ABSTRACT
From the monumental remains of Nectanebus I. it is clear that he was on good terms with the priests, and that he was anxious to restore wherever possible the old sanctuaries of Egypt, and the worship of the principal gods to whom they were dedicated. The excavations of Messrs. Naville 1 and Petrie Z have shown that he carried on works at Bubastis and Tell al-Maskhuta in the Delta, and that he dedicated monuments to the gods in these places, and near the modern village of Behbit alJ:Iajara, a few miles from Mansttra in the Delta, he built a temple in honour of Horus of Hebt, ell ;, whose name he incorporated in his own. At Abydos M. Mariette found the shrine which Nectanebus dedicated in the small temple, and he also dedicated to Horus the fine granite shrine which stands to this day in the sanctuary of the temple of Edfu. At Karnak he carried out a number of repairs in the temple of Amen; in the temple of Khensu he repaired a gateway and added a number of bas-reliefs
to the building ; he built a small chapel near the temple of Karnak, and repaired in several places a building near the temple of Mut. In the Oasis of Kharga his cartouches appear a few times on the walls of the temple built in honour of Amen-Rii by Darius 1., and he seems to have carried out repairs here on a large scale. At Memphis he built a small temple near the Serapeum, and from the fact that his name is found in the quarries of Ti'tra on the eastern bank of the river we may assume th at he rebuilt certain edifices which were connected with the temple of Ptah. Nectanebus 1. also revived the custom of sett ing up obelisks. Two of these are preserved in the Bri tish Museum (Nos. 523, 524), but they are relatively small. According to Pliny (xxxvi. 14, 9) he had one made which was eighty cubits high, but it was never inscrib ed, and apparently was not taken out of th e quarry until the reign of Ptolemy 11., Philadelphus, who set it up at Alexandria. A canal was dug from th e Nile to the quarry, and a raft was floated under the obelisk, and when the weight had been transferred to the raft, it was brought down the Nile under th e direction of the architect Satyrus, or Phoenix.
