PYRAMIDS NOS. 20 AND 21 group of enemies with his club. He wears a sort of sleeved jacket which descends to his knees, and is ornamented with scaleor feather-work and figures of various gods ; in each relief the captives are seven in number. The features of the king are of the Negro type with which we are already familiar, and he wears a close-fitting cap, or helmet, with streamers. Attached to the front of it is a ram-headed serpent, with an elaborate crown formed of horns, plumes, disk, uraei, &c., on its head. Near the head of each figure of the king is a single cartouche containing his name so far as is known this king adopted no prenomen. For the Meroitic inscription from this chapel see Denkinaler, VI. Bl. 8, No. 38.

Pyramid No. 20 (Cailliaud U, Hoskins C, Lepsius No. 3). This pyramid is well built with good stones of a large size, and it rests on a base which projects 3 feet on each of its four sides ; the length of each side at the base is 53 feel. The chapel was built of large stones loosely piled one on top of the other, and is now in ruins; the slabs which formed its roof cracked in the middle, and when the pieces fell down the}' did much damage to the walls. High up on the east face is the pylon-shaped opening which we have already noticed in other pyramids. In 1903 we cleared large masses of broken stones, &c., from the base of this pyramid, and made paths all round it. We sank a shaft to the depth of about 20 feet on the east side, at the place whereon the chapel had stood, and found that the entrance to the burial-place beneath the pyramid was made in the usual manner.

Pyramid No. 21 (Cailliaud V, Hoskins B, Lepsius No. 2). This pyramid is built on the second little hill to the east of No. 20 ; the length of the north side at the base is about 44 feet. A pole has in recent years been driven through the platform at the top, but whether this was done by signallers, or by men who were searching for a treasure-chamber cannot be said. The chapel, of which the greater part still remains, is built of large blocks of stone, but they are not very carefully put together ; the pylon is in ruins. At the west end of the chapel is a niche which was intended to hold figures of Osiris, Isis, and Nephthys, and the north and south walls are ornamented with the usual scenes, but they are in outline only, and the work is poor. Between 50 and 411