THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN mentioned in the inscription of Amen-hetep II., was certainly a flourishing city under the XVIIIth Dynasty, and perhaps the capital of the district. That it was chosen by this king as a fie place wherein to display the dead body of the Syrian chief, whom he had slain with his six comrades, speaks volumes for miumvMKmmw m THE RAM OF AMEN MADE BY AMEN-HETEP HI. AND I'LACED liY HIM IN THE TEMPLE OF KHA EM-MA AT (sOlb).

its importance. Whether Amen-hetep III. built a tempLe there or not cannot be said definitively, but the probabilities are that he did ; no mention of his name has, however, been found on any portion of a building! there, but this fact counts for little at present because the site has not been thoroughly excavated. On the opposite side of the river, that is to say, among the ruins of 6i6