of the Great Hypostyle Hall of Seti in the background.  The huge size of the roof-blocks is noticeable.  These are not the actual uppermost roof-blocks, but only the architraves from pillar to pillar; the original roof consisted of similar blocks laid across in the transverse direction from architrave to architrave.  An Egyptian granite temple was in fact built upon the plan of a child’s box of bricks; it was but a modified and beautified Stonehenge.

[Illustration:  381.jpg PORTRAIT-GROUP OF A GREAT NOBLE AND HIS WIFE]

     Of The Time Of The Xviiith Dynasty.  Discovered by M. Legrain
     at Karnak.

Other important discoveries have been made by M. Legrain in the course of his work.

[Illustration:  382.jpg A TOMB PITTED UP AS AN EXPLORER’S RESIDENCE.]

     The Tomb of Pentu (No. 5) at Tell el-Amarna, inhabited by
     Mr. de G. Davies during his work for the Archaeological
     Survey of Egypt (Egypt Exploration Fund).  About 1400 B.C.

Among them are statues of the late Middle Kingdom, including one of King Usertsen (Senusret) IV of the XIIIth Dynasty.  There are also reliefs of the reign of Amenhetep I, which are remarkable for the delicacy of their workmanship and the sureness of their technique.

We know that the temple was built as early as the time of TJsertsen, for in it have been found one or two of his blocks; and no doubt the original shrine, which was rebuilt in the time of Philip Arrhidseus, was of the same period, but hitherto no remains of the centuries between his time and that of Hatshepsu had been found.  With M. Legrain’s work in the greatest temple of Thebes we finish our account of the new discoveries in the chief city of ancient Egypt, as we began it with the work of M. Naville in the oldest temple there.

One of the most interesting questions connected with the archaeology of Thebes is that which asks whether the heretical disk-worshipper Akhunaten (Amenhetep IV) erected buildings there, and whether any trace of them has ever been discovered.  To those who are interested in Egyptian history and religion the transitory episode of the disk-worship heresy is already familiar.  The precise character of the heretical dogma, which Amenhetep IV proclaimed and desired his subjects to. accept, has lately been well explained by Mr. de Garis Davies in his volumes, published by the “Archaeological Survey of Egypt” branch of the Egypt Exploration Fund, on the tombs of el-Amarna.  He shows that the heretical doctrine was a monotheism of a very high order.  Amenhetep IV (or as he preferred to call himself, Akhunaten, “Glory of the Disk”) did not, as has usually been supposed, merely worship the Sun-disk itself as the giver of life, and nothing more.  He venerated the glowing disk merely as the visible emanation of the deity behind it, who dispensed heat and life to all living things through its medium.  The disk was, so to speak, the window in heaven through which the unknown