No further archaeological work in the temple seems to have been carried out until 1980, when the American mission excavated a small probe trench in the pronaos and noted that several meters of Nile flood sediment had accumulated in the temple since the structure was cleared in 1913/14.
The temple structure itself is presently in poor shape and, because of the fluctuating local watertable resulting from the irrigation of adjacent and nearby fields, its condition worsens every year.
The temple temenos area is in close proximity to irrigated fields on its east, south, and west, and when these fields are flooded, the surface of the ground at the temple is fully saturated, with standing water in some locations.
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