THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN element is only seen in the dresses of the priests and others, and in the jewellery of the deceased. When Cailliaud described the pyramid its chapel was standing with its roof intact, and only a part of the pylon was ruined ; the reliefs on the walls were in a sufficiently good state to enable him to make copies, and the shrine, with its cornice of uraei, surmounted by the boat of the sun, could still be easily distinguished. Writing about twelve years later, Hoskins states that the " portico " was still standing, but " very few figures were distinguishable." He goes on to say 2 4 6 8 10 Metres md ill T PYRAMID P AT GEBEL BARKAL AS SEEN BY CAILLIAUD.

that the style is "decidedly Ethiopian," and mentions the existence of an inscription in " Ethiopic " characters. Between Hoskins' visit to Gebel Barkal and that of Lepsius about twelve years later, some damage, though not a great deal, appears to have been done to the chapel, but by 1897 the whole of the chapel and pylon had completely disappeared, and there was not one stone near the pyramid which would lead one to suppose that buildings of the kind had ever existed. From the drawings made by Cailliaud I was convinced that this pyramid was one of the ' Compare Lepsius, Denkmd/er, V., plates 20 and 21.

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