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Title: Travels in the Upper Egyptian deserts
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Weigall, Arthur Edward Pearse Brome, 1880-1934
Subjects: Egypt -- Description and travel Egypt -- Antiquities
Publisher: Edinburgh London, W. Blackwood and sons
Contributing Library: New York University, Institute of Fine Arts Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, finished the build-ing, and perhaps re-established the gold workingsalong the Wady Abad route, for on one of thepillars of the hall of the desert shrine there is aninscription written by an official which reads: Bringing the gold for the festival in the templeof Eameses II. Since that time until the present day the godsin the sanctuary have looked out at a long streamof travellers, soldiers, miners, and officials. Uponthe rocks and on the walls of the temple there areseveral hieroglyphical and Greek inscriptions whichtell of the coming of all manner of people. A chiefof the custodians of El Kab here records his name, archaic drawings of sacred boats, animals,etc., on rocks near temple of wadyabAd. J5 4) 7-, 8, 9, ii, 12, 14. North face of cliff, east of Temple.— Page 157.2, 3, 6, 10, 15, 16, 17. Larger of two fallen rocks, east of Temple. — Page 157.5. West face of cliff projection, east of Temple.— Page 157.13. Smaller of two fallen rocks, east of Temple.—Page 157. Pl. xxx.
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Pl. xxx. The Temple of Wady Abad. 163 and a scribe of the kings troops is immortalisednear by. Many of the Greek inscriptions are ex-votos dedicated to Pan, with whom the old Minhad been identified; and as the latter was the godof desert travel, so the sprightly Pan becomes thesober patron of the roads. Miners from Syracuseand from Crete tell of their advent; and onetraveller describes himself as an Indian, a voyager,perhaps, in one of those trading vessels whichbrought to the port of Berenice the riches of theEast, to be conveyed across this great desert to themarkets of Alexandria. A man named Dorionstates that he had returned in safety from anelephant hunt, probably in the south. Two in-scriptions are written by Jews, thanking God fortheir safe journeys; and it is interesting to noticethat one of them is called Theodotus, son ofDorion, and the other Ptolemy, son of Dionysius—all pagan names. A troop of Greek soldiers haverecorded their names in the temple, and state thatthey kept

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