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)

3i8 THE TEMPLE OF MUT. [part v.

Min-hetep, son of Jl5^3^^ Bethu. The figure

is represented squatting, with the arms crossed over

the knees, and the name of the ^jt^o ^

"divine wife Ra-neferu,* living," is incised upon
the wrists. Down the front of the legs are one
vertical and seven horizontal lines of hieroglyphs
giving the Dc hetep set en formula to Mut, " that she
may give all that appears upon her altar and all
fine breads and delicacies " for the benefit of the Ka
of Minhetep :—■

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* The Princess Ra-neferu was the eldest daughter of Thoth-
mes II. and Hatshepsut. She must have died young, before the
adolescence of Thothmes III. Her portrait at Deir el Bahari has
been recently destroyed, but a drawing of it was made by Cham-
pollion in 1828, and published by him in his ' Monuments.'

t \ occasionally occurs as a monogram for "^"^ _ Q

Cf. ' Beni Hasan,' L, pi. xxvi., 1. 1S8.