Brugsch, Heinrich: Egypt under the pharaohs: a history derived entirely from the monuments (London, 1891)

52 THE ANTEFS oh. hi.

adorned with the regal circlet. The cover of the chest
was richly gilt, and the hieroglyphs on the middle-
band bore the cartouche of Antef. In the year 1854,
I had the good fortune to discover the coffin of a
second Antef, distinguished from the first by the title
of ' the Great;' it is now in the Louvre. The re-
maining traces of this king's tomb were discovered by
Mariette at Drah-abu-'l-Neggah. In the interior of a
brick pyramid was found a simple chamber with a
memorial stone dated in the fiftieth year of the reign
of King Antef 'ao (i.e. ' the Great'), the inscription and
paintings on which have been fully published by Dr.
Birch. The lower part of the king's image is well
preserved. At his feet stand his four favourite dogs.

Of the Mentu-hotep who bore the royal name Neb-
taui-Ea, ' Son of the lord of the country,' a memorial is
preserved on the black rocks of the island of Konosso,
above the First Cataract. A bas-relief chiselled in the
hard stone exhibits him as the conqueror of thirteen
foreign nations, and as the devoted servant of Amsu of
Coptos. This town, situated near Hammamat, was on
the edge of the desert, and was the rendez-vous of
traders to and from the Eed Sea, who traced their
names on the rocks, to which they usually added a
pious inscription.

Mentu-hotep also appears immortalised on the cliff
in the valley of rocks, together with his mother Ama.
He had, so the inscription tells, sunk a deep well,
ten cubits in diameter, in the desert, in order to pro-
vide water for the refreshment of all pilgrims with
their beasts of burthen, and for all the men who were
commanded by the king to quarry stone in this hot
valley. Another inscription of the second year of his
reign says that a functionary, by name Amenemhat,
received orders to transport the king's sarcophagus