предполагаю, что основание под правого Рамзеса с Рамзесом и основание под "парижский" обелиск были ранее вытащены, валялись
Робертс. Обелиск для Парижа уже вытащили. Постамент, как вы понимаете, там, внизу. На ШТАТНОМ месте. Прямо перед Рамсесом. Ибо его не вынули, ибо его оттащить, чтоб "валялся", невозможно. А Рамсес - просто стоит, где и стоял.
А потооом раскопки:
Science 23 October 1885:
Vol. ns-6 no. 142S pp. 370-371
EXCAVATION OF THE TEMPLE OF LUXOR.
Of all ruins, or groups of ruins, in the land of Egypt, the temples and tombs of 'hundred-gated
Thebes' stand foremost in majesty, variety and number. Here six great temples mark the site
of a city, which for many centuries was the capital of the known world. Of these six temples, the
four on the left bank are known to travellers and readers of travels as Goornah, Dayr-el-Baharee,
the Ramesseum, and Medinet Haboo; the two on the right bank being Karnak and Luxor.
By far the most accessible, and consequently the most familiar, of these half-dozen Theban
temples, is the great Temple of Luxor, which has just been excavated by Professor Maspero. Yet,
till now, Luxor has not in itself been nearly so rich in objects of interest as any of the neighboring
sites. Not only was the great temple threefourths buried under the accumulated rubbish of
ages, but its courts and colonnades formed the actual nucleus of the Arab half of the modern
village. The Moslem population has settled, apparently from medieeval times, in and around the
temple, at the southward end of the mound. Here, building always with mud bricks crudely
dried in the sun, each generation erecting its congeries of hovels on the ruins of the hovels
made by its predecessors, the Arabs of Luxor have gone on from century to century
accumulating rubbish upon rubbish and mud upon mud, till they have thrown
up an artificial hill some forty-eight or fifty feet in height. As the hill rose, the
temple necessarily became swallowed up. To sweep away all these barracks, stores,
houses, huts, pigeontowers, stables and refuse-heaps, has been the earnest desire of
Professor Maspero, ever since his acceptance of the important post left vacant, in
1881, by the death of Mariette Pasha. He obtained from the Egyptian minister of public
works the necessary' authorization for treating with the fellaheen, the basis of the negotiation
being that each squatter should receive a cash indemnity for his house and a piece of land equivalent
in extent to the area covered by the said house and its dependencies. It was further arranged
that the Egyptian government should find the money for the liquidation of the indemnities.
Some of the temple-folk would sell, and some stoutly refused to be bought out, except upon
such terms as made negotiation well-nigh impossible. Meanwhile, there was another financial
question to be settled,-namely, the expenses of excavation. The Egyptian government had paid
the indemnities, and could do no more; yet, to get rid of the squatters was of little avail so long as
there remained fifty feet of soil to be cleared and carted away. A subscription, simultaneouly started
in the Journal des debats and the London Times, met, however, with so liberal a response (especially
in Paris), that this question of ways and means was settled in two or three days, and in the month
of July, 1884, the order was given to commence operations.
Our illustration shows the courtyard of Amenhotep III. with the excavations in progress. We
here find ourselves admitted into the precincts of the courtyard, immediately behind the governm]
ent store-house, of which one corner and a small window are seen between the pillars to the right.
The spectator stands with his back to the Arabian chain and his face to the Libyan range, one long
spur of the great western mountain and a glimpse of the Nile being visible behind the highest group
of Arabs to the left of the picture. The mud huts, the mud walls built up between the columns, the
asses, and goats, and village folk, are still in part occupation of the place. To the left, however, a
hovel or two have been demolished; and, on the rubbish heap thus created, we see a group composed
of two Europeans and some five or six better-class natives. The Athenceum states that "somewhat late
in the day the inhabitants of Syracuse have erected a monument tqoAchimedes."
