Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte . m. ] Surveillance for Ihe years 1 go 1-1902 677 m. Total 25o L. E. 248 m. Included in the above cost many miner repairs hâve been made, suchas the great court levelled \\[l\\ sand; a wooden barrier put on the roofover kiosque lo prevent any chance of visitors falling over; ail the largeholes in the Mails and colonnades thaï harboured birds filled up, and thetemple generally cleaned. II. KOM OMBO. In the month of May 1909 about 3o mètres of the mud brick girdlewall at the back of the temple fell, owing to the enormous weight of — 173 — sa
Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte . m. ] Surveillance for Ihe years 1 go 1-1902 677 m. Total 25o L. E. 248 m. Included in the above cost many miner repairs hâve been made, suchas the great court levelled \\[l\\ sand; a wooden barrier put on the roofover kiosque lo prevent any chance of visitors falling over; ail the largeholes in the Mails and colonnades thaï harboured birds filled up, and thetemple generally cleaned. II. KOM OMBO. In the month of May 1909 about 3o mètres of the mud brick girdlewall at the back of the temple fell, owing to the enormous weight of — 173 — sand that had drifted up~against its NorthEast face; about 95 mètres ofihe sandslone enclosure wall of ihe tempie were dispiaced and fracturedby the fall and lefl so much out of the vertical that it would bave been dan-gerous to remove tbe falien débris from the inside face wilhout giving somenew means of support. After mv report to the Director General, it wasdecided that the wall wasunsafe, so, inAugust 1902,(fig. 1 ) tbe débris was. Fig. carefuUy removed from both faces, bit bv bit, and 5 heavy wooden strutsplaced on its inner face to support it (fig. 2). The great mass of débriswas then removed from between the enclosure and girdie walis, makingthe whole temporarily safe (fig. 3). Before the excavation, the débris 17/1 from the failen miid brick girdie wall, on the ieft, tolally fiiled up ihe space Letween the two walls, the sandstone enclosure wall on the right being completely buried. The distant part of the girdie wall still intact gives an idea of its height and what it was like before the fall. The dangerous parts of the girdie wall was then puHed down and the great mass of sand, on its north east face removed; the sand being thrown to some distance away to the east, so
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