ABSTRACT
This temple has suffered more than any other in Egypt from the hand of the deliberate destroyer. Mariette records that the old inhabitants of the villages nearest to the temple told him that they remembered how Selim Pasha, the proprietor of the villages, systematically demolished the temple, using the limestone blocks for building and for burning for lime. Consequently the temple, which a century ago was nearly complete, is now wrecked and desolate.
