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STELE OF KING SMENDES
(TWENTY-FIRST DYNASTY)1
King Smendes, the founder of the twenty-first Tanite
Dynasty, has long eluded the researches of the Egyptolo-
gists. It is only three years ago that M. Daressy, assistant-
conservator of the Muséum at Cairo, had the good fortune
to discover a monument belonging to him. He at once
published the text and a translation of it under the title of
Les Carrières de Gébéléin et le roi Smendès, in the Recueil
de Travaux relatifs à la Philologie et à l'Archéologie
égyptiennes et assyriennes, t. X, pp. 133-138.
Dababieh, opposite to Gebelein, some miles above Thebes,
and on the right bank of the Nile, is the place where he
made the discovery. Quarries exist there of considérable
extent and of very hard sandstone, which is as serviceable to
the sculptor as to the builder ; some of the quarries are open
to the sky, others consist of large chambers excavated in the
rock. In one place, on a rock-cut pillur which had been
left at the entrance of the quarry, a tablet occurs in which
Seti I. déclares that he had sent workmen to the city of
Hathor, that is to say, to Gebelein, in order to extract the
stone in large quantities for « the temple of Millions of
Years of Menmârî (otherwise, of himself), which is on the
1. Publié dans les Records of the Pasi, second Séries, vol. V,
p. 17-24.
BlBL ÉGYPT., T. XL. 17
(TWENTY-FIRST DYNASTY)1
King Smendes, the founder of the twenty-first Tanite
Dynasty, has long eluded the researches of the Egyptolo-
gists. It is only three years ago that M. Daressy, assistant-
conservator of the Muséum at Cairo, had the good fortune
to discover a monument belonging to him. He at once
published the text and a translation of it under the title of
Les Carrières de Gébéléin et le roi Smendès, in the Recueil
de Travaux relatifs à la Philologie et à l'Archéologie
égyptiennes et assyriennes, t. X, pp. 133-138.
Dababieh, opposite to Gebelein, some miles above Thebes,
and on the right bank of the Nile, is the place where he
made the discovery. Quarries exist there of considérable
extent and of very hard sandstone, which is as serviceable to
the sculptor as to the builder ; some of the quarries are open
to the sky, others consist of large chambers excavated in the
rock. In one place, on a rock-cut pillur which had been
left at the entrance of the quarry, a tablet occurs in which
Seti I. déclares that he had sent workmen to the city of
Hathor, that is to say, to Gebelein, in order to extract the
stone in large quantities for « the temple of Millions of
Years of Menmârî (otherwise, of himself), which is on the
1. Publié dans les Records of the Pasi, second Séries, vol. V,
p. 17-24.
BlBL ÉGYPT., T. XL. 17