PYRAMID OF KENRETHREQNEN Pyramid No. 3. The area covered by this pyramid is about 25 feet square ; with the exception of a few layers of stones the whole building has been taken down and carried away. Its chapel is in ruins.

Pyramid of Queen Kenrethreqnen, No. 4. This pyramid covered an area about 20 feet square, but at the present time only the chapel remains. iVn attempt has been made to reach the sepulchral chamber by digging below the chapel, but when is pSF # %lli# % %\#' SO' AK i % T2Pu 2 Q © ® I 25 50 I rb 100 Metres SOUTHERN GROUP PLAN OF THE PYRAMIDS OF MERGE. GROUP B.

[From Cailliaud, Voyage, Plate XXXV.

not known. On the west wall, above the false door, are the remains of a relief of the Boat of Ra, with the deceased kneeling in adoration before Harpocrates, who is sitting in the bows. In the inscription below is a prayer on behalf of the deceased, who is made to ask the gods to grant suits of apparel of byssus, &c., incense, cakes, &c. On the north wall we see the queen seated under a canopy, the cornice of which is formed of uraei wearing disks ; she has a whip in her right hand, and three lotus flowers in her left. Before her face are two cartouches which, together VOL. I. 417 e e