THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN DOOR JAMB INSCKIKED WITH NAME AND THE TITLES OF THOTHMES III. Found on the east hank of the Nile at Wadt Haifa (British Museum, No. 1,019). Presented to the British Museum by Sir Charles Holled Smith, K.C.M.G., 1887.

Thothmes III. also appears to have built a small temple on the east bank of the river, on a site not very far from the position occupied by the British Camp in 1886. When I visited the camp in that year I saw in a wall of one of the huts a long slab of sandstone with an inscription on it which was almost covered with mud ; this being removed, the hieroglyphics showed that it had formed part of some edifice which was dedicated to Horus of Behen by Thothmes III. Colonel Holled Smith had the slab removed at once from the wall, and sent it home by me to the British Museum, where it now is (No.

i,oig). Inquiry showed that the slab was found among a heap of ruins on the east bank, close to the river. In connection with this, it must be mentioned that Captain Lyons noted that " there was visible at low Nile in 1902, " at the north end of the Haifa lines, a " flight of steps, which certainly be-" longed to some ancient building on "the east bank."

Passing on now to Semna, we find the stone temple which Thothmes III.

dedicated to the gods Amen, Khnemu, Menthu, and Tetun, in commemoration of his great predecessor Usertsen III., to whom divine honours were paid here and elsewhere in the Sudan. The general situation of the building has already been described,' and we may therefore pass on to note briefly the reliefs which adorn it, and the inscrip-1 Vol. I., pp. 476-8.

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