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A Foundation-Deposit Inscription from Abydos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Extract

While excavating on the temenos wall of the great temple of Sety I at Abydos in Upper Egypt, Mr. A. St. G. Caulfeild found the foundations of a stone pylon, a fragment of a great lintel, inscribed by Ptolemy IV, Philopator, and a small limestone block here figured.

This block was probably a foundation-deposit; the inscription is incised; the surface has been gilded. It seems probable that it refers to the building by Philopator.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1902

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