THE ANTIQUITIES OF UPPER EGYPT FROM ABYDOS TO THE SUDAN BY ARTHUR E. P. WEIGALL INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF UPPER EGYPT, DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES WITH 69 MAPS AND PLANS STANFORD LIBRARY NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY ΤΟ JAMES HENRY BREASTED PH.D., ETC. PROFESSOR OF EGYPTOLOGY AND ORIENTAL HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED PREFACE HIS volume has been prepared for the use of visitors THIS to the monuments of Upper Egypt, that is to say, all those situated between Balianeh, the southernmost town of Middle Egypt, and Adendân, the last Egyptian village on this side of the Sudan frontier. The majority of visitors, after leaving Cairo and its neighbourhood, do not make more than one or two excursions in Middle Egypt; and the fact that the present writer has not the opportunity to describe the ancient sites between Cairo and Balianeh, will not be found greatly to lessen the scope of the book. The only claim which is made for this Guide is that each chapter has been written actually in, or in a few cases a stone's throw away from, the temples or tombs therein described. The information supplied is derived from careful and prolonged personal observation and thought, checked and augmented by the study of the handful of pertinent books which alone could be carried; and there is no antiquity or ancient site, however small, |