At the south-west corner, outside the town, stood the pyramid temple, and in front of it the porter's lodge.
Reproduced from Plate XIV.

of _Illahun, Kahun, and Gurob_, W.M.F.

Petrie.] But where I have excavated, especially at Thebes, I have never found anything answering to this conception.

The intersecting walls which one finds beneath the later houses are nothing but the ruins of older dwellings, which in turn rest on others still older.

The slightness of the foundations did not prevent the builders from boldly running up quite lofty structures.