The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-13

threatened to come down, and this en- ormous piece of stone had also to os re- moved.
 owing to the inpossibility of ,anlov- ing this huge block, which weighs 42 tons, it was necessary to resort to the original method whereby the old Egyp- tians erected the monuments which are the wonder and admiration of the mod ern world. Accordingly M. Legfain made a huge inclined plane Wnien re- quired 100000 cubic metres of earth for it's construction. The architrave was taken down by this means and the en- ormous accumulation of soil which it's removal necessitated is now being gradually removed. The following fig ures will give some idea of the immenae labor involved. Each column has an abacus 12 1-2 tons. and 19 seslnents, IA tons or 27 pieces altogether. There are, therefore, 729 pieces to be found from out of the mass of ruin which the Hy- postyle Hall now presents and to be numbered and taken away to the depot, and 4I2 still remain to be discovered and removed, without counting the archi- traves, which weigh 50 tons or p tons each. On an average six of these blocks are removed every day, and assuming that the rate of progress is normal, 1t will be eighty days before The hall can be cleared.
 It is an immense labor, for !acE bloek has to be methodically arranged and numbered and placed i'll reserved space until the time comes for all tc De pieced together. Many hundreds ak Workmen are employed. Each man received Sd. a day and each 3-4d oy April 1 it is hoped to have everything removed from the Hypostyle, Hal. At- ter this has been done commission will come to Luxor to study the Ioun- dations and arrive at the .4ecessary means of consolidating the whole IF the summer the hall will be left to dry and work will be recommended as soon as the Nile flood permits. By May, 1904 it is hoped that everything VIII be finished As visitors enter the lily postyle Hall they at once notice that the two pylones of the hall ara shored up. These pylones also threatened to fall at the same time as tse columns collapsed. and provisional props have been made to avert the calamity Notn- ing has yet been done, ana the "orh of underpinning the foundations mas to be commenced and, it is hoped, Will be taken in hand shortly.
 The founda tions of this charming temple of the God of the Morning nave been found to be bad and the co'ur,ns are being underpinned. Many blocks have fallen and will be pieced together and replaced A grand fad was nade on December 2S last. M. Lesrain' Who is in charge of all the works at Kar- nak, came upon awonderfully beautllui bust fthe god I<honsl. Three other portions of the same statue have also been discovered, and it will therefore be possible to restore this beautiful statue in it's entirety wit1 the excep- tion of the small piece which IS want ing to complete one of the leSs. The statue belongs to the epoch ot Horm- habi, nineteenth dynasty, clrca l9oo b. e. The name of the god is inscribed on the pendant at the back Of the collar and the inscription runs, "khonsu ot Thebes. God of the Day" The eXpres- sion of this deity is very fine, and 1t is an excellent example of ancient Egyptian Sculpture at itS best. The god is decked with the usu2- amplems' such as the milomater, the sceptre Ouas, the fagellum, the pedum, etc. on one side of the head is long curl won by young Egyptians in antiquity, symbol of youth, It s s.il in use among the fellaheen. The statue, when restored. will be placed in situ in the temple and will form magnificent "d- dition to the treasures of karnak.- From the Egyptian Gazette.