2'i THE XlTii DYNASTY TEMPLE AT DEIR EL-BAHARI. whom Uazir of " the North loveth, live like Ra for ever ! At some time, the uame of Uazit was hammered out, and then reinserted. This alter<strong>at</strong>ion may have been made <strong>at</strong> the time of Akhen<strong>at</strong>en's crusade against the deities of Egypt 1 the names will then have been ham- mered out by him and restored aftei'wards (possibly by Rameses IT.). It must be said, however, th<strong>at</strong> the second cutting is of the same style as the rest of the inscription. I ft c. i/
is still in its oriffinal position in this colonnade. It is immedi<strong>at</strong><strong>el</strong>y behind the brick pier, and so wasdithcult to get .<strong>at</strong>. It is part of the facing- wall of the pl<strong>at</strong>form, whicli was decor<strong>at</strong>ed with r<strong>el</strong>iefs, an idea afterwards copied by the deco- r<strong>at</strong>ors of H<strong>at</strong>shepsu's <strong>temple</strong>. A.bove a dado of two l)ands of colour, placed <strong>at</strong> a height of about 2 ft. from the pavement, is the r<strong>el</strong>ief, in low work, of a tvpe entir<strong>el</strong>y different from th<strong>at</strong> of the XVII I ill Dynasty and evidently contem- porary with the building of the <strong>temple</strong>. <strong>The</strong> wall of this colonnade was decor<strong>at</strong>ed with a represent<strong>at</strong>ion of a procession of bo<strong>at</strong>s, proto- type of H<strong>at</strong>shepsu's represent<strong>at</strong>ion of her naval expedition to I'unton her colonnade. But these bo<strong>at</strong>s of the Xlth Dynasty were not meant to be going to Punt : they are small river-bo<strong>at</strong>s, sailing upon the w<strong>at</strong>ers of the Nile, wliidi are represented in the usual conventional way, by means of blue zigzags. Two of the bo<strong>at</strong>s only remain : the larger of the two is a row-bo<strong>at</strong>, manned by a number of men. It is nut im- possible th<strong>at</strong> this r<strong>el</strong>ief originally represented the funeral (or the heb-sed) procession of the king, in its solemn transit across the river from <strong>The</strong>bes to the western bank. <strong>The</strong> bo<strong>at</strong>s we see are probably two of those following in the train of the royal funeral barge. <strong>The</strong>y are very like the wooden mod<strong>el</strong> bo<strong>at</strong>s found in the Xlth Dynasty tombs both here and <strong>el</strong>sewhere in Kgypt. <strong>The</strong>se mod<strong>el</strong>s often thems<strong>el</strong>ves represent the bo<strong>at</strong>s of the funeral procession. Fragments of other parts of this r<strong>el</strong>ief have been found, representing bo<strong>at</strong>men (PI. xiv. g), one of whom has a fe<strong>at</strong>her on his head {ih. a), an Egyptian warrior with a bow, followed by an Egyptian woman holding a child {il>. f), part I )f a procession of foreign captives also, including a person in an enormous red cloak, followed by another leading a child. <strong>The</strong> style is peculiar, the work being rough and poor, and the surface has a peculiar dirty and rubbed-down appear- ance, as if it had been exposed to the air for a long period of time. <strong>The</strong> r<strong>el</strong>iefs of the Southern UK TK.MI'LI'; AND ITS EXCAVA'PION. 25 Coloimade seem to have been covered <strong>at</strong> an earlier period, for they are much l^righter in colour. <strong>The</strong>re also we have, to judy:e from the few fragments fi)und, represent<strong>at</strong>ions of bo<strong>at</strong>s (I'l. xiv., fig. c), of better style than those of North Colonnade. Other r<strong>el</strong>iefs in this colonnade seem to have depicted hunting-scenes, in which the king is seen chasing ant<strong>el</strong>opes and other desert game (PI. xvi.) ; and war-scenes, appa- rently describing a campaign in Sinai or Southern Palestine, in which the slain Adinu, y<strong>el</strong>low men with | minted beards, are seen lying in confused heaps upon the ground (PI. xiv. d). <strong>The</strong> pavement of the Northern Coloiujade is perfectly preserved. It is composed of sand- stone blocks of various shapes and sizes fitted in with cine another (PI. iii. '2). <strong>The</strong> pillars in both colonnades usually rest directly on a square slab, but in some cases the lower portion of the pillar is in one stone Avith the slab b<strong>el</strong>ow it. This arrangement is also found <strong>at</strong> Knossos in Crete.' <strong>The</strong> pavement of the Southern Colonnade is considerably broken, l)ut in one place a stone of it has been preserved which bears the memento of a pilgrim's visit : two outlines of feet, rud<strong>el</strong>y incised, in one of which is the inscription j M 2|
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