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

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322 THE ANTI-KING SIPTAH ch. xiii.

Among the remaining adherents of the anti-king, no
insignificant part was played by his governor of the
southern lands, Seti, whose memory has been per-
petuated by an inscription at Abu Simbel. In that re-
presentation, this official exhibits himself as a zealous
worshipper of the Theban Amen, and there is appended
an inscription of four lines, giving the following ex-
planation :—

(1) Worship offered to Amen, that he may grant life, prosperity,
and health, to the person of the king's envoy into all lands, the com-
panion (2) of the lord of the land, of the friend of Horus (i.e. the
Mng) in his house, the first commander of the war-chariots of his
Majesty, (3) who understood his purpose, when the king came, to
exalt (him) the king's son of Cush, (4) Seti, upon his throne (or,
the throne of his father ?) in the first year of the lord of the land,
Ha-messu Siptah.

On the summit of a group of rocks on the island of
Sehel, near Phike, there remains the following inscription
of the same Seti, annexed to the name of his king :—

In the year 3, Pakhons, day 21. Honour to thy name, O king !
May it attest the acknowledgments of the person of the commander
of the chariots, and the king's sons of Cush, and the governor of the
southern lands, Seti!

On the last visit I paid to Thebes to the grave of
* the great queen and lady of the land, the princess of
Upper and Lower Egypt, Ta-user,' the names of her
husband Siptah were still to be seen at its entrance,
while in the interior, on the piece which has been laid
on to cover the names of the queen, the cartouche of
Setnekht meets the eye in a re-engraving. Setnekht
took possession of his wife's sepulchre, without in a
single case replacing the feminine signs in the inscrip-
tions by the corresponding masculine forms. His rival
having been driven out, Setnekht could deal with the
tomb at his pleasure.

Nor was it only against native claimants of the
 
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