CHAP. II.-SAN XIXDEE THE EJIPIEE. 
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Ea, Sntekh, Har, Shu, Seb, and Sutekh of Upper 
Egypt, may be still seen. 
There is an unusually small obelisk on the 
north of the sanctuary (241), which was apparently 
an original work of Eamessn; it is only 15 inches 
wide. At (176) is a base of an obelisk, with 
inscriptions of Siamen added on the sides. There 
are several large ai'chitrave blocks lying here 
(240, 247, 200, 194, &c.); these perhaps belonged 
to the roofing or to the colonnade of the sanctuary. 
The re-worked obelisk of Ramessu II. (261) seems 
by its place as if it was one of a pair of small 
obelisks at the back of the sanctuarjf. 
26. There do not seem to be any remains 
between the group of blocks just behind the 
sanctuary, and the pair of obelisks at the east end. 
At (269) is the head and chest of a figure of 
Eamessu II. in red granite; and at (279) a fragment 
of the base of a statue in black granite, with 
traces of an inscription of the twelfth dynasty 
by the side of the feet, and of a Eamesside in¬ 
scription on the front, but this has doubtless 
been removed from the line of early statues. 
The base of the southern obelisk (277) has 
apparently not been moved, or but slightly so ; 
while the base of the northern (273) is somewhat 
tipped over. On cutting into the accumulated 
earth the original limestone pavement of the temple 
was found on both sides ; on the north side (274) 
it is made of earlier blocks, as one stone bears the 
signs ta ankh on il; and on the south side the pave¬ 
ment was found in the corner of the ■ enclosure, 
with apparently the base of a wall of limestone 
around it, marked on the Plan by a black line. 
26. The general history of the whole area has 
still to be worked out. No early remains were 
found in the excavations of 1884, which are 
marked on the Plan. At the end of the temple 
axis I had a tunnel cut into the wall of crude 
bricks. This wall is about 80 feet thick, so by a 
tunnel 40 feet long the centre of it was reached. 
It proved to be entirely built by Pisebkhanu, every 
brick bearing his cartouche stamped upon it. The 
highest part of the w'all (at the south-east corner) 
is still 25 feet high, although it has been much 
ruined and washed down by the rains, so that all 
the temple area is filled with its mud. If we grant 
that it originally averaged 45 feet high, 70 feet 
thick, and 3400 feet in length—an estimate rather 
under than over the truth—there must have been 
over twenty millions of these large bricks stamped 
by Pisebkhanu; the bricks varying from 16’6 to 
18’0 long, 8'4 to 8'7 wide, and 6 0 to 6T thick. 
The temple does not seem to have had any 
great enclosure in Eamesside times, as the wall 
of Pisebkhanu appears to be a work de novo. 
But this great wall certainly went around the 
outline marked on the Plan, as the stamped bricks 
were found at the north gate, at the north-east 
corner, at the east wall, at the south-east corner, 
at the excavation by the house (j), and near the 
south-west corner. Part of the wall had, how¬ 
ever, been ruined within a few centuries of 
its being built, as all the north side, except 
a few ' courses at the base, is built of rather 
smaller bricks, inferior in quality, and without 
any stamp upon them. As there is no sign 
of Ptolemaic or later alteration to the temple, this 
rebuilding must belong to some intermediate king, 
and it seems most likely to be attributable to 
Sheshonk III., who built the great pylon. Why 
the wall was so curiously irregular in shape 
it is hard to say. The end wall is scrupu¬ 
lously square with the axis of the temple (the 
error being within the variations of the work, 
certainly not 10' of angle), and the beginning of 
the north and south walls from the east wall is prac¬ 
tically parallel to the axis; but the reasons for 
placing the north wall so much further from the 
temple than the south wall, and for running the 
south wall askew can be only conjectured. In the 
north-east corner there is a pavement under about 
18 feet of earth, even below the level of the base 
of the wall, in which I found a block re-worked with 
part of the cartouches of Sheshonk I., II., or III. 
This shows that the pavement is of a later time, 
and if Pisebkhanu extended his wallas far as this in 
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