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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Titelblatt
Preface
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fesses failure in offering an explanation of itself,
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We began our second season in the same mind,
Contents
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THE RELIGION OF EGYPT.
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THE TEMPLE.........120-130
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EIGHTEENTH DYNASTY, AAHMES TO HATSHEPSUT . 149-176
List of Plates
Part I
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gramme to carry out, can be expected to go round
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Yet a temple which has been built and added to
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THE EXCAVATORS.
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The principle of backsheesh must be determined
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Men working in ground that is not theirs, to
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more than one or two chips were broken by the
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They were singularly amenable from the first, and,
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between 6 p.m. and 3 a.m., with the broken sleep
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we felt it was still worse to induce them from
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chap, ii.] CRIMES OF THE DIGGERS.
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One fact that our enquiries as to methods of
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Finally after much worry we realised that the
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with the idea that the head was not an important
Part II
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THE FIRST DISCOVERIES.
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cartouche is usurped by a king's name, and the
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As we turned the corner of the north wall towards
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holding his hand about two feet from the ground.
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iii Doorway of Setnekht.
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k Chamber of Ptolemy VII.
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10 Block in Wall, with Relief of Thothmes III.
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21 Reworked Stone, with Cartouche of
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PLAN OF THE TEMPLE OF MUT. To face /. 36.
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In clearing the short piece of wall before men-
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some different work from the rest, for the figure
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all, of those statues which appeared to be in situ
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By this time the second court was clear, showing
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working, but great masses of stone had fallen in
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Petrie, usually include small models of tools and
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We were advised to dig for these deposits in the
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to allow one to stand upright. The chamber was
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to admit the shoulders or the average person but
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nothing more at this time, and came to the con-
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to the top of a narrower stone wall ; but this latter
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that these had to be smashed with an iron crowbar
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Our results, including as they did the Piankhy
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We all intended to go down the river in the first
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He did not as we expected soon get to the end
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thousand years of ruin had left to it and in some
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spot an earlier temple than that we were now
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We intended therefore to finish the clearance
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of the ground simultaneously ; for clearness' sake,
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the steep path over the edge of the mound, we saw
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Two great masses of black granite had been un-
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p. 350). This evidently from the finish of the work
Plate 6
To face p. 66.
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parted in the middle and brought down low in front
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With these heads also came out the body of a
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and some trace of colouring. The head and figure
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chap, v.] YIELD OF THE THIRD TRENCH.
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thoroughly the iconoclasts did their work when
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such as a clay mould of the seal of Rameses III.
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THE PTOLEMAIC SHRINE.
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shrine to the lake, and on searching for these we
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two of reddened sotne, one white with traces of
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searched that part of the court where they might be,
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in sand and gravelly soil. Many of the stones were
Part III
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MULTITUDE OF GODS.
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in the habit of going about in the character of
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In reality the difficulty of comprehension arises
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we know that it is the explanation of the Egyptian
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The question to be solved is : What causes
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84 THE TEMPLE OF MUT. [part iii.
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This is strikingly exemplified in the theory of the
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effect." Thus, for example, the god incarnated him-
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* Professor Wiedemann speaks of the Egyptian " incapacity
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OF RELIGION.
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cosmic forces, or with the abstract deities of the
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period of Egyptian history a growing mysticism,
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Moreover, if we look at their functions and the
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and their temples chief in Apt. The temple of
Plate 8
To /ace p. 94.
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tive, are not at all tokens of thanksgiving.
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as "the gift of a sharp countenance," or so refined
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chap, vii.] THE LIMITATIONS OF THE KA.
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any rate if it is to be comfortable and satisfied ; it is
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concerned and he instances that in the story of
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though the physical powers of the Ka seem limited
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ri8 THE TEMPLE OF MUT. [part hi.
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Like the wraith, the Double, the ghost, which
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As the electric spark is born of the interruption
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alien to the Egyptian, as to all young races. Art
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nor that the process takes place within the history of any given
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the yearning of the rank and file after the easier
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Thus Moses would be familiar with the inner rites
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to accept. The rod of the priest in the theocracy
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cut off on one side, swearers on the other, the roll
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wings to carry Wickedness in the ephah into the
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Again, it is possible that, at the time when the
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dwelt at one place ; they passed to others ; they
Part IV
135
chap, ix.] ACTS OF AMENEMHAT.
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of a great king, who with one hand welded Egypt
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of his work scattered along the whole length of the
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are not idle boasting, but a simple consciousness of
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But it is well worth while to linger for a moment
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the tents of this prince, and they, with Sanehat at
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" There is none like him : he is a master of wisdom, prudent
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RETURN OF SANEHAT.
