THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN two seated figures of rams or lions {a, b). The walls of this court were ornamented with sculptured reliefs illustrating scenes in Piankhi's battles, arranged, no doubt, according to the plan followed in the great Egyptian temples. On one side of the pylon wall are the remains of a scene familiar to all from the pylons of Egypt, i.e., the king doing battle with his foes. The third court (C) was much smaller, only measuring fifty-one feet in length and fifty-six feet in width, and contained ten columns, five on each side of the pathway ; it was provided with a pylon. In the wall on the right-hand side of this court were two doorways, each of which led into a small chapel (D, E). Passing into the pronaos (F), we see that this chamber was practically divided into three parts by two walls which ran nearly the whole length of it. A doorway in the wall led into a long narrow chamber, with four columns (G), and beyond this was a small chapel (H) containing two columns and a shrine. Retracing our steps, and passing the inner and outer walls on the left, we enter another chapel (1), which contained four pillars. At the end of it stood a fine granite altar inscribed with the names and titles of Tirhakah, the builder of the temple at the other angle of the mountain which has already been described. This indicates that Tirhakah added a chapel to Piankhi's temple, and it is very probable that he built it with stones taken from other parts of the edifice. Behind this chapel is a long room (J), which was entered by a door on the left. The plan of the sanctuary (K) can be easily traced. The figure of the god Amen was placed at the far end, at no great distance from the massive stone altar, which still bears the cartouches of its maker, Piankhi. On the right was a small chapel (L), which could be entered from the end of the sanctuary proper, and in this probably were kept the dress and ornaments of the god and his priests.

Considering the state of ruin in which Piankhi's temple now is, it is impossible to speak definitely, but it seems tolerably certain that every chamber in that building was employed by the priests for purposes in connection with the cult of the god, and that the king and the priests had their habitation elsewhere, probably on the other side of the river.

Whilst at Gebel Barkal in 1897 I kept a party of men occupied for some weeks in clearing portions of the courts of Piankhi's 146