I had accepted Gallazzi's invitation to work at the site but the Egyptian work permit didn't come through until October. I spent two weeks there reexamining the buildings first exposed 65 years ago. I wasn't able to have any help at the site since they were short-staffed themselves (that's another story) but I did get permission from both Gallazzi and the Director of the French Institute to obtain their plan and some measurements of the site.
I am mailing you a copy of their site plan with crosses whose numbers correspond to coordinates on an enclosed list. Another list gives the horizontal distances between these points. I sincerely hope that these numbers will be adequate for your purposes. I would think that if you scan the plan and scale it to one to the photos perhaps by layering it over, you ought to be able to have reliable and workable figures; I'm not sure of this however because their points along the processional avenue for example may not be clearly obvious on the photos.
A French scholar who is publishing the sanctuary and dromos was kind enough to let me photocopy a part of his manuscript in June. It contains embedded in the text a number of measurements. For example, the enclosure (in bold) around the north pavilion (also in bold) is 42.75 long and 11.75 wide from the outside surfaces of its walls. If necessary I can extract other measurements from this text.
I was working in the north part of the site on the two large rectangular blocks or insulae. I tried to take some measurements for you based on points that are both visible on the photos and still present at the site. These will not be as accurate as the French ones as I did not have the use of a level or theodolite, merely the 50 m.tape, pin and bob I took with me. My choices of points were limited because many of the mudbrick walls not recovered by sand have since been badly eroded by wind and rain. The points I chose were the corners of the two limestone lion bases (each 2.70 X 1.00) inside the enclosure near the north end of the dromos and three of the corners of the two insulae near by where I was working. The east-west street between the two insulae is a consistent 4.40 in width. I wasn't able to work at all in the south part of the site since it has been reexcavated by the current Director.
A is the north outside corner of the doorway to Room 1 in the North Insula. B is the inner northwest corner of Room 9 of the same insula. C is the presumed northeast corner of the South Insula. a,b,c,d, and e,f,g,h are the NW, SW, SE & NE corners of the west and east bases respectively, as marked on the enclosed photocopy.
A-a 21.50 A-b 19.65 A-c 20.50 A-f 26.60 A-g 27.50 B-b 39.80 B-e 38.55 B-f 39.40 C-a 26.90 C-b 24.85 C-c 25.35 C-e 32.60 C-f 31.50 C-g 31.80
As I said, if you need more measurements, I can try to extract some more from the French manuscript.
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