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

■92 LIST OF DYNASTY XIII. AT KARNAK oh. v.

with Sebek-hotep VII. are connected with the most
distinguished families of the country, and form a sepa-
rate series of Thirteenth Dynasty sovereigns. As proof
of this may be cited the much-discussed but little
understood representation in the Hall of Ancestors.
As is well known, this relates to a selection of kings
who received a place in a chamber devoted to them
by Tehuti-mes III. The right side of the hall shows
the portraits and names of the Theban princes of the
'Thirteenth Dynasty, but only in a selection the mean-
ing of which is at once eyident.

Table of the Chamber at Karnak compared with the
Papyrus of Turin.

1. . . . ka.

2. Sut-en-Ra.

3. Saiikh-ab-Ra . . . No. 6. Sankh-ab-Ra.

4. Ra-Sekhem-khu-taui . „ 16. Sebek-hotep III.

5. Ra-Sekliem-tat-taui . . ,, 21. Sebek-hotep IV.

6. Kha-seshesh-Ra . . ,, 22. Nefer-hotep.

7. Kha-nefer-Ra „ 24. Sebek-hotep V.

8. Kha-ka-Ra „ 25. (destroyed.)

9. Kha-ankh-Ra (Sebek- „ 26. (destroyed, Sebek-hotep VI.)

hotep VI.)
10. Kha-hotep-Ra . . . „ 27. Sebek-hotep VII.

For it appears to contain only the names of those
kings whose importance is confirmed by contemporary
inscriptions, while the rest of the names mentioned
in the Turin Papyrus are passed over in silence.

Among these princes is Ka-meri-Ea, [ o u>.||

known to us from the wall of the rock-hewn tomb
•of T'efab the son of Klieti, in the mountain behind
Assiut. T'efab, according to his own account, was
the governor of the south country. Although the
hieroglyphs are much destroyed it seems certain that
the owner of the tomb had been commissioned by his
joyal master to execute certain works for the enlarge-