THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN kneels the deceased before a ram, sacred to Amen, standing on a nome standard ; the company of the gods who direct the boat is five in number. On the right of the door is a priest reading from an opened papyrus roll ; he wears a cap surmounted by plumes, with a streamer which hangs down his back, and over his tunic he wears a panther-skin. Three lotus tassels are attached to his tunic. In the panel below are figures of oryges (?). On the left of the door is a figure of a stem priest, with a bandlet across his head ; he wears a tunic with three lotus tassels, and a pantherskin. In his right hand he holds the sceptre, V, and whip, >A , which when taken together, , are usually associated with Menu, or Amsu, the god of virility, fertility, and reproduction. The ceremony here represented was performed with the view of smiting those who had rebelled against the deceased in the two lands. In the panel above are six deities wearing feathers of Maat, and in that below are figures of two horses being led by a groom (?). Over the door is cut the name GIORGIO TOMO, 1874, and on the body of the boat we read, in large letters, " P, C. LETORZEC, 1820" ; the latter is the name of Cailliaud's travelling companion.

On the west wall of the shrine is the usual triad, within the ordinary decorated false door ; on each side are five pairs of gods, and among them may still be identified several who in Egypt belonged to the companies of Ra and Osiris.

The reliefs of the north and south walls prove that this pyramid was built for Arkenkherel, whose prenomen was Ankh-ka-Ra ; the deceased was the second priest of Osiris, a fact which, no doubt, accounts for the elaborate scenes from the Book of the Dead which are sculptured on his tomb.

On the north wall the deceased king, or prince, is seen seated on the usual lion-throne under a canopy ; he wears a cap of imitation feather-work, in the front of which stand two uraei symbolic of his authority over the " two lands," an expression which in Meroe, as in Egypt, must have referred to the two banks of the Nile. These uraei appear to form the ends of a bandlet which is 368