. Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte . papyri was discovered here and sent to summer, 1906, Mohamed Efïendi Chaban, In-spector of the Service at Zagazig, made a smallexcavation near the place of the former visited the site on the last day of the excavationand took a few notes which may be worth place excavated lies a few yards N. E. of thespot where ihe first lot of papyri was found. Threechambers were cleared oui (see plan, fig. 1). Theyare built of mud bricks, baked red on the outside bythe fire which deslroyed the papyri. The southchamber con
. Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte . papyri was discovered here and sent to summer, 1906, Mohamed Efïendi Chaban, In-spector of the Service at Zagazig, made a smallexcavation near the place of the former visited the site on the last day of the excavationand took a few notes which may be worth place excavated lies a few yards N. E. of thespot where ihe first lot of papyri was found. Threechambers were cleared oui (see plan, fig. 1). Theyare built of mud bricks, baked red on the outside bythe fire which deslroyed the papyri. The southchamber contained nothing, but the floors of theother two were covered with charred remains of m ri-tings. There was also a good deal of burned wood. The papyri were in ahopeless condition. Most of the lower ones were reduced by fire and dampto a mass of white fibrous pulp. The upper parts consisted of soft charredlumps witli which nothing can be donc. Only a very few fragments werein such a condition that the leaves could be flaked off. A few coins were. 0. 1. î. 3. 4. S. Fig. u — 155 — [2] picked up near the papyri. The only two that I could identify withoutfurther cleaning were (i) Aurelian and Vaballathus L A and (2) Probus. In the N. A^ . corner of the middle chamber was a large roU of papyrus,burned throughoul to a white ash, with some clay sealings adhering to this to pièces I found about seventy of thèse seaiings mixed upwith the ash. They ail bore the impression of a sheet of papyrus on theback and had evidentiy been affixed to some documents. There was noimpression of string on them, hence it was not for tving up the papersthat they were used. Below is a list of the subjects which I bave been ableto make out. Though the same subject often recurs, there are not manvacfual duplicates from the same seal. I. Head of Sarapis to right, wearing Similar to n 1 ; of varions sizes. 7. Bearded head to right, wearing hair-band and hemliem crown :Harpokrates of
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