Every year, the weather in Egypt changes: the winds pick up,
clouds roll in, and the weather starts to drop. It happens suddenly and ushers
in cooler temps. Sunday (the day I stayed home just to make sure I was
recovered) was that day. It’s been steadily getting cooler and cooler and last
night, I woke up and pulled my sleeping bag over me. Granted, it was still 84
in the room when I got up, but it feels so gloriously cool. It does get hotter
during the day still, so I’m drinking plenty and staying in the shade, but this
cooler weather is a welcome change from the 106s we had last week.
Today Jonathan and I did a bunch more pictures and a ton of
recording. We even found some joins for our Saite/Kushite building and now have
a name of the builder: nrf-ib-ra. There are about 10 blocks out in front of the
temple that the SCA had already put on little benches, and they go to our
stuff, too. We thought they looked similar, but when we really examined them
today, we noticed that the bottom of a cartouche out there matched the top part
of a cartouche we had, and voila! Shortly after, we found a full cartouche that
confirmed our suspicions. Jonathan also found a join with 2 Saite blocks we
already had in our block yard. We think we have another one between our block
and one in front of the temple, but we ran out of time. Super cool! We might
get an article out of this yet.
