* The first Egyptologists attributed the prenommai cartouche of Psammetichus I. to Psammetichus II., and _vice versa_: this error must always be kept in mind in referring to their works. At Memphis he built the propylons on the south side of the temple of Phtah, and the court in which the living Apis took his exercise and was fed: this court was surrounded by a colonnade, against the pillars of which were erected statues twelve cubits high, probably representing Osiris as in the Eames-seum and at Medinet-Habu. Apis even when dead also received his share of attention. Since the days when Ramses II. had excavated the subterranean Serapeum as a burial-place of the sacred bulls, no subsequent Pharaoh who had reigned at Memphis had failed to embellish their common tomb, and to celebrate with magnificence their rites of sepulture. [Illustration: 355.jpg CHAMBER AND SARCOPHAGUS OF AN APIS] Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from an engraving published in Mariette. The body of the Apis, carefully embalmed, was sealed up in a coffin or sarcophagus of hard stone, the mouth of the vault was then walled up, and against the fresh masonry, at the foot of the neighbouring rocks, on the very floor of the passage, or wherever there was a clear space available, the high dignitaries, the workmen or the priests who had taken any part in the ceremonial, set up a votive stele calling down upon themselves and their families divine benedictions. [Illustration: 356.jpg THE GREAT GALLERY OF THE SERAPEUM] Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from an engraving of Deveria.