THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN many other pyramid chapels on the Island of Meroe. So far as we know now, the chapel of Pyramid No. i is the only one in which it has been found. The slab on which it occurs, which formed part of the door of the chapel of this pyramid, is preserved in the Royal Museum at Berlin (No. 2259).'

On the west wall of the chapel is sculptured the Boat of Rii, with a ram, the symbol of the god, standing in it. Below this we see the mummied form of the deceased queen lying on a lion-bier within a funeral coffer, with a vulture near her head ; at her feet stands a bearded god wearing a disk. Under the bier lies the mummied hawk-headed form of vSeker, and at its head are the scales of the Judgment Hall of Osiris, wherein the heart is being weighed with the figure of Maat as the counterbalance. At the head and foot of the coffer are figures of the goddess Isis " pouring out water at the tomb of the deceased Osiris."

On the north wall is sculptured a figure of the queen sitting on a throne ornamented with lions' heads, wearing a tight-fitting cap, with uraeus over the brow, surmounted by a headdress formed of plumes, horns, and a disk. Her ornaments consist of a necklace, armlets, and bracelets ; in her right hand is some object, symbolic of authority (?), and in her left hand is a long staff. Under her throne are nine bows, emblematic of her sovereignty over nine barbarian tribes whose chief weapon was the bow. The queen sits under a canopy, and behind her stands the goddess Isis as Maat (?), wearing the vulture head-dress, with disk and horns, and holding up the feather of Maat in her left hand. In front of the queen we see the goddesses of the South and North, setting standards, with rams ' upon them, on pedestals whereon lie the jackals of Anpu (Anubis) and Ap-uat. Close to these pedestals are two smaller ones, with a lion on the top of each. In the middle is set up the standard with a box surmounted by the headdress of Ptah-Seker-Asar on the top of it ; the box was supposed to contain the head of Osiris. During a solemn ceremony, which was performed annually at Abydos in Egypt, this standard was "set up," and it was supposed to typify the resurrection of the god Osiris. All the standards and pedestals in this scene rest ' Published by Lepsius, Denktndler Abth. V. HI. 47.

- Symbols of Amen of Thebes, and Amen of Napaia.

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