I PYRAINIID OF AMEX-SHIPALTA and promulgated at least five thousand years before his time. In connection with this it is interesting to observe that the name of Amen is not compounded with his own, and that the king believed in the existence of the material heaven of Osiris, as well as in the kingdom of light of the Sun-god.

The ornamentation of the upper and lower portions of the relief on the south wall is the same as that on the north wall.

Pyramid of Queen .... Amen-Shipalta, No. 6 (Cailliaud F, Hoskins R, Lepsius No. 15). This is one of the largest of the northern group of pyramids, and according to the calculation of Cailliaud ( Voyage, tom. ii., p. 157, and see plate 41), who saw it in an almost complete state, it was originally about 85 feet high.

Its base is partially buried, and it is therefore impossible to make exact measurements of the lengths of the sides, but each must be, at least, 70 feet. The chapel covered a space about 18 feet square. In ancient days the pyramid showed signs of splitting on the south side, probably owing to some fault in the foundations, and a supporting wall was therefore built on this side to prevent further trouble. On the east side, near the top, was a rectangular niche, with a moulded cornice, like a window, and it was probably intended to be used by the soul of the great queen for whom the pyramid was built, when it came to revisit its body. The destruction of this pyramid was effected by Ferlini (see above, p. 290 ff.) who, because it appeared to be nearly complete, decided to pull it down, layer by layer, in his search for treasure. He asserts in the published account of his demolition of this pyramid that he found treasure in a chamber a little below the summit, and two metal vases in a hollow in it about half way down. When he reached the level of the top of the chapel he ceased his work of destruction.

When we began to make a road to the chapel of this pyramid we found its east and south sides completely blocked up by masses of very large stones and several tons of pieces of black basalt. When these had been removed, the inside of the chapel was found to > The prenomen of the queen ( V LM P £1 ' "d above the figure on the right side ot the pvlon, and the broken nomen 373