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Title: By Nile and Tigris : a narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British Museum between the years 1886 and 1913
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934
Subjects: Egypt -- Antiquities Egypt -- Description and travel Iraq -- Description and travel Iraq -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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locked with sand, and the great stone stairwayand the ledge above it were filled with sand and stoneswhich had slid down from the top of the hill, and thetombs were practically inaccessible. Soon after my return to Luxor I set out with somenatives one evening for the place on the western bankwhere the finds of papyri had been made. Here Ifound a rich store of fine and rare objects, and amongthem the largest roll of papyrus I had ever seen. Theroll was tied round with a thick band of papyrus cord,and was in a perfect state of preservation, and the clayseal which kept together the ends of the cord was un-broken. The roll lay in a rectangular niche in the northwall of the sarcophagus chamber, among a few hardstone amulets. It seemed like sacrilege to break the sealand untie the cord, but when I had copied the name onthe seal, I did so, for otherwise it would have been impos-sible to find out the contents of the papyrus. We unrolleda few feet of the papyrus an inch or so at a time, for it
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m Iaiiittd limestone stele of Sebek-hetep, scribe of tfie royal wine cellar. .Wllltli dynasty. Drit. Mas., No. 136S. To face p. 137, vol. i.

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