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painted in green, the eyes are inlaid, and the face gilded. (Ptolemaic 

 epoch.) 



Gournah (January-April, 1894). — The campaign at Gournah was one 

 of the least productive. Its yield consists of two pits each inclosing a 

 sarcophagus, without importance, of a priest of Amnion. A covered 

 tomb with fine paintings was also cleared, but I was obliged to fill up 

 the entrance. 



Karnali. — Two colossal statues were removed from the temple of 

 Karnak and are now deposited in the museum of Gizeh. The one, in 

 solid sandstone, represents King Seti II (nineteenth dynasty). It was 

 placed in the hypostyle under the debris of a pylon. The waters cov- 

 ered it every year. The other, located in 1892, is of rose granite. It 

 was placed near and facing the great pylon. It represents a certain 

 Amen-Hotep, scribe of the eighteenth dynasty. 



Gebelein (March, 1893). — These excavations have not yielded notable 

 results. They have revealed some fragments of a monument of the 

 eleventh dynasty and a stone bearing the cartouche of King Khian. 



Hassaya. — The Grseco Boman necropolis, which seemed to be ex- 

 hausted, has, however, produced many Greek or Egyptian steles of the 

 latter epoch. Two seasons of excavation have been had at this point, 

 one in April, 1893, the other during the early months of the year 1894. 



Kom-Ombos. — While I was occupied with the clearing of the temple 

 (January-March, 1893), I had some excavations made in the necropolis, 

 where I established the existence of numerous sepultures of the Ptole- 

 maic epoch of little interest. Besides, I found in tombs, similar to 

 those of human mummies, a mass of animal mummies. They included 

 snakes, mice, hawks, gazelles, rams, and more often crocodiles, some 

 of which have a length of 5 meters. 



Assouan (January, 1893). — Several tombs belonging to the sixth and 

 the twelfth dynasty have been discovered. They contained only objects 

 of little importance. 



Island of Sehel. — While we were uncovering all the monuments of 

 that region, for the purpose of preparing the first volume of the Cata- 

 logue of Monuments and Inscriptions of Ancient Egypt, I discovered 

 the ruins of a chapel dedicated to the goddess Anoukit. Unfortunately 

 this little monument is destroyed in such a manner that it has not been 

 possible to recover its primitive function. 



THE CLEARING AND STRENGTHENING OF THE MONUMENTS. 



Gizeh. — The temple of the Sphinx, long since discovered, had been 

 entirely cleared by Mariette. But since that time the sands of the des- 

 ert, driven by the wind, have accumulated and obstruct more than half 

 of the monument. These chambers were again cleared up during the 

 summer of 1892, and are open to the public. 



Abou-Sir (August-October, 1893). — The mastaba of Ptah-Chepses, 

 recently discovered, has undergone the most necessary repairs. Two 



