PYRAMID OF QUEEN AMEN-SHIPALTA nations, each with his characteristic head-dress ; their arms are tied together behind their backs, above the elbows, and their necks are tied together by a rope held in the queen's left hand. Her bow and one arrow she grasps in the same hand, and with her right hand she drives her spear into the bodies of her captives.

Over the door between these reliefs is a deep and elaborate cornice, and in the centre of it stands a winged figure, wearing on her head a pair of horns with a disk between them. Heavy folds of feather-work fall by her feet, and behind her are two large pairs of wings outstretched. This ornamentation is unusual, for over doors of this kind we generally have the winged disks with pendent uraei.

The reliefs on the walls inside the chapel are much mutilated, but they are of interest. On the north wall the queen is seen sitting on a lion-throne under a canopy, wearing the triple crown, and holding a sceptre in one hand, and a palm branch in the other. Her jewellery is very elaborate, especially the armlets ; from the smaller of her necklaces hangs a pendant in the form of a ram's head, and from the larger the figure of a goddess wearing plumes, probably Mut. Before her are her children and other members of her family bearing funeral oiferings, and behind are remains of rows of ministrants bearing offerings. Here also we see the Balance wherein the heart was tried, with the dog-headed ape sitting on the middle of the beam. As this is the only element of the Judgment Scene represented, it seems to indicate that when the queen's pyramid was built, men had forgotten the other details. Its appearance on the wall, however, proves that the queen professed to believe in the Judgment of Osiris, and the trial of the heart before that god. Near the balance is inscribed the name Amiro. On the south wall we see the queen seated in similar state, with a priest before her burning incense, and ministrants bearing palm branches. She wears a garment of a most unusual character over her right shoulder, and on one arm is an armlet, the centre-piece of which is formed by a massive scarab. In the upper eastern corner is an interesting representation of the funeral procession, and we see for the first time the funerary coffers mounted on wheels ; the larger is propelled by six ministrants.

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