sill at the east entrance. That which
is seen on the plan lying the closer to the wall,
seems to be a rough stela of peculiar shape, its
dimensions are about 2*6 X 0-85 X 0-9 metres
(102 X 33 X 35 ins.). The lower 0-35 m. (14 ins.)
has a foot-like projection. The surfaces, except the
base, which is quite rough, have been only hammer-
dressed, and are by no means true planes. The top
is roughly semi-circular. None of the faces have
been finished or inscribed. The other granite block,
lying near it, has been so broken and defaced as to
be little better than a formless mass, but it had been
squared and faced up originally. Both blocks rest
on earth slightly above the flooring of the rooms,
which forms part of the crude brick pavement of the
temple.
Part of a stela, bearing the Ka name of Khase-
'>,hi,s
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THE TEMENOS AREA.
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on these floors: but below them, chiefly in the
charcoal-discoloured stratum, numerous flint imple-
ments and inscribed clay sealings were found.
Circular Brick Structures.
26. Close against the middle point of the outer
enclosure wall, on the south western side, are two
circular crude brick structures, or brick-lined pits,
which seem to have had their mouths level with a
crude brick pavement, of which traces were found
outside the enclosure walls, and which, when com-
plete, may have surrounded the temple.
The walls of these pits descend to a considerable
depth below the foot of the temple walls, resting
almost on the higher charcoal-discoloured stratum
(fourth stratum). The bricks of which they are built
are very nearly the same size as those of the main
building.
Both pits had two floors ; the lowest level with
the foot of their walls, and another rather lower than
the upper of the two floors between the enclosure
walls.
Under the lower floors occur objects of the archaic
period, such as fragments of alabaster vases, limestone
spindle whorls and inscribed clay sealings. Between
the two floors pottery, flints, and other objects of the
Old Kingdom, were found. On, and above the upper
floors all the pottery belonged to well known New
Kingdom types.
It is possible that these two structures do not
belong to the temple as we now see it, but to some
part of the Old Kingdom buildings ; and that they
were repaired, and higher level floors added at some
time during the New Kingdom.
Similar, but smaller, structures are met with in
other parts of the temple enclosure, some of which
may be early: but one which is seen to cut through
the circular revetment is at any rate later than that
work ; while another, of rather larger diameter, cuts
through one of the crude brick walls of the temple
itself, near to where the main deposit was found.
Resting on the pavement between the two circular
pits, and associated with pottery of the New King-
dom, were a great number of long-shaped earthenware
vessels filled with white ashes.
These vessels, which are of coarse red pottery,
were from 18 to 20 cm. (7 to 8 ins.) long, 5 cm.
(2 ins.) wide at the top, and the base rounded.
Though more than a score were found, only one or
two were complete, nearly all had been broken across
the middle and thrown together. The wood ash
generally remains inside.
A very great number of fragments of the same
kind of vase are to be seen near the temples within
the Great Wall of El Kab, on the east bank, where
they undoubtedly belong to the New Kingdom.
What purpose they served is not clear; they
seem more in the nature of a oase or sheath than a
vase proper.
Near to the eastmost of these circular pits, and
eight and a half metres from the outer enclosure
wall, was found the large alabaster vase figured on
Pl. LIX. 2; it lay 2*6 metres below datum level,
resting on what must have been the surface of the
ground at some time during the Old Kingdom.
Between these two walls, at a point about 5 metres
SW. of the axis, but below the level of their foot,
was found part of a porphyry vase, with the Ka
name Khasekhemui roughly scratched upon it. This
inscription is figured on PL. LIX. 8.
Store Rooms.
27. Abutting on the inner of these two walls is a
row of short cross-walls, which seem to have been
parts of a series of store rooms, most of which have
now been destroyed. On the floors, and in the angles
of these rooms, were numerous earthenware jars, and
ring-shaped pot stands of the New Kingdom. In one
of the jars a rough glazed scarab of Thothmes III
was found.
Lying transversely across two of these partition
walls are two blocks of a granite similar to that
bearing the inscription of King Khasekhemui, and
to the door sill at the east entrance. That which
is seen on the plan lying the closer to the wall,
seems to be a rough stela of peculiar shape, its
dimensions are about 2*6 X 0-85 X 0-9 metres
(102 X 33 X 35 ins.). The lower 0-35 m. (14 ins.)
has a foot-like projection. The surfaces, except the
base, which is quite rough, have been only hammer-
dressed, and are by no means true planes. The top
is roughly semi-circular. None of the faces have
been finished or inscribed. The other granite block,
lying near it, has been so broken and defaced as to
be little better than a formless mass, but it had been
squared and faced up originally. Both blocks rest
on earth slightly above the flooring of the rooms,
which forms part of the crude brick pavement of the
temple.
Part of a stela, bearing the Ka name of Khase-
'>,hi,s
J*"
GRANAR1ES'
paveme
ale by four c
Their moul
Jle sandstone s
:-d in position, ir.
3rfthese grana
:St All were en
:;partof a baboon
■isicbas found
■3 granaries, or
::ery, par
•.a earthenware n
2 a broken piece
part 1
-"; of Amenhotej
:t enclosure, and t
paralk
ie pavei
filled chiefly
if of fragmen
Attorn of this
in copper
-asmallal;
^Uhem-ab
Piece of v
of iron
feenthe
r^drcula
h about 0
■«»W«l I .**.-w*6,«.
HM
.,.-,■
BiMHHHHHHHi
■H^HBJjH