Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte . 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
Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte . 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. F%. s. that the prevailing wind would tend to carry it away rather than return it to the temple. Diiring the excavation between the girdie and enclosure walls, a large and very fine sandstone stela was found lying on the ground level, which had evidently been originally fixed on the inner face of the girdie walland in the axis of the temple. Three stonesteps which led up to the stela werestill in situ (. The stela measures0 m. 18 c. X 0 m. 1 8 c. X o m. /lo c. andbas a centre recess containing two Unesof bas-relief representing the king ofTeringto différent gods, the bottom Une bearingthe cartouches of Hadrian on eilher side;aljove, are two cornices supporled bypapyrus columns and ornamented withthe winged disk and pendent uraei. Ahovethèse again is a frieze of there were several architraves and lintels in the temple, cracked and in a more or less dangerous condition, it was decided that while the men
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