THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN s s 1 I Im I': longed to the Ethiopian period. These statues stood, undoubtedly, one on each side of the door of a temple, the site of which was about 260 feet long, and about 163 feet wide. The stones which formed the temple have been removed, and there is absolutely nothing left to suggest that it would be worth while making excavations there. A little distance behind the statues are the remains of a headless black granite seated statue.

Hoskins says that this statue was half-buried in the ruins, and that the name of Sabaco [i.e., Shabaka] is engraved on it in hieroglyphics. Viewed in the light of his observations on p. 296 of his Travels, to the eifect that the name Shabaka is not found on any of the monuments of Ethiopia, this statement is difficult to understand. Lepsius in his great work- publishes an Q outline drawing of a seated statue on the Island of Arko, and on each side of the legs is a J r—-column of hieroglyphs containing the names and titles of the king whom it represents. From the inscriptions, which are here given, we see that in the one column we have the king's prenomen and his titles, and in the other the king's nomen and a repetition of the titles. These read, " Lord of the vulture shrine, lord of the " uraeus shrine, abundant of risings [like Ra], " King of the South and North, Ra-kha-nefer, " beloved of Osiris Un-nefer, giver of life for " ever." In the second column, besides these titles, we have the king's name, Sebek-hetep.

It seems that Hoskins knew the value of the first sign in the second cartouche, and that he assumed Sebek to be the equivalent of Sabaco. This black granite statue in many ways resembles the statues of Usertsen III. set up by himself in various shrines in the Siidan, and it belongs, in my opinion, to a period much earlier than that of the two colossal statues which have already been described.

' Travels, p. 2. ' Denkmiiler, Abth. ii., BI. 120.

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