BUILDINGS UNEARTHED IN EGYPT

Ashton Sanborn '05, assistant curator of the Egyptian section in the University Museum of Philadelphia, has been for the past two seasons in Egypt with the expedition from that Museum. The expedition is in charge of Clarence S. Fisher, G. '08-09, who was formerly associated with the University Palestinian Expedition and with the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts expedition in Egypt.

Sanborn reports that work has been done at Gizeh, Memphis and Dendereh. At Gizeh a portion of the extensive necropolis belonging to the period of the Old Empire was cleared. Besides a number of stelae, the most interesting discovery was a vauit built of interlocking bricks; this is a unique example of such construction at so early a date. At Memphis the expedition is still engaged in uncovering a great complex of buildings dating from the reign of Merenptah (ca. 1225-1215 B. C.), the son of Rameses the Great. Thus far nearly the whole of a large festival temple, or palace, has been cleared and richly inlaid walls found.

The recent bequest of $500,000, made by the late Eckley B. Coxe, Jr., of Philadelphia, for the work of the Egyptian section in the University Museum in that city, is a gift unparalleled in archaeology and places the work in Egypt on a permanent basis.