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236 LENGTH OF IIOR-EM-IIEB'S REIGN en. x.
That Hor-em-heb knew how to reward his followers,
is testified by the grave of his faithful servant, the priest
Neferhotep, in the necropolis of Thebes :•—■
In. the third year, under the reign of the king of Egypt, Hor-
em-heb, his Majesty showed himself comparable to the sun-god
Pa, in his own sepulchre, for the purpose of making an offering of
bread to his father Amen. As he came out from the Golden
Chamber, cries of joy sounded through the whole region, and the
shout rose up heavenward. Then was the holy father of Amen,
Neferhotep, summoned to receive the king's thousandfold gracious
rewards in all manner of presents, consisting of silver and gold,
stuffs, fine oils, bread and drinks, flesh and condiments. According
to the command of my (or his) lord Amen, the rewards were pre-
sented to me (or him) in the most exalted presence by the chief
singer of Amen, Hotep-ab.
Nef erhotep speaks thus : ' One rich (in —) makes acknowledg-
ment by presents. So is the god, tlie king of the gods, who acknow-
ledges him that acknowledges Him, and rewards him that works
for Him, and protects him that serves Him.'
What further can be known of Hor-em-heb is only
from the ruins of contemporaneous monuments, amongst
which is a very remarkable fragment in the British
collection which runs thus :—
In the 7th year of King Hor-em-heb, that was the day of the
■conveying of the people of Ai my father to the abodes of the dead.
The burgomaster of the city (that is, Thebes), Tehutimes, had as-
signed the burial-places, which are situated at the necropolis which
belongs to the territory of Pharaoh ; and he granted the tomb of
Amen to Ai my father for appropriation. It was, namely, Qu-an
.... my mother, his daughter by birth, and he left behind no
male child. All his burial-places would therefore have remained
deserted afterwards.
In the 21st year, on the first day of the month Paoni, they stood
before Amenhotep, (and I) spake to him : ' Grant, I pray thee, to
each one the burial-places of their fathers !' Then he gave me
the burial-places of Ai by a writing, and so I came into their full
possession.
However insignificant this formless piece of lime-
stone may be, still it is valuable on account of its his-
torical testimony, that Hor-em-heb lived to see the
twenty-first year of his reign.
That Hor-em-heb knew how to reward his followers,
is testified by the grave of his faithful servant, the priest
Neferhotep, in the necropolis of Thebes :•—■
In. the third year, under the reign of the king of Egypt, Hor-
em-heb, his Majesty showed himself comparable to the sun-god
Pa, in his own sepulchre, for the purpose of making an offering of
bread to his father Amen. As he came out from the Golden
Chamber, cries of joy sounded through the whole region, and the
shout rose up heavenward. Then was the holy father of Amen,
Neferhotep, summoned to receive the king's thousandfold gracious
rewards in all manner of presents, consisting of silver and gold,
stuffs, fine oils, bread and drinks, flesh and condiments. According
to the command of my (or his) lord Amen, the rewards were pre-
sented to me (or him) in the most exalted presence by the chief
singer of Amen, Hotep-ab.
Nef erhotep speaks thus : ' One rich (in —) makes acknowledg-
ment by presents. So is the god, tlie king of the gods, who acknow-
ledges him that acknowledges Him, and rewards him that works
for Him, and protects him that serves Him.'
What further can be known of Hor-em-heb is only
from the ruins of contemporaneous monuments, amongst
which is a very remarkable fragment in the British
collection which runs thus :—
In the 7th year of King Hor-em-heb, that was the day of the
■conveying of the people of Ai my father to the abodes of the dead.
The burgomaster of the city (that is, Thebes), Tehutimes, had as-
signed the burial-places, which are situated at the necropolis which
belongs to the territory of Pharaoh ; and he granted the tomb of
Amen to Ai my father for appropriation. It was, namely, Qu-an
.... my mother, his daughter by birth, and he left behind no
male child. All his burial-places would therefore have remained
deserted afterwards.
In the 21st year, on the first day of the month Paoni, they stood
before Amenhotep, (and I) spake to him : ' Grant, I pray thee, to
each one the burial-places of their fathers !' Then he gave me
the burial-places of Ai by a writing, and so I came into their full
possession.
However insignificant this formless piece of lime-
stone may be, still it is valuable on account of its his-
torical testimony, that Hor-em-heb lived to see the
twenty-first year of his reign.