THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN governor of Nubia was a prince called Ren-seneb.' The twentyfirst king of this dynasty, Nefer-hetep, apparently caused work to be carried on in the quarries at Elephantine, for on a rock on the Island of Konosso he is represented standing before the God Khnemu, andclose by his cartouche is seen by the side of Menthu-Ra, Menu, and Satet. On the Island of Sahal he is seen adoring Anuqet, and figures of himself and the members of his family are roughly sculptured on the rocks near Aswan. The twenty- third king of this dynasty, Sebek-hetep III., was the greatest of the dynasty. The extent of his sway is proved by the fact that he set up colossal statues of himself at Tanis and Bubastis, the COLOSSAL .STATUE OF A KLNG ON THE LSLAM) OK ARKU.

[From Lepsius, DcnkmuUr, Abth. I. Bl. 120.

seats of his power in the Delta, jfhd on the Island of Argo, or Arko.

This Island is about twenty miles long, and its southern end is about two hundred and five miles from Wadi Haifa ; it lies a little to the south of the head of the Third Cataract, and between it and the Fourth Cataract boats can sail up and down the river every day in the year. Arko was visited by M. Cailliaud in 1821, and he describes the vegetation upon it in glowing terms.'

* See Lepsius, Denkmdler, Bd. ii., Bl. 151.

" Les v6getaux respirent sur cette ile la fraicheur et la vie : les arbres qui " ont p4ri dessiSchs par la main du temps ou touffs par les violentes " 6treintes des lianes, presentent eux-memes les apparences de la vigueur et de " la jeunesse, sous le tissu de verdure dont les enlacent ces plantes gigan-"tesques, qui ferment de toute part de magnifiques berceaux que I'art aurait " peine k imiter " {Voyage, tom. ii., p. 2).

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