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G. A. Reisner
name-tablet from a foundation deposit. The possibility that the tablet has been acci-
dentally brought to Nuri from another place must of course be admitted, yet it is con-
trary to all probability. As a matter of experience, such small objects get dragged about
a cemetery, but hardly from site to site. The most natural explanation is that the tomb
of Atlanersa is at Nuri.
Atlanersa must be placed between Tanutaman and Senkamanseken. The Barkal
evidence (see § VII 1 b) proves that he was a predecessor of Senkamanseken and probably
his immediate predecessor. The style and material of his monuments indicate clearly his
association with Tirhaqa, Tanutaman, Senkamanseken, Anlaman, and Aspalta, and not
with the Kashta period. If the tomb of Atlanersa be not found at Nuri, but at some other
site, then the possibility will arise that there are other kings between Tanutaman and
Senkamanseken. On the present evidence, it would appear that the list is complete as
it stands. The position of a Piankhy II ((o P ) raises a difficulty for which at
present I am not prepared to offer an explanation. His known monuments are an altar
from Merawi, and from Thebes a linen bandage which records the year 20 of his reign.
He must therefore have been a long-lived and strong king, and was probably buried in
Egypt. These facts would place him previous to Tanutaman and Tirhaqa. Future
excavations at Barkal will probably solve the difficulty.
(4) Pyr. Ill, 2759 cm. square. Senkamanseken.
The identification of Pyr. Ill as the tomb of Senkamanseken is certain. The plan
of the tomb, the type of the pyramid, the masonry, all place this tomb in group a in associ-
ation with pyramids I and XX. The stone shawwabti-figures, the canopic jars, and the
alabaster vessels are more like those of I, XXXV, and XXXVI than those of VI and VIII,
but are not identical with the earlier objects in form. The small faience figures with a
pillar down the back (type III 2 e) are to be associated with the similar figures of XX
(Tanutaman), XXII (time of VI, Anlaman), and XLI (earlier than XXII), but differ
from all these in being hand-made (not molded). All the better figures of group b are
also hand-cut. The large faience figures of Senkamanseken, on the other hand, are
related to the series of large figures found in the pyramids of groups b and c, which assumed
the traditional type I 3 d in the time of Aspalta. The large figures of Senkamanseken
are not to be placed between those of Anlaman (VI) and Aspalta (VIII), because (1) one
of the workmen who made figures for Anlaman also made figures for Nansalsa and Madiqan,
both of whom died in the reign of Aspalta, and (2) because the peculiar feature of the
figures of Anlaman, the position of the hands, is the traditional position of the hands in
all the queens’ figures of the time of Aspalta. The foundation deposits of III do not con-
tain faience cups, though otherwise like those of VI and VIII. Nor was there a tray at
the foot of the stairway as in the pyramids of group b.
G. A. Reisner
name-tablet from a foundation deposit. The possibility that the tablet has been acci-
dentally brought to Nuri from another place must of course be admitted, yet it is con-
trary to all probability. As a matter of experience, such small objects get dragged about
a cemetery, but hardly from site to site. The most natural explanation is that the tomb
of Atlanersa is at Nuri.
Atlanersa must be placed between Tanutaman and Senkamanseken. The Barkal
evidence (see § VII 1 b) proves that he was a predecessor of Senkamanseken and probably
his immediate predecessor. The style and material of his monuments indicate clearly his
association with Tirhaqa, Tanutaman, Senkamanseken, Anlaman, and Aspalta, and not
with the Kashta period. If the tomb of Atlanersa be not found at Nuri, but at some other
site, then the possibility will arise that there are other kings between Tanutaman and
Senkamanseken. On the present evidence, it would appear that the list is complete as
it stands. The position of a Piankhy II ((o P ) raises a difficulty for which at
present I am not prepared to offer an explanation. His known monuments are an altar
from Merawi, and from Thebes a linen bandage which records the year 20 of his reign.
He must therefore have been a long-lived and strong king, and was probably buried in
Egypt. These facts would place him previous to Tanutaman and Tirhaqa. Future
excavations at Barkal will probably solve the difficulty.
(4) Pyr. Ill, 2759 cm. square. Senkamanseken.
The identification of Pyr. Ill as the tomb of Senkamanseken is certain. The plan
of the tomb, the type of the pyramid, the masonry, all place this tomb in group a in associ-
ation with pyramids I and XX. The stone shawwabti-figures, the canopic jars, and the
alabaster vessels are more like those of I, XXXV, and XXXVI than those of VI and VIII,
but are not identical with the earlier objects in form. The small faience figures with a
pillar down the back (type III 2 e) are to be associated with the similar figures of XX
(Tanutaman), XXII (time of VI, Anlaman), and XLI (earlier than XXII), but differ
from all these in being hand-made (not molded). All the better figures of group b are
also hand-cut. The large faience figures of Senkamanseken, on the other hand, are
related to the series of large figures found in the pyramids of groups b and c, which assumed
the traditional type I 3 d in the time of Aspalta. The large figures of Senkamanseken
are not to be placed between those of Anlaman (VI) and Aspalta (VIII), because (1) one
of the workmen who made figures for Anlaman also made figures for Nansalsa and Madiqan,
both of whom died in the reign of Aspalta, and (2) because the peculiar feature of the
figures of Anlaman, the position of the hands, is the traditional position of the hands in
all the queens’ figures of the time of Aspalta. The foundation deposits of III do not con-
tain faience cups, though otherwise like those of VI and VIII. Nor was there a tray at
the foot of the stairway as in the pyramids of group b.