THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN out if they belonged to some temple which had been demolished.

Digging northwards we found the bases of several columns, and when we arrived at what appeared to be the foundations of the end wall of the temple, we concluded that there was nothing more to be discovered. Still there remained the large, mud-brick building already mentioned to be investigated, and we turned on all the men to dig.

After a few hours' work the men came upon the end of a stone slab, which when cleared turned out to be the lintel of a doorway. It is 7 feet i inch in length, 2 feet 3I inches in Aidth, and about 10 inches thick. On the upper part of it is sculptured a disk with wings and pendent uraei, which is described by the accompanying hieroglyphics as " the great god of Behutet," i.e. Horus of Behutet. So soon as the mud was washed off the face of the slab, we saw from the line of hieroglyphics below the winged disk that the stone belonged to a building, presumably a temple, which had been dedicated to Amen-Ra by Taharq, or Tirhakah, who flourished in the second quarter of the seventh century before Christ, and was the second Stjdani conqueror of Egypt. This king's cartouche appeared twice on the slab, prefixed by the ancient Pharaonic title lj meaning " King of the South and North."

The digging continued, and next the men struck the jambs 01 the doorway on which the slab had rested. These were formed of well cut stones, which were carefully laid and were ornamented with figures in hollow relief. It became evident from the course of the thick mud walls in which this stone doorway was set that the chamber we were clearing out was a small one, and that there must have been a space all round it, between it and the main walls of the building wherein it stood. The chamber had clearly been filled with mud up to the roof, which had served as the floor of a chamber of a later period. The mud came away easily from the walls and the roof, and revealed the fact that the interior had once been whitewashed, and that the roof was vaulted.

The digging was continued northwards, and at a depth of about 6 feet the picks began to strike against a stone, which was flat and square. Having cleared away the mud surrounding the 482 i