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

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230 KING HOR-EM-HEB oh. x.

ground for the supposition that the following kings,
Hor-em-heb, BamsesI., and his son Setil.,"were contem-
poraries, and consequently each possessed the throne
for a comparatively short period. This supposition is
strengthened by the probability that the sister-in-law of
King Khu-n-aten, Net'em-mut, was no other than the
princess who was afterwards the wife of King
Hor-em-heb.

Ser-kheperp/-Ba Mer-Amen Hor-em-heb ;

the king ii0rits op manetho.

Who was to be king ? That was the great question
after the funeral of the master of the horse. , There was
in Middle Egypt a man whom, in all probability,
Amen-hotep in. had known and honoured with his con-
fidence. His right to the throne of Pharaoh had but a
slight foundation; it rested only on his marriage with
the sister of Queen Neferit-Thi, the high lady Net'em-
mut, who has been already mentioned. But another
helper stood by: this was the god Horus, under whose
protection the future heir to the throne lived in quiet
retirement at the town of Ha-suten, ' the house of the'
king.'

This place stood on the right side of the river, and
formed the capital of the eighteenth nome of Upper
Egypt. The monuments give it a second name,
Ha-Bennu, 'the Phoenix city;' it is the Hipponon of
the Greek travellers in Egypt, the Alabastronpolis-
(alabaster-city) of the geographer Ptolemy. It stood,
probably in the neighbourhood of the city of Khu-aten,,
behind which He rich alabaster quarries, if it be not
Khu-aten itself.

The future heir to the throne bore the name of
Hor-em-heb. As to how he obtained his royal dignity,,
we will allow his own monument in Turin, which is at
 
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