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the prayer, and bade him come leaving all his
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him in a moment the ways of all those years of life,
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THE TEMPLE
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strong hand. He crushed the tribes of the " vile
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man in my time. When there came years of famine I arose. I
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to the widow as to her that had a husband : nor did I favour the
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C' 668+~ fortunately been preserved. In the years during
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Professor Petrief has excavated these remains of
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WAY OF USERTESEN.
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at Dashur. In it M. de Morgan found the jewel 2622.
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content to leave their boats below the cataract, and
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DECLINE OF THE DYNASTY.
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the two short reigns of his son and daughter,
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The 12th dynasty ranks with the 4th and
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Of the 14th dynasty our knowledge is even more ^ ^112-
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Into a country thus weakened poured the strong-
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Hyksos ; the best-known name among them is that of 1738.
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Thothmes I. then was in an inferior position as
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Towards the end of his reign then, when
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tion. | He had one daughter and one son. The
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HI. I ' History of Egypt,' vol. ii., p. 66.
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the rule of the greatest queen who ever reigned.
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her nephew and son-in-law with herself on the
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Hatshepsut and Thothmes II. also built the main
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16| THE TEMPLE OF MUT. [part iv.
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The temple of Deir el Bahari is the glory of
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We have already spoken of the finding of the
Plate 12
To face ft.
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"director of the directors of works" ; that he was
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created a prince, the " companion greatly beloved,"
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Hat-nefer. " He appears there to have had special
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and entitled the royal seal-bearer, the companion, greatly beloved,
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with his name, on which he is called "priest of
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RECORD OF HATSHEPSUT.
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thev were for her "great father Amen." and to
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nephew. To him she married her second daughter,
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daughter of Hatshepsut, to be married to her
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recorded that the "keeper of her palace" was her
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THE TEMPLE OF MUT.
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When Hatshepsut was about sixty years old she
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up by a very midnight of hatred.
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W hether it were solely by undisputed right of
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malignity he sought to erase all trace of her name
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Thothmes attempted to erase her record. Where he
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THE TEMPLE OF MUT
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It may be thought idle to speculate on the affec-
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like that of Thothmes no shadow ; and the mahVnitv
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eighteenth dynasty. thothmes iii. to ay.
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the most conspicuous figure in Egyptian history.
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Mention has already been made of the ungenerous
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chap, xi.] PASSAGE OF MOUNT CARMEL.
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file. The king asked advice from his officers, and
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But the king, confident and eagerly impatient,
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road of Aaruna ; let him of you who wall go on the
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iSo THE TEMPLE OF MET. [part iv.
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Then they said to his Majesty: "As lives thy
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even as servants follow their master." Into the
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upon the gods, he did it all with the same fierce
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and a wide empire, but was content to enjoy what
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which was disputed—was neatly proved by the dis-
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than to attempt fresh conquest. Such personal
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too he suffered at the hands of his successors, for
Plate 14
To face p. igo.
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THE TEMPLE OF MUT.
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Thothmes IV. married a Syrian princess, according
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Egypt as the mother of Amenhetep III., with
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Under Amenhetep III. Egypt touched the summit
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the time of his accession ; his early portraits as king
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those of Thothmes the builder of the empire. To
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therefore marriage with the princess confirmed her
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sentiment. We can well understand from the por-
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ground, the broad-shouldered Theban hills. Of that
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sit, the green corn or the broad waters of the inunda-
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Thou art the sun, thou settest their bounds,
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Their breath is shut up and eye sees not to eye,
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The land brightens, for thou risest in the horizon,
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Throughout the land they do their labours,
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How many are the things which thou hast made.
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HYMN TO THE ATEN.
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When thou hast made the Nile beneath the earth,
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Oh lord of the land that risest for them.
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The land is in thy hand even as thou hast made them :
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* Petrie, 'History of Egypt,' pp. 215 ff. Translation by
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way at once, but no king of Egypt could ever
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One letter may be quoted as typical of the state
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[Thothmes IV.] ? The gods of Egypt dwell in Dump. But we
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Akhenaten died while yet only thirty-four years of
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The " divine father " Ay, who succeeded Tutankh- B c-
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Akhenaten. Why he should have obtained the
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to assign it to the end of the iSth dynasty. The
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high office in the household of whatever king
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With the 19th dynasty we come to the beginning
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The dynasty opens with a twin reign. Rameses I., rB,2g'
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TOMB OF SETI.
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In the arid valley of the tombs of the kings Seti
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Rameses II., formerly called the Great, is a B-c-
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WORKS OF RAMESES.
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But we have also more personal records of the
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f Murray's 'Handbook' to Egypt, p. 784.
