PYRAMID OF MURTEK utchats on any other pyramid. We cleared out the shrine, which was more than half full of stones and sand, and because we found fragments of inscribed stones fastened in the ground on the floor level, we removed the stones which formed the floor, and dug downwards for about 3 feet, but we found nothing. The chapel is large, and massively built, but in order to find a place for the pylon the builders were obliged to till up the side of the hill with blocks of stone and earth. Strange to say, they did not bond their blocks into the hill-side, and did not even lay them with the outer end tilted up ; therefore when a " settlement " took place, their foundations slipped away, carrying the pylon with it.

At the west end of the chapel is a false door, which is carved in such a way that the spectator might imagine he saw the jambs and cornices of three or four doors. In the centre we see the god Osiris seated and wearing the «// crown; on one side of him stands Isis, and on the other Nephthys. On the flat portions of the relief is the cartouche of " Osiris, the king, the lord of the two lands, Alu-Amen, living for ever, beloved of Isis," Above the false door we see the Boat of the Sun sailing over tlie waters of heaven. In the centre is the sun on the horizon [O], and among the gods who are in the boat are Hapi, the Nile-god, the Crocodile-god (Sebek), and the Hippopotamus-goddess (Ta-urt).

At each end of the boat, but outside it, seated on a pylon, is the soul of king Alu-Amen, in the form of a man-headed hawk with a disk on his head, and with his hands raised in adoration of the rising and the setting sun. On each side of the false door are three small reliefs, and in each of the two top ones is a figure of the king, who is here called " Murtek," lord of the two lands " ; he is in mummied form, and wears, therefore, the atef crown of Osiris.

In the second relief on the left are two gods, and in the third are a form of the jackal-god, and a god with two serpents growing out of his neck instead of a head. In the second relief on the right are a hawk-headed god called Aa-Shamu (?), and a god with two serpents growing out of his neck instead of a head ; in the third are two ram-headed gods, the first being called Kenufi, and the 383