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among his great court officials. (8) I had to look great in the
grand hall (of the king), and anointed myself with hair oil. (9) A
garland rested on my neck, just as the king does for him whom he
will reward.

Again (10) a gracious reward fell to my share from his son,
Amen-iiotep II.—may he live long !—He committed to me the
statue of his father, King (11) Tehuti-mes III.—may he live for
ever ! — and his (own) statue of indestructible duration, in the
temple of Osiris ; moreover, a possession of the temple, consisting
of (12) arable land and garden land, each marked out, and remain-
ing according to its position for (the service of) the image of the
king, (13) Amen-hotep II., the friend of Osiris of Abydos, the prince
of the West.

Four lines further on lie concludes with the

words :—

(17) Call upon those, who live there (IS) on the earth, on the
priests and singers, on the assistants and holy fathers of this
temple, and on the artists of the sanctuary, even as they are ready :
■—(19) Let each who approaches this stone read what is upon
it. Sing praise and bear love to Osiris, the king of Eternity.
(20) Add also the invocation : ' May the north wind be pleasant
for the nose of the high-priest of Osiris, Neb-aiu the conqueror by
help of Osiris.'

A stone record at Denderah tells us that

King Tehuti-mes III. has caused this building to be erected in
memory of his mother, the goddess Hathor, the Lady of An (Den-
derah), the Eye of the Sun, the heavenly queen of the gods. The
ground-plan was found in the city of An, in archaic drawing on a
leather roll of the time of the Hor-shesu : it was found in the in-
terior of a brick wall on the south side of the temple in the reign of
King Pepi.

In spite of the brevity of these words it appears to
be certain that first Pepi, and after him Tehuti-mes,
undertook to re-build the ancient temple of the goddess.
In the time of the Ptolemies it had ap;ain fallen into
decay, and those princes re-built it from the very
foundations. Inscriptions which have been found in
the tombs at Abusir and Saqqarah place it beyond
doubt that Tehuti-mes III. erected a temple to the god