ABSTRACT
When the French Expedition at the end of the eighteenth century reported on the ancient monuments of Egypt, they noted the fine preservation of this little temple, which was then as clean and fresh as if newly from the hands of the builder. Since that time it has been in turn a police-post, a prison, a cook-house, and its modern name of “The Castle of the Bats” testifies only too mournfully to the state into which it had fallen when the Department of Antiquities took it in hand.
