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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to this succeeded the two pyramidal towers of
the propylon: the area, with eight Osiride figures
attached to the pillars supporting the architraves
and roofs of the lateral corridors; and the interior
chambers, which are now closed by the drifted sand.
Amunre and Ra were the chief deities, and from
the worship of the god of Thebes the town bore the
same name as that city—Amunei, or " the abode of
Amun."

The natives of the modern village, and of the
district around it, are of Arab extraction, and speak
that language.

The river at Malkeh takes a considerable bend ;
and from Korosko * to Derr f the direction is about
N.N.W., which often detains boats for a considerable
time.

At Hassaia J is a small temple called A'mada, of
the early era of the third Thothmes. The names
of his son Amunoph II., and his grandson Thothmes
IV., also occur in the sculptures, which are re-
markable for the preservation of their colors,
owing no doubt to the mortar with which the early
Christians, abhorring the objects of worship of their
pagan predecessors, had covered and concealed

* From near this the road to Aboo Hammed and Sennar turns
off through the desert.

f Corrupted from E'Dayr," the convent."

X On the opposite bank, at a place called El Kharib, between
Korosko and Derr, are said to be some ruins, but I have not
visited them.