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

dot. xiii. THE ROCK TOMBS AT SIUT 93

ment and restoration of the temple of Anpu, the
tutelary deity of the city just named. There are also
indications which lead us to infer warlike events in
Upper Egypt. The tombs at Assiut (Lycopolis) all
point to a common origin—the times of the Twelfth
and Thirteenth Dynasties. The most valuable histo-
rically is that of T'efaa-hep, commonly called the
' Stabl Antar,' who was high priest of Anpu and
filled a number of other offices at the royal court.

The interior wall, facing the entrance of the sepul-
chral hall, contains a long and fairly well preserved
inscription. After the deceased has set forth his
various titles and offices, and has extolled the way in
which he fulfilled his duties towards gods and men,
he calls upon the future priestly guardian of his
grave to care for him (the deceased), as he in his
lifetime had cared for the deities in Siut—Lycopolis.
He also takes this occasion for fixing the kind and
number of the sacrifices, mentioning the feast-days on
which they are to be offered, and gives evidence, for
the first time in an Egyptian inscription, that the
inhabitants of the Nile valley were accustomed to
dedicate the first-fruits of their harvest to the deity.
The feasts named in this inscription took place at
the end and at the beginning of the year. The in-
scriptions which adorn the walls of the rock-chambers
of these tombs, as well as those of El-Kab (the ancient
Eileithyiapolis), all point to their belonging to the
Thirteenth Dynasty. Quite apart from identity in
style and from the presence of the cartouche of

Sebek-hotep IV., [ ° fPJ^B, 1 which was found in

one of the tombs of this place, whose former tenant
bore the name of Sebek-nekht, D J 'Ht, the proper