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

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dyn. xviii. THE KING'S NAMES AND TITLES 177

The distinguished men of the court did not fail to
offer to their new lord the utterance of their admiration
in poetic terms, to which the king replied :—

' God Amen is more enraptured with me than with all the kings
who have existed in this country since it was founded. I am his
son, who loves his Holiness, for that is the same as loving my royal
being itself.'—' All nations bow themselves before my spirit. The
fear of me is in the heart of the nine foreign nations.' — [God
Amen] 'he has poured strength into my hands to extend [the
boundaries of Egypt].'

The assumption, that this portion of the inscription
relates to the accession of the king as having just taken
place, is clearly supported by the fact that the origin
of the different throne-names of the king is explained
by a sort of paraphrase.

I have already remarked on the reference to the
god Tehuti in the name Tehuti-mes. The king testi-
fies this expressly in the words, ' My birth is to be
compared to that of the God of Hiser ' (a special name
of the temple of Tehuti in Hermopolis). Among the
Hew names which were given to him after his accession
Were Sam-ta or Sam-taui, ' Uniter of the two worlds.'
The reason of this is mentioned by the king himself:—

He (Amen) has united (sain) the countries (taui) of all the gods
in this my name, Tehuti-mes Sam-ta.

The following paraphrase of the injured inscription
may be imagined :—

.... in this my (name): Lord op the double crown : Aug-
menter op the Empire like the Sun in Heaven : He has given
tte the form of a golden sparrow-hawk ; He has given me his
Might and his strength ; I shone gloriously with his crowns in
this my name, (the third) (38) [golden sparrow-hawk, Mighty,

Strong, op splendid crowns........] my crowns. The

king's name was written for me alone. He has set up my picture
of a sparrow-hawk on the base, he has made me strong like a
strong bull. He has granted my coronation in the interior of
Thebes.

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