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182 INSCRIPTIONS IN TEMPLE AT KARNAK oh. yin-
By the side of her father is the small image of
his daughter, the hitherto unknown ' king's daughter
and king's wife, the worshipper of her father,' Mut-
nefert. A second statue of the same king bears his
name on a half-destroyed inscription, which may easily
be completed in the following manner:—
This statue was re-erected in good condition in the year [22 of
the reign of Telmti-mes III.]
A similar notice may also be read on the statue-
of Amen-hotep I., the grandfather of Tehuti-mes ILL.
The care shown hj this king to honour in every way
the memory of his relations presents a strong 'contrast
to Hatshepsu, with whom self-honour and self-glorifi-
cation seem to have been the only object. The Hall
of Ancestors at Karnak was founded by Tehuti-mes ILL,,
in reference to which runs the following inscription :—
Long live King Tehuti-mes III. ! He has built this his monu-
ment for his memorial to his father Amen-Ra of Thebes in Apet.
To them (sic in the inscription) this great festive hall was built for
the duration of an endless number of years, all new, of splendid
clear stone of the mountain of An. It shines brilliantly like the
vault of heaven : it is well executed as a work for eternity. The
king had given the order that the names of his ancestors should be
placed upon it, to make their remembrance bloom afresh, that all
their likenesses (?) should be cut out of [ . . . . ], and that great,
sacrifices to them should be re-established anew, more than [had
been done in the times of earlier kings].
In another hall of the temple at Karnak may be
read :—
[Because no one] has provided new stone to cover the building
of my father Tehuti-mes I., and because no one has finished the
building of my father Tehuti-mes I., and the building of the fore-
fathers of the kings of Upper and Lower Egypt, opposite his
building, may my name be preserved everlastingly on the building
which has been executed for my father Amen to all eternity !
A reproach is here meant against Hatshepsu,
because she had so entirely neglected the monuments.
By the side of her father is the small image of
his daughter, the hitherto unknown ' king's daughter
and king's wife, the worshipper of her father,' Mut-
nefert. A second statue of the same king bears his
name on a half-destroyed inscription, which may easily
be completed in the following manner:—
This statue was re-erected in good condition in the year [22 of
the reign of Telmti-mes III.]
A similar notice may also be read on the statue-
of Amen-hotep I., the grandfather of Tehuti-mes ILL.
The care shown hj this king to honour in every way
the memory of his relations presents a strong 'contrast
to Hatshepsu, with whom self-honour and self-glorifi-
cation seem to have been the only object. The Hall
of Ancestors at Karnak was founded by Tehuti-mes ILL,,
in reference to which runs the following inscription :—
Long live King Tehuti-mes III. ! He has built this his monu-
ment for his memorial to his father Amen-Ra of Thebes in Apet.
To them (sic in the inscription) this great festive hall was built for
the duration of an endless number of years, all new, of splendid
clear stone of the mountain of An. It shines brilliantly like the
vault of heaven : it is well executed as a work for eternity. The
king had given the order that the names of his ancestors should be
placed upon it, to make their remembrance bloom afresh, that all
their likenesses (?) should be cut out of [ . . . . ], and that great,
sacrifices to them should be re-established anew, more than [had
been done in the times of earlier kings].
In another hall of the temple at Karnak may be
read :—
[Because no one] has provided new stone to cover the building
of my father Tehuti-mes I., and because no one has finished the
building of my father Tehuti-mes I., and the building of the fore-
fathers of the kings of Upper and Lower Egypt, opposite his
building, may my name be preserved everlastingly on the building
which has been executed for my father Amen to all eternity !
A reproach is here meant against Hatshepsu,
because she had so entirely neglected the monuments.