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Rameses II. when he worked at Bubastis, finding that the two 
statues made a good effect, and that it was unnecessary to 
have new ones of such a large size, erased the name of the 
Hyksos king, and put his own instead. A long time after- 
wards, Osorkon I]. treated Rameses I]. in the same way as 
he had done his predecessor; he erased Rameses II., but not 
so completely that we may not discover a few signs, and he 
put his own on the base. What has completely disappeared 
is the name of the Hyksos king, which would be most interest- 
ing to us. Fortunately, in another part of the temple I 
discovered on a door-post a very large cartouche containing 
the name of Apepi, the same who had been found by Mariette 
at Tanis, with a fragment of inscription saying, that “he 
raised pillars in great number and bronze doors to this god,” 
—we do not know which. Quite recently, in the first hall not 
very far from the great statues, I discovered the first part of 
his name, what is called his standard. As Apepi was a power- 
ful king, though he was one of the last Hyksos, and as we 
know from the inscription that he raised important buildings 
at Bubastis, it is probable that it was he who erected the great 
statues, and that the fine head which is now at the British 
Museum is the portrait of Apepi. This interests us particu- 
larly, because the Byzantine chronographer, Syncellus, relates 
that Apepi was the king in whose reign Joseph rose to the 
high position described in Genesis. According to the Christian 
tradition, Apepi was the Pharaoh of Joseph. 
But we were not at the end of our surprises. Close 
to the block bearing the name of Apepi, there appeared one 
day the corner of a black granite stone, which, after being 
cleared, turned out to be the base ofa sitting statue cf natural 
size, but broken at the waist. The cartouches were intact; the 
coronation name reads Userenra, which is not unknown, but 
the second Raian, or Jan-Ra, was absolutely new. The style 
of the statue pointed to the Thirteenth or Fourteenth dynasty. 
When I afterwards showed the cartouche to a learned 
Mohammedan, Ahmed Effendi Kemal, the only Egyptian who 
can read hieroglyphics, he exclaimed at once: ‘“‘ You have 
found the king of Joseph”; and when I answered that in my 
opinion it was Apepi, he explained to me, what I totally 
ignored, that, according to Arab books, the king of Joseph 
was an Amalekite, called Raian Ibn el Walid. I must say that 
J have no great faith in Arab traditions, and although at 
the time of the discovery my eminent countryman, Dr. Rieu, 
of the British Museum, wrote a letter in the Times, saying 
that he believed that there was some historical fact at the 
bottom of the Arab tradition, | am not quite convinced ; 
