AMEN-HETEP II.

Gebel Barkal, and is about fourteen hundred miles, by river, from the Mediterranean Sea. If this identification be correct, and it certainly seems to be so, it shows not only that an important city existed in the Dongola province in the reign of Amen-hetep II., but that Egyptian influence was paramount in it.

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in the Sudan, we may note that he enlarged the temple of Usertsen I. at Behen, or Wadi Haifa, and set up therein several pillars whereon he caused his names and titles to be cut. A plan of this temple was published by Champollion,' and among its remams was found the stele of an official who flourished in the reign of Usertsen I., which gives the names of a number of Nubian tribes ; the work carried out there by Captain Lyons has already been described. At Kumma Amen-hetep II. made 3 Jl_ Q E3 E3 O O [ PLAN OF THE TEMPLE OF AMF.N-HETEP U. AT WADI HALFA.

[From Champollion, Afonumcnts de I'tlgypte, p. 50.

additions to the temple, and on several reliefs there we see " him making off'erings to Khnemu, the god of the Cataract, to whom he dedicated his buildings. In one place we see him standing face to face with Usertsen III., whose right hand rests upon his shoulder in an encouraging manner ; an inscription states that the temple was built of shdt stone. The only place further south where his name has been found on the rums of buildings is the Island of Sai, but when the site of Napata has been cleared out we may expect to find traces of his rule, and probably of buildings which he set up there.

The inscriptions unfortunately tell us nothing about the extent ' Notices, p. 50.

-Lepsius, Denkmdler, Abth. iii., Bll. 66, 67.

•' See Lepsius, Letters, p. 257.

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