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Highest point of base of obelisk (Plan 79) . 300 
Block near statue (Plan 103) . . ■ 311 
Block near statue (Plan 102) . . . 324 
Usertesen I. (Plan 101) .... 331 
South Murmasbau (Plan 98) . . . 330 
North Murmashau (Plan 86) . . . . 313 
Top of stone of Merenptah, built in by Siamen 
(Plan 226). 319 
Top of granite base of Siamen (Plan 187) . 394 
Siamen’s pavement ..... 347 
Pavement in trench (Plan 274) . . . 330 
Highest of block (Plan 275) .... 273 
Next, the levels of the sand below the remains, 
as far as known:— 
In the temple near (113) the sand rises to . 300 
In pit a little ■west of (167), clean sand 
found down to .... . 140 
In north-west mounds, sand at . . 177 ± 10 
At north-east corner ..... 289 
In pit to the south of temple wall . . 212 
At base of great wall on south-east . . 350 
(Some way south and north of temple it rises 500 or 
600. Western pits, in line of approach to temple, go down 
to mud : no sand above water level, say 50 or 60.) 
The stone well in the plain some way south of 
the pylon, which is of Greek age, stands thus 
(within 10 inches):— 
Ground on surface ..... 516 
Top of well wall.281 
Top of door in well ..... 101 
Top of doorway in square shaft . . • 156 
Water now about.10 
Thus agreeing with the water-level in the other 
well already stated, and showing a rise of water 
level to 79 in. above river in a distance of a few 
hundred yards. 
The shafts sunk in the north-western Ptolemaic 
mounds showed nothing but brick walls and ruins 
of walls; their levels are (within 10 inches);— 
Ground by northern hole .... 537 
Sand in bottom of hole . . • ■ HI 
Ground by southern hole .... 501 
Bottom, still in mud. 
Shaft behind my house in the south-western 
mounds is roughly about 550 in. on surface, and 
going down 32 feet it reaches about 166, or 
below the base of the opposite north-western 
mounds. The house is about 735 level. 
The levels of the shaft sunk south of the east 
end of the temple, in the plain near the Ptolemaic 
temple, are (within 8 inches) :•—■ 
Ground at surface ..... 524 
Broken stones.512 to 500 
Dust. 500 to 452 
Mud. 452 to 440 
Brick wall. 440 to 344 
Mud. 344 to 308 
Brick wall down to sand . . . 308 to 212 
Ptolemaic pavement, about .... 340 
Surface by that pavement .... 485 
Lowest point of eastern gap in mounds . . 554 
Lowest point of southern gap in mounds . 549 
Lowest point of western gap in mounds . . 214 
(at first pit, but slopes down to Nile). 
Leaving absolute levels, we will turn to some 
details of the depths of shafts. In the north¬ 
western mound (as above) the shafts were 30 feet 
and 26 feet deep, though begun where the mound 
was low; in the ground at the foot of the mound, 
near the pylon, a pit went down to water-level in 
made soil entirely, with Eoman brick pavement 
near the surface. In the pits in the approach to 
the temple we always went down to either sand or 
water; these pits, beginning with that in which 
the statue lies, are 16^ feet deep to sand, next hut 
one 18 feet to water, next 17 feet to water, next 
141 feet to water, and last one 14 feet to water, 
the differences depending on the slope of the 
ground. In the south-western mound behind my 
house, and about 15 feet lower, a shaft was sunk 
32 feet deep. The shaft to the southern well is 
19L feet to the top of the well, or 37 feet to the 
water. The shaft near the Ptolemaic temple is 
26 feet deep to the sand. A shaft in the south¬ 
western corner of the temple enclosure goes 17| 
feet to sand, but Greek pottery is found at 14^ 
feet deep. The trenches north of the hall of 
columns are 10 to 24 feet deep ; this great depth 
being just beside the stone staircase down to the 
well, where the sand dips down very much, as if 
there had been an old well or excavation in earlier 
times. A shaft between the temple and the 
northern gate is in dust for 5 feet, and then goes 
to 17 feet deep in undisturbed clean sand; this 
was cut in order to really see that the sand did 
not cover anything else, hut was, as I supposed, 
washed sand, which is far firmer and larger grain 
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