THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN by a lion. The king holds in one hand a staff, and in the other a whip, and his enemies are seen crushed beneath his sandals.

Behind him stand two priestesses as before. The other scenes are : First Register, i. The priests bearing standards of the gods. 2. Anubis. 3. Nefer-Tem. 4. A sacredboat being carried by four priests. Beneath it are two plants, with buds on them, &c. Seco7id Register, i. Thoth, wearing plumes and a panther's skin. 2. Horus. 3. Menu, or Amsu, ithyphallic, and wearing disk and plumes. 4. Lotus flower and buds. 5. Isis and Nephthys standing one on each side of the funeral coffer which holds the body of the deceased, and which is surmounted by the hawk of Horus, wearing the double crown. Third Register. Priest at a table of offerings, loaded with fruit, flowers, joints of meat, &c., with jars and other vessels of wine, water, oil, &c., near him the text : a " royal oblation " from " Osiris, lord of Tattu, the '* great god, the lord of Abydos, the lord of Ta-tchesert, and all " the gods who dwell in Statet (Restau)," and it entreats them ** to " give bread, beer, oxen, ducks, incense, wax, linen swathings, " wine, milk, water, and every good thing which heaven giveth, " and the earth produceth, and the Nile bringeth forth out of his " cavern, to the double of" the king Alu-Amen. Along the lower border of each wall is a row of serpents, each having two arms and hands wherein it holds a knife. The gods in the first and second registers suggest that this portion of the relief is copied from the vignette of the First Chapter of the Book of the Dead, according to the Saite Recension. The scenes described above make the chapel one of the most interesting of all on the site, and they show that the cult of Osiris was in a flourishing condition on the Island of Meroe when they were sculptured on its walls.

Pyramid No.. 8 (Cailliaud H, Hoskins O, Lepsius No. 13). This pyramid is fairly well built of good stones of moderate size ; its base is formed of two or three layers of large stones, and on this there still exist thirty layers of stones of the pyramid itself. The length of the west side at the base is 63 feet. The south and east sides are ruined, and the chapel is entirely buried under the stones which have fallen from the top of the pyramid. The west side of the pyramid is in a tolerably good state of preservation.

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