highly poetical manner in a composition generally known as the =Poem of Pentaurt=. As a matter of fact Pentaurt was not the author, but merely the scribe who made the fullest copy of the work known, namely, that in the British Museum Papyrus, Sallier III. Thirteen years after the conclusion of the treaty with the Kheta, _i.e._, in the thirty-fourth year of his reign, Rameses II married the daughter of the prince of the Kheta, whose Egyptian name was Maā-Rā ur-neferu. [Illustration: PLATE XXXVIII. Front of the rock-hewn temple built at Abû Simbel by Rameses II, B.C. 1330, to commemorate his victory over the Kheta.] Rameses was a great builder; his name is found everywhere on monuments and buildings in Egypt, and he frequently usurped the works of his predecessors and inscribed his own name on statues, etc., which he did not make. The smallest repair of a sanctuary was sufficient excuse for him to have his name inscribed on pillars, architraves, door-jambs, and every prominent part of the building. His greatest works were: =1.= The rock-hewn =temple of Abû-Simbel=, dedicated to Ȧmen, Rā-Harmachis and Ptaḥ (see =Plate XXXVIII=); its length is 185 feet, its height 90 feet, and the four colossal statues of the king in front of it are each 60 feet high. In the large hall are eight square pillars, each 30 feet high, each with a colossal figure of Osiris, 17 feet high, standing against it. =2.= The rock-hewn =temple of Bêt al-Walî= at Kalâbshah. =3.= The =Ramesseum= at Thebes, called by Diodorus the “Tomb of Osymandyas,” and by Strabo the “Memnonium.” The granite statue of the king which stood before the second pylon was 60 feet high, and weighed about 900 tons. He completed the =Hall of Columns= at Karnak; added to the temple of Ȧmen-ḥetep III at Luxor; and set up several statues of himself and two granite obelisks, each about 80 feet high. In the Delta he rebuilt =Tanis=, which became a city of the first importance, and he built the city of Pa-Temu, the =Pithom= of Exodus i, II, which is now called =Tall al-Maskhûṭah=; from the latter place came the statue of the “Recorder of Pithom” (Bay 21, No. =776=). At Memphis, Abydos, and every important city of Egypt and Nubia, he carried on building operations; and he dug wells in Wâdî Ulâḳî, in the desert to the east of Dakkah, and worked the gold mines there. His reign was one of great material prosperity, and he lived long enough to carry out every work of importance which he planned. He was not a great soldier like Thothmes III, or a great administrator and diplomatist like Ȧmen-ḥetep III; and the glory and power, and the territory of Egypt were not so great as in the days of those kings. Few of the works carried out by Rameses can be compared with those of the great kings of the XVIIIth dynasty in beauty of design, finish, and solidity. [Illustration: Façade of the Ramesseum in Western Thebes. About B.C. 1330.]