THE EGYPTIAN vSUDAN in his left he holds a bow and several arrows, and a long sceptre, or staff, with a top in the form of the head of Horus, and a rectangular base, on which is depicted a prostrate foe. His tightlitting cap has plumes at the sides, round his neck is a collar, over his shoulders hangs a panther-skin, and he wears sandals. This priest is called the " priest of Maat," and his name may be Amen KA-ANKH. The inscriptions which refer to these reliefs are mutilated, but it is quite clear that they were drawn up by some one who was acquainted with ancient Egyptian religious lore, especially that section of it which referred to " Osiris, lord of Tattu," and to " Osiris Khenti-Amenti, great lord, lord of Abydos," i.e., to Osiris of the Delta, and Osiris of Upper Egypt. The values assigned to some of the characters prove that the inscriptions were drafted at the end of the Ptolemaic, or at the beginning of the Roman, Period.

On the south wall we see the funeral procession represented.

First come four men with shaven heads, the third bearing the standard of the Hawk nome, and the fourth that of the Ibis nome ; behind these come Anubis, jackal(?)-headed, and Nefer-Tem, with his characteristic head-dress of lotus flowers and plumes. Next come eight men with shaven heads, who carry on their shoulders the poles to which is attached a boat containing a coffer, wherein is the body of the dead queen lying on a bier. The bier stands within a funeral coffer, on the four corners of which stand hawks, wearing plumes. On one side is the hawk of Horus, and on the other the vulture of Mut, and below these are figures of gods and goddesses with hands raised in adoration of the queen. In this scene we have the apotheosis of the queen depicted. In the space between the two groups of bearers are standards, one of which is surmounted by a star within a frame. Round two of them are twisted objects which are, I believe, intended to represent the skins of bulls, but the mason did not know what they were meant to be. . It will be remembered that in papyri of the Book of the Dead we often see, tied to a pole by the shrine of Osiris, the skin of a pied bull, dripping with blood from the neck, whence the head has been cut off; the god is supposed to have taken refuge in the skin, which in some way conduced to his immortality. In the lower registers on this wall we see a table of funeral offerings, 362