USERTSEN I.

temple lies about 200 yards to the north of the temple of Thothmes II.

and Thothmes III., and it was first cleared out by Captain Lyons. In the sanctuary he found the remaining or lower portion of the famous stele, which was set up by the officer Menthu-hetep to record the victory of Usertsen I. over the tribes whose names were duly recorded on it, and portions of a duplicate. We have already referred to the upper half of the stele, which was found by Rosellini and taken to Florence, and as Captain Lyons sent to the Museum there the \> 118 metres to iviag.North\ pivepbank SECTION OF V-SHAPED DITCH.

lower half which he discovered, this important monument may now be seen in a complete state. Besides these objects he recovered from the second temple the interesting stele of Erta.-Antef-Teti, a " governor of the South," i.e.. Nubia, in the reign of Usertsen I., and four or five smaller stelae. The stele of Erta-Antef-Teti he presented to the Trustees of the British Museum, where it is now exhibited in the Southern Egyptian Gallery (No.

1 177), and the smaller stelae to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The Surveyed by Capt. H. G. Lyons, R.E.

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