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chap, xii.] THE SON OF PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER. 219
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1S83 have established the site of Pi-tum or Pithom,
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Edwards's t observations of the bricks with straw,
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THE BOASTS OF RAMESES.
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While the Israelites still groaned under the hard
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divine honours. He patronised the very gods,
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If the finger had already written on the wall he
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lies to-day exposed to public gaze in the Museum
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We have, as has been said, an unusual amount of
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sword" was fifth; the "Beloved of Ptah " was but
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on the edge of the Libyan desert which had been
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reverence for the work of his predecessors. The
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The archers threw their bows away,
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leave to pass that they might pasture their flocks by
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Merenptah left no remains in the Temple of Mut
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have combined Rameses' power of self-laudation "i
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E.c. \\Z"e Jo not wonder, when the boasts of the family
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"68. queen Ta-usert and of the king Siptah, last king
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Siptah married Ta-usert ; but as the foundation
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Thus this evidence also confirms the idea that
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In the declining times of the 20th dynasty there
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absorbed by the semi-mythical Sesostris.
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probable that in these times of internal contention
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In these times the gods established their son b.c.
Plate 17
To face ft. 232.
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easily destroyed, and was therefore thrown out of
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"son of the doctor and superintendent of recruits of
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Mr. Newberry's calculation on the basis of these
Plate 18
To face p. 238.
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THE RAMESSIDES.
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Rameses VI., a son of Rameses III., appears ^
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in his Commission instituted to inquire into the
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of those, called the Xllth, is a wholly fictitious
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closed. He contributed a few monuments to Egypt,
Plate 19
SEKHET OF SHESHANQ I.
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chap, xiv.] HIS RECORD AT THE TEMPLE. 249
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" high priest of Amen-Ra" and " general of the
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their building activities were mainly occupied in the
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KINGS OF KUSH.
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Barkal which he placed in the temple there to
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raged against them, tried hard to redeem their
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down the river to the " Hare-city," and besieged
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refused to yield. It was the time of the inundation,
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instincts by a pilgrimage to Ami* (Heliopolis), the
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chap, xv.] HIS SCULPTURES AT THE TEMPLE.
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to Thebes with great rejoicing and a heavy tribute
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Egypt being virtually in his hands, he had added to
Plate 23
To face p. 261.
Plate 24
To Jace p. 262.
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SACK OF THEBES.
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Thebes " in their due order. On one of the statues
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The remains of Mentu-em-hat's work have lono-
Plate 27
To face p. ?74>
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the son of a high priest and of a sistrum-player of
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the 26th dynasty it is probable that the brick wall
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the attempted fusion of Greek with Egyptian, and
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colossi of Rameses II. which are seated before the
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name somewhat indiscriminately on the works of
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slipped back to the dimensions she had at the time
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son Psamtek with him as co-regent, and soon after the
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tered Egypt, his army guided over the desert route
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turned a furious madman to wreak destruction on
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P"or three hundred years after the conquest of
Plate 28
To face p. 282.
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We have but isolated bits of evidence for the
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the studied Egyptian work of Ptolemaic times as the
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is the more complete and correct, therefore pre-
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There is still a fourth map, that of Lepsius,*
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the position of the pillars of the outer court.
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THE TEMPLE OF MUT,
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of an opening other than a door higher up in the
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Burton correctly shows that the parts of the pylon
Part V
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Lower part of a seated figure of 6^ [ Sa-Ra-
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AMAM 1 tSS» _CT\^ I I I L/VWMJ
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* Amen, as a personal name, occasionally occurs as an abbre-
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t Professor Erman has pronounced this formula to be un-
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THE TEMPLE OF MUT.
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The figure and hieroglyphs are very rudely
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Fragment of the base of a statuette, inscribed on
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* The sem-ipriest, whose distinguishing garment was a leopard
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Lower part of a group of two figures (husband
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a line of hieroglyphs giving the De hetep seten
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Lower part of a small seated figure of the
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the six bottom ones alone remaining. These give
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Statue of Sen-mut, architect and favourite minister
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(17) "of the gods daily, the chieftainess L.P.H., the steward
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On the left-hand side of the statue are fourteen
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3i2 THE TEMPLE OF MUT. [part v.
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magistrate, "not giving to one side [more favour
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Standing figure of the \ \ \ " High priest
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The figure is supported at the back by a slab of
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at Gebel Silsileh (see Griffith, £ P.S.B.A.,' 1889, p. 108) is the
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Kneeling figure of the IV I " second priest
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a short tunic, with the arms resting upon the thighs,
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On the upper surface of the pedestal, in front of
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* Pu-am-ra, whose statue is here dated in the reign of Hat-
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3i8 THE TEMPLE OF MUT. [part v.
