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

MN..XH. USERTSEN II. 67

this queen's name appears again in the following
pedigree :-■—

Ameni = Hun(t) Queen Nefert = Amen-eni-hat II.
I (wife) |

Fuau = Princess Hat-shepset

Daughters Sons

Net'es-ankh; Hat-shepset; Nebant Nub-em-ua

(and obliterated names)

After a reign of twenty-nine years the king asso-
ciated his son with himself. He bore the names of

KhA-KIIEPER-Ba o * I j USEBTSEN II.

His history is found only in an isolated passage
here and there upon the monuments. We may con-
clude with certainty from the scattered notices, that
under the rule of this second Usertsen the empire was
at the height of its prosperity. Some lines which are
engraved on a rock at the town of Aswan, and which
date from the common reign of the two kings, father
and son, bear witness that the sovereign's attention
was constantly directed to the southern borderland
(Nubia).

The first kings of the Twelfth Dynasty appear in
their order in the inscription which adorns the lower
border of the hall of sacrifice over Khnum-hotep's rock-
tomb at Beni-Hasan. In order to give a just repre-
sentation of the public life of those days, a literal
translation of the inscription is appended :—

(1) The hereditary lord and blood relation of the king who loves
his god, the governor (2) of the district of the East, Khnum-hotep, son
of Nehara, who has overcome (death), (3) the son of the daughter of
an hereditary lord, the lady Beket, who has overcome death, (4) the
same has executed this for his memorial.

His first virtue consisted in this : that he was a benefactor (5) to
his town, so that he won for his name lasting remembrance for long

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