TEMPLE OF TIRHAKAH described above are the remains of the large temple (B) built by the Nubian king called Taharqa, better known under the Biblical form of his name, " Tirhakfih," who was reigning B.C. 693. This temple was called the " T\phonium," because Cailliaud and Hoskins wrongly identified the figures of the god Bes which are sculptured on some of its pillars as those of Typhon, a god of TWO PILLARS, WMH HATHOR CAPITALS, FROM THE TEMPLE OF TIRHAKAH AT GEBEL BARKAL (THE TYPHONIUM).

They were standing in 1897.

evil ; Bes and Typhon were, however, gods with totally distinct attributes, and there is no evidence to show that TirhkS'h ever wished to pay honour to one of the Egyptian gods of evil. The door of the temple of Tirhakah faces 143* from the true north,' ' I owe this fact to Colonel M. G. Talbot, R.E. Cailliaud says, "Son axe fait avec le nord magneiique un angle de 23 degres vers Test."

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