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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt:... in 1891-2 added so much to our knowledge, and, by the interest which he excited, became in no small measure responsible for the present series of volumes. His unpublished materials also have always been unreservedly put at the disposal of other workers, and I shall have to acknowledge my indebtedness to him in several instances. J I cannot admit that L should be included. It is a little tablet, about 5 feet by 3 feet, retaining only a trace of inscription, and having no resemblance to the other monuments. It may not even be of this period. 3 In these discussions of position I am entirely dependent on Prof. Petrie's map. southernmost on the west side, does not pass through J, the southernmost on the east bank of the river, but almost exactly through P, which lies further south in the desert road behind the mountains. A parallel line through B passes through V, an obliterated stela near the mouth of the defile through which the mountain-path from X enters the plain.4 These stelae, then--A, B, F and K, V, J (or P)--seem to represent the six landmarks (northern, southern and middle, on both banks) mentioned in the text (p. 34). Three of the stelae on the east bank date from an earlier year and contain a special text, viz., X (the northernmost), M (at the southern limit of the plain), and K (a few hundred yards south of M, on the river road, where every vestige of cultivation now ends for many miles). K (first series) and J (second series) seem to represent a wish to include in the district of Akhetaten some length of the approach to Akhetaten by the river bank, so balancing X exactly." The rest of the known stelae are distributed unequally and their sites are fixed with more or less obvious intentions. J, if not already fixed on the river bank as the Sout...