1892.] 
W. Hoey —Set Mahet. 
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square enclosure, which were probably among the oldest, if not part of 
the original, buildings. In these long buried ruins I found crystal 
markers for playing pachisi , also some of clay, and a curious glass plate 
about \ inch thick perforated with five holes in the form of a quincunx. 
These old remains have not been mapped in yet, but are among the most 
interesting remains laid bare. One of the most curious relics found in 
them was a heap of charred rice, the form of each grain being preserved 
fresh as if of yesterday. 
Buildings 2, 3, 4, 5, of my numbering, are not of any importance. 
Building G was discovered by me deep under the earth and is 
unquestionably of great antiquity. I have exposed the enclosing walls. 
The bricks and the style of building point to antiquity, the former being 
large and massive and and the mode of construction being by ‘ off-set ’ 
walls, that is, the bricks being set in a graduated form so as to widen 
out the wall like a staircase at the base. This v as necessary to resist 
the action of the water in the low level of this ill-drained site. Most 
buildings found concealed at a great depth in Set are built thus. In the 
east wall of this building I found a fragment of a Buddhist railing. In 
the west side I found lying, apparently where it had fallen by accident, 
an ancient seal. 
The building Ho. 7 is that which General Cunningham terms the 
Gandha Kuti. The name may be allowed to adhere, though in the 
present stage of our exploration we are not in a position to impose the 
name with a certainty of accuracy on any particular building. I must, 
however, here point again to the error into which General Cunningham 
falls in supposing that a large room with four low pillar shafts is neces¬ 
sarily ‘ a hall with the remnants of pillars to support a roof.’ In this 
case I am almost sure the large chamber of what he calls the Gandha 
Kuti is a late Hindu addition. I have removed all the earth round the 
building as it now stands, and I have found that the square block or 
cell on the west is quite a separate building from the rest. Its base is 
built of off-set walls, as I have already described in the case of building 
Ho. 6, while the character of the architecture of the large middle cham¬ 
ber is wholly different and its style modern. In the small eastern 
part, which seems to have been a vestibule in later times, there are 
traces which indicate that it contained portions of an older construc¬ 
tion. 
I cleared all round the mound and I exposed several bases of pillars 
of two dimensions. They were of brick, the bricks being well curved 
and calculated to a nicety to suit the pillars for which they were intend¬ 
ed. But all these pillars seemed to be of late date. On the south I 
noticed one base of a pillar of much larger dimensions on which a later 
