PYRAMIDS OF MERGE the resting-places of royal children or mere state officials. An idea of the class and style of the reliefs which ornamented the walls of the best of the chapels may be obtained from the ALTAR WITH MEROiTlC INSCRIPTION (BERLIN, NO. 2,254).

[From Lepsius, Denkmiiler, Abth. VI. BI. 9.

drawing published by Lepsius in Defikindler, V. 54. The drawing here given is taken from the chapel of pyramid No. 25, and the relief from which it was made appears to have been almost the only one which was worth reproducing. The ruined state of the pyramids of this group is not due to any work of destruction VOL. I. 433 F f