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of the nose. The head-dress was absolutely that of an 
Egyptian king, and the height of the whole head could be 
estimated as more than three feet. The next day, to our 
creat joy, the lower part of the head was discovered ; it 
was complete, except a fragment of one of the cheeks 
and one of the ears, and we recognised at once the Hyksos 
type; there was the projecting mouth, the thick and curved 
nose, the strongly-marked cheek-bones, the cheeks themselves 
being rather hollow. It was the first time that the head of a 
Hyksos king was discovered wearing a thoroughly Hgyptian 
head-dress, which rendered more conspicuous the strange type 
of the foreign race. At the distance of a few feet a broken 
fragment of black granite was emerging out of the ground, 
and cn digging a few inches it was easy to recognise that it 
was the lower part of the legs of a colossal statue, which clearly 
belonged to the same monument as the head. I could not 
excavate immediately. It was the beginning of March, and 
the soil was still so full of infiltration-water that beyond a 
certain depth we were in ponds of water, which hampered the 
work considerably. I waited a few weeks; the water sank, 
and my impatience grew in proportion. At last, although 
there was still much water, I ordered that the base of the 
statue should be cleared and dragged out. The first thing to 
be done was of course to make room around it. Our surprise 
was immense when this revealed to us the lower part of a 
colossal torso close to the base we were endeavouring to drag 
out; and a few feet to the south, very near the place where we 
had found the broken head, the base of another statue of the 
same size, lying on the side and showing the whole of one leg. 
Thus it was not one but two statues which had stood there ; 
we had two bases, we could reasonably hope that we should 
discover another head. ‘The one we had, the Hyksos, was 
broken, perhaps the other might be intact. From that moment 
the researches grew intensely interesting. I promised a good 
baksheesh to the workmen if the head was discovered; and a 
few hours afterwards, while I was in another part of the 
temple, I suddenly heard them shouting: rds, rés,—the head, 
the head! I shall never forget this sight, nor this hour, 
perhaps the most impressive I went through during my five 
winters of excavation. It was late in the afternoon; out of a 
pond of water, between the base and the torso, emerged the 
top of a head and the royal asp, the upper part only had been 
cleared and was visible above the water. There was no place for 
us to stand, or rather to kneel, except on that head, which we 
did in turn, Count d’Hulst and1; and while the excited work- 
men drove out with their hands the water which was coming 
