THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN reaches below its body. In the second register is a youth, presumably the queen's son, followed by three women bearing palm branches, with their right hands raised in salutation. Above the head of each woman is an inscription in the Meroitic character.

Pyramid Nos. 33-35. Wholly ruined. From a stone of the chapel wall of No. 35 Lepsius gives a drawing of an elephant [Denkmdler, V. 50 c).

THE BUILDER OF PYRAMID NO. 32.

[From Lepsius, Denkmd/er, Ahth. V. Bl. 50.

Pyramid No. 36. A mass of ruins, with the false door only standing. For the Meroitic inscription see Denkin'nler, VI. Bl. 8, No. 39.

Pyramid No. 37. Already described. See No. 16. Pyramid No. 38. Already described. See No. 17. Pyramid No. 39. Already described. See No. 18. For the Meroitic inscription see Denkmdler, VI. Bl. 8, Nos. 40-42.

Pyramid Nos. 40-43. All these we excavated in 1903. For the Meroitic inscription from o. isee. Denkniiiler, VI. Bl. 8, No. 43.

From what has been said above it is clear that the pyramids of the Northern Group belong to all periods of the Meroitic Kingdom. The oldest, I believe, are the first three or four which stand on the south end of the hill crescent. Next in point of age come those of the great queens of Meroi-, some of whom bore the general name of ** Candace," who appropriated to their tombs the best sites on the hill. And last of all come the pyramids which are built on 414 J