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The Palace of Apries: Memphis II (Classic Reprint)

William Matthew Flinders Petrie

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Description:Excerpt from The Palace of Apries: Memphis II 1. After the close of the excavations at Qurneh our camp was moved to Memphis to continue the work of the previous season, recorded in Memphis I. Mr. Wainwright left Qurneh three weeks before me, in order to study at the Cairo museum, and to begin the arrangements at Memphis. I went down on 10 February, and Mr. Mackay followed twelve days later after packing. I left on 21 April and Mr. Wainwright soon after, Mr. Mackay staying on till near the middle of May. The greater part of our work was spent upon the large mound at the north end of Memphis, which we found to be the site of the royal palace of Apries. The general appearance of it is a long ridge about two hundred feet wide, and four hundred feet from the north end up to some immense walled enclosures of brick at the south end. The view of the whole, from the east, is in PI. X, and the plan of the palace in PI. I. The plan was entirely measured by taping, from a sighted line laid out along the wall east of the new broadway, with diagonal ties across the great court to fix the squareness of the whole. Plumb-lines were constantly used for sighting and measuring. The clearance was over two acres of ground, to a depth of ten or fifteen feet in most parts, the largest clearance made this year in any site. Last season I had seen that there were walls remaining on the top of the mound, and therefore we ranked a row of workmen along each side of the ridge, and began steadily clearing inwards until they met in the middle. 2. The walls are all of black mud brick, with stone linings around the lower part of the halls, stone floors to the halls, and stone doorways and stairways. The walls are from 10 to 22 feet in thickness, generally being about 14 feet. They vary in age, some being patched on the top with later brickwork, some being built up from the floor of Apries, while many extend down far into the mound, covered with plaster, and evidently have served for previous palaces. It may be said that the level of Apries is inserted some way up the older walls, with some repairs, and some new construction added. The disentanglement of the history of construction, and of the changes of levels, will need careful work in future; but for the present we only deal with the level of Apries. The history of these changes seems clear. As a dynasty decayed, the roofs were not kept in good state, the winter rains ran into the walls, large masses fell off the tops of the walls after a heavy storm, some roofs fell in; then when a new order of things arose, the damaged parts were taken down, the floors were all levelled up with the rubbish, the sound walls were trimmed and patched, new walls were built where the decay was beyond repair, and the whole palace was restored at a higher level. Thus about seventy feet depth of artificial construction stands between the primitive ground level and the floor of Apries. Much of the north end has been successively extended by building up a cellular substructure of brick shafts domed over, like the platforms of the forts of Naukratis and Daphnae; but the rest of the site shews earlier courts in the lower levels. 3. The general scheme of the building was that it occupied the north-west corner of the great fortified camp of about thirty acres, at the north end of the ruins of Memphis. Along the west side of the camp was a line of three great enclosures, and the palace-fortress mound. The enclosures to the south are ruined and built over; that next to the palace has been cleared out by the sebakhin for earth, leaving a square of massive walls standing about forty feet high; all the interior of this is empty, and we cannot know what it contained before it was destroyed. Through this great square there was a roadway, with a wide gate on the south, and another on the north opposite to it. This latter is shewn on the plan, PI. I, by two white lines across the thick wall at the foot of the plate. T.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Palace of Apries: Memphis II (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The Palace of Apries: Memphis II (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from The Palace of Apries: Memphis II 1. After the close of the excavations at Qurneh our camp was moved to Memphis to continue the work of the previous season, recorded in Memphis I. Mr. Wainwright left Qurneh three weeks before me, in order to study at the Cairo museum, and to begin the arrangements at Memphis. I went down on 10 February, and Mr. Mackay followed twelve days later after packing. I left on 21 April and Mr. Wainwright soon after, Mr. Mackay staying on till near the middle of May. The greater part of our work was spent upon the large mound at the north end of Memphis, which we found to be the site of the royal palace of Apries. The general appearance of it is a long ridge about two hundred feet wide, and four hundred feet from the north end up to some immense walled enclosures of brick at the south end. The view of the whole, from the east, is in PI. X, and the plan of the palace in PI. I. The plan was entirely measured by taping, from a sighted line laid out along the wall east of the new broadway, with diagonal ties across the great court to fix the squareness of the whole. Plumb-lines were constantly used for sighting and measuring. The clearance was over two acres of ground, to a depth of ten or fifteen feet in most parts, the largest clearance made this year in any site. Last season I had seen that there were walls remaining on the top of the mound, and therefore we ranked a row of workmen along each side of the ridge, and began steadily clearing inwards until they met in the middle. 2. The walls are all of black mud brick, with stone linings around the lower part of the halls, stone floors to the halls, and stone doorways and stairways. The walls are from 10 to 22 feet in thickness, generally being about 14 feet. They vary in age, some being patched on the top with later brickwork, some being built up from the floor of Apries, while many extend down far into the mound, covered with plaster, and evidently have served for previous palaces. It may be said that the level of Apries is inserted some way up the older walls, with some repairs, and some new construction added. The disentanglement of the history of construction, and of the changes of levels, will need careful work in future; but for the present we only deal with the level of Apries. The history of these changes seems clear. As a dynasty decayed, the roofs were not kept in good state, the winter rains ran into the walls, large masses fell off the tops of the walls after a heavy storm, some roofs fell in; then when a new order of things arose, the damaged parts were taken down, the floors were all levelled up with the rubbish, the sound walls were trimmed and patched, new walls were built where the decay was beyond repair, and the whole palace was restored at a higher level. Thus about seventy feet depth of artificial construction stands between the primitive ground level and the floor of Apries. Much of the north end has been successively extended by building up a cellular substructure of brick shafts domed over, like the platforms of the forts of Naukratis and Daphnae; but the rest of the site shews earlier courts in the lower levels. 3. The general scheme of the building was that it occupied the north-west corner of the great fortified camp of about thirty acres, at the north end of the ruins of Memphis. Along the west side of the camp was a line of three great enclosures, and the palace-fortress mound. The enclosures to the south are ruined and built over; that next to the palace has been cleared out by the sebakhin for earth, leaving a square of massive walls standing about forty feet high; all the interior of this is empty, and we cannot know what it contained before it was destroyed. Through this great square there was a roadway, with a wide gate on the south, and another on the north opposite to it. This latter is shewn on the plan, PI. I, by two white lines across the thick wall at the foot of the plate. T.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Palace of Apries: Memphis II (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The Palace of Apries: Memphis II (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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