THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN This pyramid, with its chapel, fore-court, and pylon, forms the largest, and, in some respects, most important of all the sepulchral monuments on the site. The length of each side at the base is 65 feet, and its height, when complete, was nearly 80 feet, and, according to Cailliaud, its axis made with the magnetic north an angle of 60° towards the west. Its anglestones are well shaped, and the layers of stone which form it are each about 15 inches high. The total length of the monument, including the pylon and its fore-court, was about 145 feet. The upper portion of the pyramid has been completely wrecked, and I cannot help thinking that it was brought about by the spreading of the report that Ferlini found. the jewellery which he carried away in a chamber in the top of pyramid No. 6, which marked the burial-place of one of the great queens of Meroe, It is plain to all who visit the chapel of the pyramid which we are about to describe that the monument was set up in memory of a queen, and the wreckers of the pyramid would imagine that jewellery was to be found somewhere in the tomb of every queen. During our excavations on the site in 1903 we cleared out the whole of the first two chambers behind the pylon, and the greater part of the chapel, but we dared not go any further westward, or deeper, for we feared to disturb the heaps of stones which rested on the slant immediately above the chapel, lest the rubble being once set on the run, the whole of the ruined eastern face of the pyramid would slide into the chapel and bury the soldiers beneath it. In 1905, when, in connection with Mr. J. W. Crowfoot, I resumed work at the pyramids of Meroe, we decided that we would clear away from the eastern side of the pyramid all the stones, &c., which were likely to be dangerous, and to dig out the shrine down to floor level. This decision was carried out, and during the course of the work a stone hawk, fragments of a green glazed earthenware altar, and the greater part of the group of figures of Osiris, Isis, and Nephthys, which had originally been fixed against the west wall of the chapel, were found. The sculptured work under the feet of the deities was in high relief, the design was good, and the carving was excellent. An attempt appears to have been made to destroy the sculptured group by fire, for the figures were covered with a thick coating of 388 I