ng his inscription, of which the lower part was
discovered by Naville at Bubastis, appears to have been really carved
for himself or for one of his contemporaries. It is a work possessing no
originality, though of very commendable execution, such as would render
it acceptable to any museum; the artist who conceived it took 'his
inspiration with considerable cleverness from the best examples
turned out by the schools of the Delta under the Sovkhotpfts and the
Nofirhotpus. But a small grey granite lion, also of the reign of Khiani,
which by a strange fate had found its way to Bagdad, does not raise our
estimation of the modelling of animals in the Hyksos period.

* Naville, who reads the name Rayan or Yanra, thinks that
this prince must be the Annas or Iannas mentioned by Manetho
as being one of the six shepherd-kings of the XVth dynasty.
Mr. Petrie proposed to read Khian, Khiani, and the fragment
discovered at Gebelein confirms this reading, as well as a
certain number of cylinders and scarabs. Mr. Petrie prefers
to place this Pharaoh in the VIIIth dynasty, and makes him
one of the leaders in the foreign occupation to which he
supposes Egypt to have submitted at that time; but it is
almost certain that he ought to be placed among the Hyksos
of the XVIth dynasty. The name Khiani, more correctly
Khiyani or Kheyani, is connected by Tomkins, and Hilprecht
with that of a certain Khayanu or Khayan, son of Gabbar, who
reigned in Amanos in the time of Salmanasar II., King of
Assyria.

[Illustration: 084.jpg BROKEN STATUE OF KHIANI]

Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Naville.

It is heavy in form, and the muzzle in no way recalls the fine profile
of the lions executed by the sculptors of earlier times. The pursuit
of science and the culture of learning appear to have been more
successfully perpetuated than the fine arts; a treatise on mathematics,
of which a copy has come down to us, would seem to have been recopied,
if not remodelled, in the twenty-second year of Apophis IL Ausirri. If
we only possessed more monuments or documents treating of this period,
we should doubtless perceive that their sojourn on the banks of the
Nile was instrumental in causing a speedy change in the appearance and
character of the Hyksos. The strangers retained to a certain extent
their coarse countenances and rude manners: they showed no aptitude for
tilli