246 A History of Art in Ancient Egypt. As these tombs were all upon the surface of the ground they have suffered more than any others from the attacks of man. Those which are reproduced among these lines of text were only recovered by Mariette by dint of patient excavation. And [p TiwrTT^ii liiyj n^ii Niiiiiiteii.vTrni,ii!!!;it:N-mii imii i in ig?^sslS27SS?*^5S3-ASsr^ifM^!M^t ^^m3^sM^W^^^mTSi3£E(i^-ki Fig. 164. — Stele of the eleventh dynasty, Abydos. Drawn by Bourgoin. (Boulak.) although these ill constructed edifices, so far as their materials are concerned, are still standing, they will soon follow the many thousands which once stood in serried ranks round the sepulchre of Osiris. The only remains of this necropolis which are likely to
