THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN From what has been said above it is clear that the queen who built the pyramid possessed artistic tastes which found their expression in a love for fine apparel, ornamented with ropes and tassels, and elaborate jewellery, which in form and design was copied from the ornaments worn by women of high rank in Egypt in late Pharaonic times. It has already been said that the jewellery which Ferlini sold to- the Royal Museum of Berlin and to the Antiquarium of Munich (see above, p. 299) was declared by him to have been found in a chamber at the top of this queen's pyramid, but it is interesting to note that the jewellery which the queen is represented as wearing in the reliefs is quite unlike that which he brought to Europe, and, in my opinion, it is purely Meroitic. Reproductions of the objects in Ferlini's "find' which were acquired by Berlin were published in gold, and silver, and colours by Lepsius in the Denkmdler (Abth. V. Bl. 42), but as this huge and costly work is not always available for reference, tracings of some of the best examples have been made, and they are reproduced in black and white on pp. 298-306. It has been thought unnecessary to give drawings of all the armlets, &c., from the " find " which are now preserved in Munich, for, judging by the official description of it published in the " Guide to the Antiquarium/" they are practically duplicates of the objects at Berlin. Specimens, however, are added for purposes of comparison. Those who wish to inquire further into the matter may consult Georg Hirth's '' Formenschatz' 26 Jahrgang (1902), Nos. 27, 63, and 97.

Pyramid of Murtek, or Alu-Amen, '* living for ever, BELOVED OF Isis" (ankh-tchetta-meri-Ast), No. 7 (Cailliaud G, Hoskins Q, Lepsius No. 14. This pyramid is well built, its stones are squarely cut, and the twenty-six layers of stone of which it is formed are easy to climb. It is wholly ruined on the west side. The angle stone at each end of the tenth layer from the bottom, on the east side, has cut on it the utcltat or Eye of Horus, or Ra, facing thus . I have not noticed ' Fiihrer durch das K. Aniiquarium in Miincheti von W. Christ, Konservator, unter Mttwirkun von H. Thiersch, K. Dyroff, und L Curtius. Miinchen, 1901, p. 40.

-I owe this reference to the courtesy of Dr. Karl Dyroff, of the Royal " Antiquarium " of Munich.

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