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the wrists. Down the front of the legs are one
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* The Princess Ra-neferu was the eldest daughter of Thoth-
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Statuette of a [£^\ "superintendent of the
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the Louvre, dated in the twenty-eighth to thirty-fourth years of
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On the left side of the seat are likewise five
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Upon the pedestal or column supporting the
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titles of Min-nekht: the one, " the eyes of the king
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Group of two figures seated side by side on a low
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of the middle 18th dynasty. Upon the knees of the
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on those of the female v\ ft f^l
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Statue of the
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with the arms crossed over the knees, and in the
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the knees are eight horizontal lines of hieroglyphs
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elaborate cornice, and bearing an inscription on
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Upon the left side is a similar inscription to Mut,
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Statuette of the
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* The tomb of Amen-Ken, situated high up in the southern
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f The small hard whitedimestone statuette of the " Royal Son "
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before him a Hathor-headed shrine, upon the top
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" All that which appears upon the altar of the Lady
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the date of this statuette that the " Tutor of the royal child,
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33o THE TEMPLE OF MUT. [part V,
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Squatting- figure of a T ' ' 1 Ji 5 "super-
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the left
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(Thothmes IV.). Across the front of the legs is
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Asheru," and (3) to " the cycle of gods of Karnak,''"
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Upon the right side of the figure below the knee
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principal titles and name of Meryti, T^s^j
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Statuette of a ^)| "scribe of recruits," named
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THE TEMPLE OF MUT. [part v,
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I ^ ® " Mut, Mistress of Asher," and
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Around the base of the figure are two Dc letep
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Upon the pedestal supporting the figure at the
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pure things" for "the royal scribe and scribe of
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Statuette of a *==^ ^\ , c, , " Prince of Thebes,"
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334 THE TEMPLE OF MUT. [part v.
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Around the base run two inscriptions, both
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The first line gives the De hctep seten formula to
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THE TEMPLE
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r11^ Lljj Hor-men-ka. A chamberlain of Ay
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Lower part of a squatting figure of a ?, " royal
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THE
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* If Bak-en-Khonsu was made a steward by Seti I. after the
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24th Seti I.—made steward and second priest of Amen.
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when in the
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Rameses III., whose cartouche is engraved on the Benson statue.
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might attain the grand old age of one hundred and
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* This prayer is given in the inscription covering the lower
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3+8 the temple of mut. [part v.
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the same individuals as represented in No. XXII.
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Lower part of a seated figure of a woman (?). The
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the first are three vertical lines reading :
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" to the Ka of the favoured of the place of his heart,
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Fragment of the arm of a statue of Uapt, son ot
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35o THE TEMPLE OF MUT. [part v,
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Ra, king of the gods, general of the soldiers/"
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1. Squatting figure of the | Ir [ "fourth
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statue is broken across immediately below the knees.
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1q) q ^ Around the legs are in-
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"instructor of the priests," j^^Qt^^1"*!11 "scribe
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Upon the left side is (11. 1-3) the De hetep seten
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all [good] things"; that he was "great of monu-
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Reign of Taharqa. Height, 3 feet 8 inches.
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and surrounding walls, is in the Assassif not far
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of granite bearing his name was in the Grant collec-
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Nesptah (Priest of Amen) Pa-Khred-ne-Mut.
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Statuette of a
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before her a figure wearing the double crown
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Upon the right-hand side of the column or pedestal
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360 THE TEMPLE OF MUT. [part v.
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Statuette of a
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Upon the column supporting the back of the figure
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362 THE TEMPLE OF MUT. [part v.
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" Priest of Amen-en-apet, [and of the Gods] within
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" Mut-urt, Mistress of Asher."
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366 THE TEMPLE OF MUT. [part v.
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broken off, but the priest ± ^
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of hieroglyphs reading : (2 [
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Fragment of a statuette
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This inscription gives the \De hetep seten~] formula
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the Ka of the Osirian, the " divine father of Amen
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Inscribed Fragments of Stelae, etc.
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2. Limestone fragment bearing the inscription
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368 THE TEMPLE OF MUT. [part v.
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4. A similar fragment bearing the name of a
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priest of the temple of Amen in [Karnak ?] whose
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"[Good] god, lord of the
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" Son of the sun, Thoth-
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Inscriptions on the Sekhet Statues.
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—" The great god, Lord
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Variations of the inscriptions occur, the statues
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BLOCKS OF PIANKHY.
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the harim boat (Block II., ship 4) 2200;
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laden with 60,000, the harim boat with
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THE TEMPLE OF MUT. [part v.
