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256 INSCRIPTION AT REDESIEH ch. xi.-
keeping up of the temple and the worship of its deities,
Osiris, Isis, and Horus, besides the three chief divinities-
of the country, Amen and Horemkhu of Thebes, and
Ptah of Memphis. The inhabitants were highly pleased
with this work, for
King Seti did this for his memorial for his father Amen-Ea and
his company of gods, namely, he built anew for them a house of
God, in the interior of which the divinities dwell in full content-
ment. He had the well bored for them. Such a thing was never
done before by any king, except him, the king. Thus did King
Seti do a good work, the beneficent dispenser of water, who pro-
longs life to his people ; he is for every one a father and a mother.
They speak from mouth to mouth, 'Amen grant him (a long exist-
ence), increase to him an everlasting duration. Ye gods of the
well! assure to him your length of life, since he has made for us
the road to travel upon, and has opened what lay shut up before-
our face. Now can we travel up with ease, and reach the goal and
remain living. The difficult road lies open there before us, and the-
way has become good. Now the gold can be carried up, as the king
and lord has seen. All the living generations, and those which
shall be hereafter, will pray for an eternal remembrance for him.
May he celebrate the thirty years' jubilee-feasts like Tmu ; may he-
flourish like Horus of Apollinopolis; because he has founded a
memorial in the lands of the gods, because he has bored for water
in the mountains.'
In the execution of the work Ani, the ' King's son of
Cush,' as well as commander-in-chief of the Mazai, was
present as the directing architect. This fact is attested
by rock-inscriptions, accompanied by pictorial repre-
sentations, as, for example, that of the warlike foreign
goddess Antha, who rides on horseback wielding a
battle-axe and shield, like Bellona.
Whether, after all, the mines yielded rich produce,
and the gold-washers delivered to the ' reckoner of
silver and gold of the land of the country of Upper and
Lower Egypt, Hi-shera,' the results of their laborious
employment in satisfactory quantity, we do not know,
for upon this point the monuments are silent.
As Seti's reign runs parallel with that of his son
Eamses, we will suppose, with the ancients, that his soul
keeping up of the temple and the worship of its deities,
Osiris, Isis, and Horus, besides the three chief divinities-
of the country, Amen and Horemkhu of Thebes, and
Ptah of Memphis. The inhabitants were highly pleased
with this work, for
King Seti did this for his memorial for his father Amen-Ea and
his company of gods, namely, he built anew for them a house of
God, in the interior of which the divinities dwell in full content-
ment. He had the well bored for them. Such a thing was never
done before by any king, except him, the king. Thus did King
Seti do a good work, the beneficent dispenser of water, who pro-
longs life to his people ; he is for every one a father and a mother.
They speak from mouth to mouth, 'Amen grant him (a long exist-
ence), increase to him an everlasting duration. Ye gods of the
well! assure to him your length of life, since he has made for us
the road to travel upon, and has opened what lay shut up before-
our face. Now can we travel up with ease, and reach the goal and
remain living. The difficult road lies open there before us, and the-
way has become good. Now the gold can be carried up, as the king
and lord has seen. All the living generations, and those which
shall be hereafter, will pray for an eternal remembrance for him.
May he celebrate the thirty years' jubilee-feasts like Tmu ; may he-
flourish like Horus of Apollinopolis; because he has founded a
memorial in the lands of the gods, because he has bored for water
in the mountains.'
In the execution of the work Ani, the ' King's son of
Cush,' as well as commander-in-chief of the Mazai, was
present as the directing architect. This fact is attested
by rock-inscriptions, accompanied by pictorial repre-
sentations, as, for example, that of the warlike foreign
goddess Antha, who rides on horseback wielding a
battle-axe and shield, like Bellona.
Whether, after all, the mines yielded rich produce,
and the gold-washers delivered to the ' reckoner of
silver and gold of the land of the country of Upper and
Lower Egypt, Hi-shera,' the results of their laborious
employment in satisfactory quantity, we do not know,
for upon this point the monuments are silent.
As Seti's reign runs parallel with that of his son
Eamses, we will suppose, with the ancients, that his soul