tempi.es of RAMESES II.

wife Nefert-firi. The hall is about 35 feet long and 26 feet wide, and contains six Hathor-headed pillars, each of which bears the cartouches of Rameses II. and his wife Nefert-ari. In the sanctuary is a figure of the queen, with the attributes of Hathor, standing within a shrine, and in front of the shrine is a figure of the king making offerings of flowers to her. To the north of this temple is the stele of Ani, a Prince of Kash, and to the south is the stele, dated in the thirty-fourth year of the reign of Rameses II., recording his marriage with the daughter ' of the Prince of the Kheta. Another stele close by describes the king's victories over the land of Kheta and of Kash. A little further on is a small building, consisting of two chambers, which was dedicated to Thoth and Harmachis by Rameses II. ; quite unaccountably the cartouche of Usertsen II. is found inscribed on one of the walls. Rameses II. also built a temple in honour of Horus in this neighbourhood, but its site is unknown. At Shataui, or Mashakit as it is called by Champollion, the modern Adda, is the small rock-hewn chapel of Pa-ur, the Prince of Kash, who flourished in the reign of Rameses II. ; on a relief here we see this officer worshipping the king and the goddess Anuqet. Some thirty miles further to the south, near Faras and Aksha, is a small temple wherein Rameses II. worshipped Amen, and was himself worshipped. Curiously enough, we find no mention of Rameses II.

at Behen (Wadi Haifa) or at Semna, and his name does not appear again until we reach 'Amara. Here, on the western bank, are the ruins of a small temple, and in the course of some " trial " clearings which Mr. J. W. Crowfoot and myself made there in January, 1905, we found a large sandstone stele inscribed with a text of Rameses II. The stele was much broken, and the text appeared to be a duplicate of that of Abu Simbel ; we re-buried the fragments, and left them where we found them. We have it on the authority of Lepsius' that Rameses II. built a temple to Amen-Ra at Napata, but nothing was to be seen there of the remains upon which he based his statement.

Thus we see that Rameses II. directed his attention to building temples on the Nile between Elephantine and Ab Simbel, that ' Her Egyptian name was Ra-ma-ua-neferu.

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