THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN 60 feet from the chapel is a shallow, flat-bottomed depression covered with sand. This is not the remains of a lake, as some have supposed, but it is the entrance to the passage in the side of the hill through which the body of the deceased was carried to its last resting-place under the pyramid.

Pyramid of Amen-netek, or Netek-Amen, No. 22 (Cailliaud X, Hoskins A, Lepsius No. i). This pyramid is built on the third little hill to the east of No. 2, and is the only one of the Northern Group which is oriented to the south. The length of one side at the base is 30 feet 8 inches. The pyramid itself is in a good state of preservation, but the chapel is partially ruined and its pylon is destroyed. On the west wall is a figure of the king who is seated on a lion-throne, with nine bows by the side of it, Isis stands behind him in the usual attitude, and, by the side of an altar or table of offerings in front of the king, is a priest making an offering 'of burning incense. Behind the priest we see a row of ministrants, and some men leading forward several donkeys. The appearance of asses in sepulchral reliefs in the chapels of the pyramids at Meroe is rare. In this instance it seems as if they were intended for sacrifices ; we found the bones of a camel and a horse, among others, under one of the small pyramids which we excavated, and it would not be surprising if, when cattle were not available, asses were sacrificed in their stead. Of the period of the reign of Amen-netek, [fjjf], or f(|° ] ; nothing is known ; he adopted the prenomen of Usertsen I.

( O U 1) which we see not only on the walls of his chapel ' but also on an altar which was found by Lepsius at Wad Ba Nagaa, and removed by him to Berlin. From this altar we learn that Amen-netek's wife was called Amen-tarit, ((] '——-' " '•' ' M J. Up to this point the order of the descriptions of the pyramids of the Northern Group is that' of Cailliaud, the first traveller who published any account of them, only letters of the alphabet have been used instead of-numerals ; to the remaining pyramids of the group Lepsius's numbers are given.

See Lepsius, Denkmd/er, V. 25.

See Lepsius, Denkmd/er, V. 55 ;' and the official Verseichtiiss, p. 404.

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