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J^^^ "turtle-doves." The harim boat con-
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^ I ^® " ox-hide shields ;' (?). In the list of
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374 THE TEMPLE OF MUT. [part v.
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of the harim boat. It is perhaps some kind
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:^s=k (I " the vessel of Amen," and appears to have
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Herakleopolis," and — " the great
Inscriptions, plans, etc., of the Temple of Mut previously published or noted
Lists of coins found in the Temple, 1895-1897
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LIST OF COINS FOUND IN THE
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1. Head of Nero to right. nepq •
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S. /</««, but head to left. Date
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11. Idem, but head to right.
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13. Idem, but head to left.
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3. Head of Zeus to right, wearing
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6. Head of Alexandria to right,
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7. Idem, of slightly different type
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10. Head of Tiberius to right.
Index and Catalogue
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Including names and objects connected with the Temple of Mut, and names of
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? Time of, statue XI.
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Aahmes. Statue III., pp. 151, 297. Temple attributed to, pp. 29,
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Erasures of, p. 201.
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? Statue of, Xo. I., pp. 68, 132, 295.
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? Time of, statues XVII., XVIII.;
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District of, p. 8.
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? Time of, statue XIX.
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the temple oe mut.
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King of the gods.
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Lord of the thrones of the two
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Within the lemple.
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Mistress of Ankh-taui.
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Representations of,
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Fragment of pottery head, 2\
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Chief of the Rekhet.
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Lord of Thebes.
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Prayers to, on statues IIP, V., VP ,
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Prayer to, on statue XXI.
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Great Lord of Abydos.
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Prayer to (Sekhet-aat), on statue
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Lord of the Southern An.
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Fair of face.
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Head of, pi. VIII., fig. 2, p. 30.
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Lord of Heliopolis.
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Prayer to, on statue XXXI.
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Mistress of the two lands (Sekhet-
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Sekhet, statue of, p. 245.
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THE TEMPLE OF MUT.
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* Kambyses. Destruction of temple,
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Offices and Titles t (mentioned on the
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Regulator of the regulators of all
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Chief of the land to its extremity.
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High Priest of Amen. Statues V.,
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Priest of Amen. Statues V.,
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f The translations having been abbreviated, some names, offices, etc., given
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Superintendent of Priests of Mentu
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XXL, XXVI. (of Thebes to its
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Prince of Thebes. Statues XVIL,
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Scribe of the temple of the house
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Scribe of recruits. Statue XVI.
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Superintendent of the treasury.
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Superintendent of the frontier.
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Follower of the goddess Mut.
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One known to the king. Statue
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the temple of mut.
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Third and fourth Sa of Amen.
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Steward of the Usert-khau. Statue
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" Philistine," head of, pi. vii., pp. 76,
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Stones of shrine, pp. 72, 284
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Statue of (height, 5 feet), pi. XVI.,
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Wall, time of, p. 217.
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Time of, Statue xxi.
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? Restoration of Court B, p. 238.
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Of Rameses III., p. 236.
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? Tutankhamen. Temple of
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Fragments of two heads,
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t For pages of statues and stelae see under initial letters.
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THE TEMPLE OF MUT.
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p. 56. Height 3 feet 2 inches. 1 Plans of, facing pp. 27, 36.
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Pieces of five black-granite statues, 178, 185, 368.
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Fragment 1. Of Aah-mesu. History, pp. 207 f.
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,, 5. Of Antef. Un-nefer. On statue XXXI., p. 366.
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Five sculptured blocks of Piankhy.
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Time of. Chamber a, pp. 28, 264. Candlestick, \o\ inches.
Maßstab/Farbkeil
358 THE TEMPLE OF MUT. [part v.
at the back is inscribed with six vertical lines of
hieroglyphs, giving the name, titles etc. of [Mentu-
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26th dynasty. Saite. Height, 1 foot 9 inches.
Basalt. Found 1897, Plan no. 25.
at the back is inscribed with six vertical lines of
hieroglyphs, giving the name, titles etc. of [Mentu-
-em-hat (?-)]. The lines read :—
Left Side of t> i e n i Rirfit Side of
„ , Back of Column. °- ,
Column. Column.
i. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
I
□
□ ?
□
_a
^ mD ||
TT
~-+*-■ /Wv\AA
£2l
1 CL, ^ 01
n~1 I I I I
11= *C o ?!
III /ViAAAA f
ra
I
i?l s C t ?
1 Z7
'&GS%Z ko y-^vX- 9§SK*$
26th dynasty. Saite. Height, 1 foot 9 inches.
Basalt. Found 1897, Plan no. 25.