. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . the whole of thatpart of the building into which the passage leads shows traces of having been hastily executed,and at a time long after the construction of the rest of the edifice ; it is possible that the presentcondition of the place does not date back further than the time of the Antonines, when the Sphinxwas cleared for the last time in ancient days. 3 The temple was in tolerably good condition at the end of the XVIIth century, as appears from acontemporary description (Le Mascbieret de Maillet, Description de VÉgypte, 1735,first part, p. 2
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . the whole of thatpart of the building into which the passage leads shows traces of having been hastily executed,and at a time long after the construction of the rest of the edifice ; it is possible that the presentcondition of the place does not date back further than the time of the Antonines, when the Sphinxwas cleared for the last time in ancient days. 3 The temple was in tolerably good condition at the end of the XVIIth century, as appears from acontemporary description (Le Mascbieret de Maillet, Description de VÉgypte, 1735,first part, p. 223,V 4 Fi,. Petrie, Ten Years Digging in Egypt, pp. 22, 23. I have put it together, and have had therestoration of the whole reproduced as a tail-piece to p. 442 of this History. 5 Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by Emil Brugsch-Bey (cf. Gréiîaut, Le Musée Egyptien,pl. viii.). See on p. 379 of this History the carefully executed drawing of the best preserved amongthe diorite statues which the Gizeh Museum now possesses of this
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