The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . temple has beeu known since the beginning of the century, and the Louvre is in possessionof some fragments from it whicli came from Salts collection; it was rediscovered in 1870, and someportions of it were transferred by Marittte to the Boulaq Jluseum (Brugsoh, An den Herausgeher, inthe Zeitschrift, 187], pp. 87,88 ; E. Brugsch, On et Onioii,m the Eecueil de Traraux, vol. viii. pp. 1-11;Maspeuo, Guide du Visiteur, pp. 109, 241). The remainder was destroyed by the fellahin, at theinstigation of the eiiliglitened amateurs of Cairo, and f

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The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . temple has beeu known since the beginning of the century, and the Louvre is in possessionof some fragments from it whicli came from Salts collection; it was rediscovered in 1870, and someportions of it were transferred by Marittte to the Boulaq Jluseum (Brugsoh, An den Herausgeher, inthe Zeitschrift, 187], pp. 87,88 ; E. Brugsch, On et Onioii,m the Eecueil de Traraux, vol. viii. pp. 1-11;Maspeuo, Guide du Visiteur, pp. 109, 241). The remainder was destroyed by the fellahin, at theinstigation of the eiiliglitened amateurs of Cairo, and fragments of it liave passed into variousprivate collections (Hayter-Lewis, Tel el-Yahudah—the Mouud of the Jew —in the TransncUonof the Bibl. Arch. Soc, vol. vii. pp. 177-192). Xaville, The Mound of the Jew and the City of Onias,pp. .5-12, was the last to explore it. The decoration has been attributed to ChaldsDan Influence, but it isa work purely Egyptian, both iu style and in teclinique (Maspero, ArchifoJogie Egyptienne, pp. 257-259). ly;. 1 Wir h iW&W^^^m)

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