. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . likesummer, the mountain was on fire, and the vein exhausted ; one morning theoverseer who was there questioned the miners, the skilled workers who were 1 For Sarbût-el-Khâdîm and its history, see Birchs short summary, Egyptian Remains, in theAccount of the Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai, ch. vii. pp. 180-182. 2 See an undated inscription, and one dated the XXIVth year of Amenemhâît IL, near thereservoir of Sarbût-el-Khâdîm (Birch, Egyptian Remains, in the Account of the Survey, ch. 183). S ARB ÛT-EL-KHÂDIM AND ITS CHAPEL. 475 used to t
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . likesummer, the mountain was on fire, and the vein exhausted ; one morning theoverseer who was there questioned the miners, the skilled workers who were 1 For Sarbût-el-Khâdîm and its history, see Birchs short summary, Egyptian Remains, in theAccount of the Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai, ch. vii. pp. 180-182. 2 See an undated inscription, and one dated the XXIVth year of Amenemhâît IL, near thereservoir of Sarbût-el-Khâdîm (Birch, Egyptian Remains, in the Account of the Survey, ch. 183). S ARB ÛT-EL-KHÂDIM AND ITS CHAPEL. 475 used to the mine, and they said : There is turquoise for eternity in themountain. At that very moment the vein appeared. And, indeed, the wealthof the deposit which he found so completely indemnified Haroëris for his firstdisappointments, that in the month Pachons, three months after the opening ofthese workings, he had finished his task and prepared to leave the country,carrying his spoils with From time to time Pharaoh sent convoys of. THE RUINS OP THE TEMPLE OF HÂTHOR AT SARBÛT-EL-KHÂDÎ cattle and provisions —corn, sixteen oxen, thirty geese, fresh vegetables, livepoultry—to his vassals at the The mining population increased so fastthat two chapels were built, dedicated to Hâthor, and served by One of these chapels, presumably the oldest, consists of a singlerock-cut chamber, upheld by one large square pillar, walls and pillar havingbeen covered with finely sculptured scenes and inscriptions which are nowalmost effaced. The second chapel included a beautifully proportionedrectangular court, once entered by a portico supported on pillars withHâthor-head capitals, and beyond the court a narrow building divided intomany small irregular chambers. The edifice was altered and rebuilt, andhalf destroyed ; it is now nothing but a confused heap of ruins, of whichthe original plan cannot be traced. Votive stelas of all shapes and sizes,
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