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maledictions, was perpetrated by persons searching for 

 treasures, who were ignorant of the purport of the inscrip- 

 tion. But although his funeral bed has been disturbed and 

 his sarcophagus carried away, it will never suffer the in- 

 dignity of being placed upon that of another ! but will 

 have a lasting repose in the French capital, among the 

 treasured ruins of Egypt and Assyria. 



The Abbe devotes several concluding pages to specula- 

 tions upon the age of the monument, which he fixes at 350 

 B. c, and to conjectures upon the contemporaneous history 

 of the monarch. The work is deposited in the Institute 

 library, where it will be accessible to any one who may have 

 occasion to consult it. 



