APPENDIX C. 
RECENT EGYPTIAN DISCOVERIES. 
The work of excavating the ruins of the Great Temple of 
Bubastis, which were discovered last year by M. Naville, has lately 
been resumed with very interesting and important results. 
Last year two great halls had been discovered—a_ grand 
hypostyle hall, strewn with fallen monolithic columns of the 
12th dynasty workmanship, and a hall without columns, but 
lined with elaborate bas-relief sculptures, representing a great 
religious ceremony, and containing tens of thousands of minutely- 
executed hieroglyphic inscriptions. A third hall, dating from the 
reign of Osorkon I. has now been found between the hypostyle hall 
of Rameses II. and the festival hall of Osorkon II. The roof was 
supported by two large columns with palm capitals, and the walls 
were sculptured with bas-reliefs on a large scale, representing 
Orsokon I, in the act of worshipping Bast and the other deities of 
the city. Eastward,—that is to say, at the end by which the © 
temple was entered,—two parallel trenches have revealed the site of 
a colonnade ; and here the base of a statue of Nectanebo I., has 
been found : thus showing that he made additions to both extremities 
of the structure. The western end, now in course of excavation, 
appears to be of great width ; but its length is as yet not ascer- 
tained. That it contains the sanctuary may be taken for granted, 
and the sanctuary is probably the work of Nectanebo. 
Within the hall a series of remarkable discoveries have been made, 
showing that Bubastis was the site of an important settlement. 
They consist of two black granite statues, of the unmistakable 
Hyksos types ; the lower half of a seated statue of an unknown 
King, also of Hyksos work; and a fine red granite architrave 
engraved with the cartouche of Apepi, the most famous of the 
Hyksos rulers. The third of these, the statue broken off at the 
waist, is the most remarkable of them. M. Naville, writing in 
April this year, 1888, sends the following description :— 
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