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for its quarries of stone and its rock-grottoes. Besides the Alabastrites, to the north of Antinoë the grottoes of Beni Hasan, the Speos Artemidos of the Greeks is found. Nine miles lower down are the grottoes of Kom el-Ahmar, and in the Arabian Desert, on the east, quarries of the beautiful veined and white alabaster, which the Egyptians employed in their sarcophagi, and in the more delicate

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