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than wind-blown sand. Mariette’s great hole in 
the north-eastern corner is 18 feet deep, and my 
pits on the east of it are 18 to 20 feet deep. The 
pit by the great wall there is 12 feet deep to sand, 
but was carried down to 18 feet to see if anything 
underlay it. The pit a little north of the group 
of houses (H) on Plan goes to 18 feet, showing 
broken up pavement at the bottom. Most of the 
cuttings made go to 10 or 16 feet deep; and these 
depths will show that more has been done than 
merely scratching the surface. In the valley 
running south of the pylon pits were cut to 15 feet, 
finding late Eoman brick at 12 feet; to 24 feet, 
finding Eoman or Greek pottery at bottom; and 
a little more to the east, a pit 23 feet deep, yielded 
at 19 feet, a piece of painted pottery, which may 
perhaps go back to the twenty-first dynasty. In the 
avenue of granite blocks of Ptolemaic age, in the 
plain nearly half a mile south of the temple, I sunk 
several pits; one goes 16feet to wet sandymud, from 
3 to 6 feet being through much pottery of perhaps 
the Saitic period; another pit went to 12 feet, 
through black mud to the water; another 111 feet 
to the water, all black mud. The brick enclosure 
by that avenue is filled with sand, though made in 
a region of black mud; the walls are 12^ feet 
high, and the sand filled into the space is mixed 
in parts with chips and earth. Fuller details of 
this place must be worked out for the plans of it 
which will appear in future. 
The following are the weights found at San. 
Besides stating their present weight, I have care¬ 
fully estimated their original weight: this is done 
by picking a minute hole through the patina until 
the metal is reached, and measuring the thickness 
of the scale; thus knowing its volume, its specific 
gravity, and its chemical formula, the gain by 
oxygen, carbonic acid, &c. can be allowed for; 
and account must also be taken of the loss by 
solution from lead weights. 
Material. 
Grains 
Note. 
Weight 
Original. 
Multiple of Unit. 
Remarks. 
Bronze. 
727-6 
716 
5 kats . . 
. 143-2 
\ All found together. 
» 
288-7 
287-3 
2 kats . . 
. 143-6 
[ Ptolemaic. 
5J 
149-6 
147-7 
1 kat . . 
. 147-7 
) Mean kat 144-4. 
145-6 
144‘4 
1 kat . . 
. 144-4 
Ptolemaic. 
« 
141-5 
139-2 
1 kat . . 
. 139-2 
Barrel, Assyrian type. 
14-3 
14-3 
To kat . . 
. 143- 
Cube. 
Granite. 
6296-6 
6297- 
50 shekels 1 . 
. 125-9 
Pind 35, 2nd century. 
Lead. 
241-4 
241-0 
2 shekels . 
. 120-5 
Bent sheet. 
Bronze. 
129-3 
126-4 
1 shekel 
. 126-4 
) 
> Egyptian domed type. 
63-0 
62-1 
^ shekel 
. 124-2 
j 
13-1 
12-6 
shekel 1 . 
. 13-1 
Disc. 
Limestone. 
4156-3 
4158- 
50 sigli . . 
. 83-2 
Domed type. 
)> 
334-9 
340- 
4 sigli . . 
. 84-0 
» }» 
Bronze. 
87-9 
80-9 
1 siglos. . 
. 80-9 
Square sheet. 
.. 
95-6 
86-0 
1 siglos . . 
. 86 0 
„ Find 35, 2nd cent. 
Lead. 
85-7 
84-0 
1 siglos . 
. 84-0 
Bent sheet. 
Bronze. 
25-2 
21-9 
1 siglos . . 
. 87-6 
Cube, Ptolemaic, find 54. 
Lead. 
192-8 
197-0 
Tridrachm . 
. 65-7 
Square, 6 = 9 dioboli 1 
5 > 
62-8 
66-0 
Attic drachm 
. 66-0 
Bent sheet. 
