THOTHMES III.

seated with a table of offerings before him, and who tells the king that he has given him life and sovereignty, &c. In the reliefs found at EUesiya, a little to the south of Derr, on the east bank of the river, the king is seen burning incense to the hawk-headed god Sept, and being embraced by Tetun,- the lord of Ta-Kenset, and standing before his great ancestor Usertsen III., whom he worships as a god. On a stele at the place, which TEMPLE OF THOTHMES III. ON THE ISLAND OF ELEPHANTINE.

[From Description de L'Egypte, torn. I., pi. 34.

is dated in the forty-second year of the reign of Thothmes III., the king is represented making an offering of milk to the goddess Sati, and another of bread to the god Horus of Maam, i.e., the classical Primis. At Ellesiya also is a cave wherein are sculptures representing the king seated between the goddesses Nekhebet and Uatchet, and making offerings to See Lepsius, Denkmdler, Abth. iii., Bl. 45.

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