TEMPLE OF SADDENGA pasturage for sheep and goats is scanty in the extreme. Few people suffer from actual hunger, but I am sure that every creature, both man and beast, would be the better for a little more food.

Soon after our arrival in SuwPirda the shekh waited upon the Inspector and offered us the use of a house so long as we were there; the offer was gratefully accepted, and our baggage was moved there without delay. When this had been done we went off with our diggers to look at some antiquities which were near the village, and found among them a headless basalt statue of a high THE TEMPLE BUILT IN HONOUR OF QUEEN THI AT SADDENGA.

[From Lepsius, Denknt'dUr , Abth. I. Bl. 114.

Egyptian official of the XVIIIth Dynasty. We arranged for this and other things to be dug out of the holes wherein they were half buried, and then decided to cross the river and examine the site whereon lie the ruins of the ancient Egyptian temple, generally known as the Temple of Sadden, or Saddenga. Cailliaud mentions it ( Voyage, tom. i, p. 368) in connection with the village of Nulwa, and Hoskins describes it as the Temple of Sukkot ( Travels, p. 254). The Temple of Saddenga is a mass of ruins, and only one pillar is now standing. It was quite a small building, and it is puzzling to find out what purpose it could have served. It 453 I