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K. A. C. CRESWELL. Archæological researches at the Citadel of Cairo (avec 30 planches). 89-167 H. SOTTAS. Remarques sur le dieu Harkhentekhtai...

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ARCHEOLOGICAL RESEARCHES

AT THE CITADEL OF CAIRO

BY

K. A. C. CRESWELL

ATTACHÉ ÉTRANGER À L'INSTITUT FRANÇAIS DU CAIRE.

PREFACE AND DEDICATION.

An extensive memoir on the Citadel of Cairo, by the distinguished Arabic scholar M. Paul Casanova, of the Collège de France, having already appeared (1), I feel that an explanation is due for the appearance of this additional memoir on the same subject. M. Casanova, when he undertook his task nearly thirty years ago, relied on the collaboration of Max Herz, the late architect to the Comité de Conservation, for the architectural studies which were to accompany his work. M. Casanova's memoir is based on an exhaustive study of the Arabic texts, supplemented by personal knowledge of the topography of the enclosure, and his labour gained for him the honour of the Prix Saintour which was awarded him by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1897. The memoir contains several references (2) to the studies of M. Herz which were to form a supplement to it. Not only were these studies never published, it is probable that they were never even commenced, since the archives of the Comité do not contain a single plan, photograph or drawing (3) of the Citadel, which has apparently remained a terra incognita to the staff. Thanks to the sympathetic interest and assistance of the Military Authorities I have been given every facility to explore the Citadel. The results of my researches are here presented in the hope that they may partly fill the gap

M. M. A. F. C., tome VI, fasc. 4 and 5. (2) Loc. cit., p. 542, n. 1 (« Voir les études architecturales de M. Herz à la fin de ce mémoire"), Bulletin, t. XXIII.

pp. 580, n. 4, 584, 663, 726, 731 and 741. (3) Except one small sketch of the masonry next the Muqattam Gate.

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