THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN been built some time, the queen (or perhaps her descendants), determined to add another pylon and two courts to the tomb, and to make them join on to the chapel and pylon as best they could. They found it necessary to fill up the slope on the hiflside before the chapel, which was entered by means of a flight of steps, and on this made-up ground they erected the additions to the tomb. The work of the ne portion is poor, and the reliefs, though well designed, are clumsy ; the new courts do not " range " with the chapel, and they are out of proportion to the size of the pyramid.

sOdani bulls and poultry (pyramid no. ii).

[From Lepsius, Denkm'dUr, Abth. V. BL 29.

On the north wall of the chapel the reliefs are most elaborate,, and may be thus described :—The cornice is ornamented with I. A row of uraei, each represented full-faced, and each wearing a disk. 2. Disks, each having three pairs of wings and pendent uraei. 3. A row of five-rayed stars. On the west end of this wall Me see the queen seated upon the lion-throne, the back of which terminates in the head of an animal. Above her brow is the uraeus of royalty, with the double crown, and on her head is the scorpion-goddess, Isis-Selqet. In her right hand she holds the uraeus sceptre and the end of a rope with which eight kneeling 394 I