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An account of the circumstances which have made such an investigation as this possible will be found in the first Bulletin of the Archaeological Survey of Nubia. This note is published with the permission of the Egyptian Ministry of Finance and Captain H. G. Lyons, F.R.S., Director-General of the Survey Department, under whose direction the Archaeological Survey of the country to be flooded, when the Assouan dam is raised is being carried out. For the determination of the age of the materials used in this investigation I am indebted to Dr. George A. Reisner, who conducted all the excavations and the archaeological work of the expedition.