I PYRAMID OF ARKENKHEREL fixed round his cap ; this bandlet is ornamented with a winged disk. Behind the canopy stands the king in the embrace of the goddessofAmentijwhohason her head the feather and hawk, 1) . .

In front of the canopy stands a priest, whose name ends in retl, '= , and he is throwing httle pellets of incense into the firepan of the censer which he holds in his left hand. His panther-skin is fastened round him by means of three pairs of cords, and the ends of three of the cords terminate in tassels, or fastenings, in the form of lotus ends. By the side of the priest is a well-filled table of offerings. Above the priest, on a raised tablet, are seven lines of hieroglyphics, which refer to the " making of a royal offering, and the dedication of gifts to the great company of the gods of the Tuat," or Other World, and to the little company of the regions of the South and North, and to Osiris, the great god, the lord of the pure (i.e., holy) sarcophagus, and of Isis. In the mutilated lines at the end are enumerated the things which are to be offered by the thousand. Behind the priest, arranged in tabular form, are sculptured twenty of the " Pylons of Sekhet-Aaru in the House of Osiris." Each pylon is guarded by a god of the Other World, who holds a knife in his hand, and a figure of the king is seen outside each pylon with his hands raised in adoration or entreaty.

Here in fact we have all the vignettes save one of the CXLIVth Chapter of the Book of the Dead, in the form in which they are found in Saitic and Ptolemaic Recensions. The upper edge of this wall is ornamented with a row of figures of jackals, each of which has his whip, i\. and his sceptre, Yj below these is a mutilated line of hieroglyphics, and then comes a border of stars.

At the bottom of the wall is a row of attendants or servants bearing palm branches.

On the south wall is sculptured in somewhat elaborate detail the Judgment Scene from the Book of the Dead with which all are familiar. Osiris Khenti-Amentet is seated at the end of the Hall of Maati, along one side of which stand the Forty-two "Assessors." In front of the god, on a pedestal, is a lion, with two knives between his fore-feet and two feathers on his head ; he represents the Amemit of the ancient versions of this VOL. I. 369 B b