DEIR-EL-BAHRI, date .1-16're Inort hem cement . o oils rn Arabic mime of it •...? I tian the site of the aneitnt Th. Ites q,c. . It ails built by Queen llat-lie psut Ilatasti t, the si.t. r and Ivile of Thoth ,. II • I at a. ter t :1 nt.mnstcry, whence its Milne: and the reliefs adorning th. walls were badly mutilated by zealous inn who regarded them as of heathenism. The temple was dedicated t..1 rho ^oil Aw•• of Thebes, and also contained chapels for the deities Allior and as %yell a- a funerary chapel for Queen llatslie p-lit. It i- built upon three terraces rising in saute-sive step- from the plain. each ettntnining court with CO11111111(41 1)( rticae. and other build lags. The principal buildings surround the upper (mint. at the rear of which is the sanc tuary. The kk of the various halls and chap cis are •agnificently decorated with senlptures and painting:. In one of the halls is depicted the 1]•et scot by 1,1th .11 lIal•heitstit to l'unt. on
the coat. I See EcrItT. islory.) The site w is 41 by ,Nlariette, and later No ville• ?hin: under the auspices of the Egypt Explorilbm Ettinl. cleared the whole temple of rubbish and I xplored it syst•matically. In 14S1 no f•wer than thirty-nine mummies and cotlins of king: and men her: of the royal house were found in a de, p. rocky pit near Deir-el Ilahri and r. mole•I to the ]mink Museum. Among the mummies fomol were those of .4.'1411,111:c% Aina.
I.. I., Thothines 11., Thothmes III., Set i I 11 mese; 1„, 1:arues.•.. II. GMAIlt : (Leipzig, 18771: Dilmi chen, r tat/paw-kin It.inaqin 1 aapii I •;11s I : J:gypt /:.ru Ilncrl Ili moirs, tad:.
\vi, I 1..,11.I.•n, 1s01 et seq.) Uttide to the T. mph- of 1-1:ah•i. puldi-hed by the Exploration Fund ( London).