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)

PART V.]

MENTU-EM-HAT.

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statue is broken across immediately below the knees.
He is represented wearing a beard and elaborately
curled wig; his arms are crossed above the knees,
and across them is a single vertical line of hiero-
glyphs, recording that he " restored the temple of

Mut": ^Pi)n|[^ i Before hIm he holds

a Hathor-headed shrine of the usual kind (cf. shrine
of the statue of Sen-mut), down which is incised
a prayer to Mut " that she may give a good life
and stability in her temple to the //^-prince of

Thebes, Mentu-em-hat": ^S^fJlS^
1q) q ^ Around the legs are in-

cised twenty-two horizontal lines of inscription,
eleven on the right side and a corresponding-
number on the left. Those on the right side give
the De ketep seten formula to (1. 1) ''[Amen, . . . .]
Mentu, Lord of Thebes, Mut, Lady of Heaven,
Khonsu and [all the gods] (1. 2) within Karnak
that they may give all kinds of good offerings
for the benefit of Mentu-em-hat's Ka. In 11. 3
and 4 several important titles borne by Mentu-
em-hat are given, among them being those of

~iJit~ "great chief of the Temple," 1?C0[!J

/■/vwvs Q_J A A 1

"instructor of the priests," j^^Qt^^1"*!11 "scribe
of the temple of the house of Amen," and "Ha-
prince of Thebes (^\^^) to its entirety." In
11. 5-8, Mentu-em-hat exhorts all "priests, divine