A Rocky Slope

The king’s more distant valley temple was surrounded on three sides by a massive brick wall, some 12.19 m in thickness, and lined with fine limestone blocks. It stood on a prominent rocky slope, just on the edge of the cultivation. Petrie’s excavations here
led him to the conclusion that the greater part of the temple area had been open, and that there was probably a colonnade around it, while at the back of the enclosure (west end) stood a chamber which had been decorated with fine wall reliefs. He also found the remains of some sandstone objects, and pieces of two statues of the king, one of which probably stood in the decorated chamber. However, the most exciting find made here was the discovery of foundation deposits which remained intact, buried under two blocks of stone in a hole about four feet deep which had been excavated in the rock. Four sets of these objects were found here, placed in the hole without any order or arrangement. In Egypt, foundation deposits were put underneath temples when work
began on the building. A possible explanation for such deposits(which, in Petrie’s day, had only previously been found in association with later Egyptian buildings) was that the spirit of the temple would require maintenance and repair and the tools
were provided for the workmen’s spirits to use in this respect. In each of the Kahun sets, there were seven model tools of bronze.
chisels, knives and a hatchet; a pair of corn rubbers; strings of
beads; a couple of pieces of green carbonate of copper ore; a piece
of galena; a quantity of pottery vessels and some baskets.