Benson, Margaret; Gourlay, Janet: The temple of Mut in Asher: an account of the excavation of the temple and of the religious representations and objects found therein, as illustrating the history of Egypt and the main religious ideas of the Egyptians (London, 1899)

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THE TEMPLE OF MET.

[PART IV.

of the bark of the sun, rowed by birds. The
inscription on the supporting column at the back
contains priestly titles ; on the side of it is in-
cised a figure of " his wife, and mistress of his
house,'' the " sistrum-player of Amen, Sa-naia-nub."
Another priest of Amen in Karnak is shown ;n
pi. XXVI. (Trench A, p. 361). His name is broken
away, but he wears the tunic of a vizier, and holds
a small statuette of Sekhet in front of him.

Only the lower half of a figure of Ser-Tahuti
(Trench B, pi. XXVII., fig. 4, p. 360) is preserved.
He was a scribe of the treasury in the temple of
Amen, and is represented kneeling, clothed in a long-
garment, and holding a shrine. The figure of a
woman, a " follower of the Goddess Mut " called
Mut-sepi, is shown in pi. XXVII., fig. 1 (Trench A,
p. 359). The inscription says she came to the
temple court "to bow down [literally, to smell the
earth] before the Mistress of Heaven," and also
gives the name of her son " Horuza, who makes
to live her name." He was high priest of Mut,
"opener of the two doors of the house of gold
of Mut," and no doubt placed the figure of
his mother in the temple. In front of her Mut-
sepi holds a small figure wearing the double
crown. She may perhaps have been a royal nurse,
but any explanation the inscription may have con-
tained of her relation to the little king is broken
away. A clumsy little figure represents a divine
father and priest of Amen, whose name is lost