Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte . 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 ofTeringt
Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte . 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. Pis. 3. Cette stèle a été enlevée et transportée au Musée au printemps de 1908. Elleporte le n° 363ai dentrée. — G. M. — 175 — were (hère something should be done to prevent any danger of their failing,so wooden struls were made lo support them, as foHows : A. Great Hypostyle Hall. — Lintei of right hand gateway, and architravebetween first columns on left hand side. B. Small Hypostyle Hall. — Four architraves. Though thèse struts in ail cases are really only temporary, I hâve madeand painted them so as not to disfigure the monument too much, and thereis no immédiate necessitv for any of them to be replaced with proper ironwork; but, in the case of the enclosure wall, hoth faces being elaboratelyinscribed, it should eventually be either pulled down and rebuilt or madesecure bv filling in ihe cracks with cément and a masonry foot made forits support on the inner face below the dado. The cost of the workwas : 1. Timber and freighl 23 gâg m. ^ 2. Miscl. : Mal
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