Wilkinson, John Gardner: Topographie of Thebes, and general view of Egypt: being a short account of the principal objects worthy of notice in the valley of the Nile, to the second cataracte and Wadi Samneh, with the Fyoom, Oases and eastern desert, from Sooez to Bertenice (London, 1835)

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CONTENTS.

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Return of the water from the

Lake . . .355

The Bathen of D'Anville is

purely imaginary . . 356

The Oasis parva. Warm springs ib.
Height of the level of the

Oases . . .357

El Hayz and Farafreh . . 358
Oases of the Blacks . . 359

Oasis of E'Dakhleh . . 360

The Great Oasis . . ib.

Temple of El Khargeh .361

Other ruins and villages in the

Great Oasis . . . 362

Desert east of the Nile. Two
convents; ruins ; porphyry
quarries ; Myos Hormos, &c. 363
Gebel e' Zayt and sulphur mines.

Benisooef. Journey to Minyeh 364
Heracleopolis ; Hajar e'Salam . 365
Bahnasa . . . 366

Gisr-el-Agoos, a crude trick

wall . . .367

The wall of Sesostris . 368

Acoris, now Tehneh. Greek
inscriptions; quarries; hiero-
glyphic tablets . . 369
Taha-el-amoodayn . . 370
Minyeh: the modern cemetery . 371
Grottoes of Beni Hassan . 372
Style of the painting . . 373
The subjects relating to private

life . . .374

The strangers neither Jews nor

Greeks . . . 375

The animals. Games and other

subjects . . . 376

Dwarfs . . . 378

The Speos Artemidos . 379

Ruins of Antinoe . . 380

Grottoes at El Bersheh. Statue

on a sledge . . 382

Hermopolis Magna, Oshmoon-

ayn.

Gebel Toona

383

The supposed site of Alabastron 384
Sculptured grottoes and alabas-
ter quarry . . 385

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Tanoof. Dahroot. Mouth of

the Bahr Yoosef . . 386

The first Dom trees. Hieracon 387
Crocodile mummies . . 388

E'Sioot, Lyeopolis. Wolf mum-
mies . . . 389
Bed of alabaster. Gow, Antaeo-

polis . . . 390

Hoax practised on the Pope.

Tahta . . .391

Serpent of Shekh Hereedee . 392
The white monastery . . 392

Ruins of Athribis . . 393

Soohag; E'Khmim or Panopo-

lis ... 394

Geergeh. Ruins of Abydus . 396
Tablet, or list of kings. Acan-
thus grove . . . 399
How, or Diospolis parva; tomb

there . . .400

Chenoboscion: ancient grottoes 401
Dendera. Egyptian architecture 402
The zodiac. Portico of the great

temple of Athor . . 403

Parts of the temple and its anti-
quity . . . 405
Small temple or chapel of Isis

and other ruins . . 406

The Tentyrites enemies of the

crocodile . . . 408

The crocodile . . . 409

Qeneh . . , 410

Coptos, Ruins of . .411

Communication with the Myos
Hormos and other ports of the
Red Sea . . . 412

Qoos, Apollinopolis parva . 413
Medam8t . . .414

Ababdeh desert. Emerald and
other mines. Roads to the
ancient sea-ports . .415

Road from Coptos to Berenice . 417
Nechesia and the Leucosportus . 419
The emerald mines: temple and

stations on the road to them . 420
Saltness of the water of the Red
Sea . . . 422