THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN Roman Periods. The latchets of the prince's sandals are surmounted by uraei, and his feet rest upon a footstool with supports made in the form of lions with the object T between them ; in his hands are the sceptre, 1, the whip; /\ , the palm branch, and objects which appear to be intended to represent flowers. By the side of the chair of state, or throne, sits the prince's favourite hunting dog, with a deep collar round his neck. This dog was either very large, or is represented to be so as a mark of his importance, for his ears are on a level with the head of the man who stands behind him. Close to the throne stands Isis, pouring out a libation ; as we should expect, the sculptor has endowed her with the chief physical characteristics of the fullbosomed, large-hipped queens of Meroe. The goddess has on her head the vulture headdress, with uraeus, and wears horns with a disk between them. Behind the prince stands his wife, barefooted, with her hands raised. In her right hand she holds what is intended to represent a sistrum ; round her head is a bandlet, ornamented with stars and rosettes ; and five rows of beads serve as bracelets. Her apparel is close-fitting, and falls to a point a little above her ankles. From the fact that she wears no uraeus over her forehead we may conclude that she did not belong to the house of the Meroe queens. The registers behind the queens are buried, and all that can at present be seen of the reliefs in them are:— i. A servant leading a horse. 2,3. Attendants bringing some kind of weapons or objects used in the chase. 4. A female attendant, clad like the queen, and bearing a palm branch.

Pyramid No. 14 (Calliaud O, Hoskins E, Lepsius No. 7). The sides of this pyramid at the base measure 29 feet 9 inches.

In 1903 the chapel was in an utterly ruined state, and only the lower layers of stone of one of its walls were in situ. On these, in flat relief, were the remains of a sculpture wherein was seen the figure of a prince, holding a bow and arrows in one hand, and the end of a cord, by which the necks of a number of kneeling captives were tied together, in the other. This pyramid is one of the latest of the Northern Group. We drove a passage through it from east to west, and pierced a hole in it from the top to the bottom ; for the account of the work, see above, p. 349.

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