THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN be filled, almost to the roof, with small stones, sand, dried mud, &c., which had been thrown there by some one who had been digging in the pyramid behind the chapel. This must have been done since Lepsius was there in 1844, for the chapel was in his time sufficiently PORTRAIT OF THE "LORD OF THE TWO LANDS, AMON SHn'(?)ALAK."

empty to allow his draughtsman to copy the reliefs. We cleared out the chapel down to its floor, and removed everything which was piled up to the north and south of it, and a road was dug in front of the pylon, whilst search was being made for the foundations of the little portico which must have stood before it.

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