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)

498 FERAYQ, FA Kit AS. [Chap. VII.

also holds a conspicuous place here; as well as
Kneph, Khem, Osiris, and Isis. The total depth
of this excavation, from the door, is about two
hundred feet, without the colossi and slope of the
facade; and a short distance to the south are some
hieroglyphic tablets on the rock, bearing the date
of the thirty-eighth year of the same Remeses.

Nearly opposite Aboo Simbel is Ferayq, a small
excavated temple, consisting of a hall, supported
by four columns, two side chambers or wings, and
an adytum. It has the name and sculptures of the
successor of Amunoph III., and was dedicated to
Amunre and Kneph.

Parras, on the west bank, is supposed to be the
Phthuris of Pliny; and from the many sculptured
blocks and columns there, it is evident that some
ancient town existed on that spot; though, judging
from the style, they appear to belong to a Roman
rather than an Egyptian epoch.

A little to the south is a small grotto with hiero-
glyphics of the time of Remeses II.; and in the
hills to the westward are some chambers, hewn in
the rock, with several Coptic inscriptions; from one
of which, bearing the name of Diocletian, it would
seem that they served as places of refuge, during
some of the early persecutions of the Christians.
To the south-west are ruins of baked brick, with
stone columns, of the low ages.

At Serra are the remains of what was once
perhaps a quay ; but there are no ruins of any