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dtn. xx. RAMSES VII.—vni.—IX. 349
named Meri, who is also called ' the superintendent of
the temple,' to recommend his officials to the grace of
Pharaoh. The statue of the royal lord, which had been
set up, plays here an important part. His Majesty
appears to have been much pleased with the services
of his faithful servant, since he presented Penni with
two silver vessels filled with precious ointments.
Penni was certainly an artist, as is shown by the
statue of Pharaoh, and by the sculptures in his own
rock-tomb, but especially by his office, mentioned in the
inscriptions, of ' master of the quarry,' besides that of a
' superintendent of the temple of Horus, the lord of the
town of Ama.' Several members of his family appear
to have all held during their lifetime various offices in
the Horus-city of Ama. Among them is a chief priest
of Isis whose -son was the Amenemape named in the
inscription; also two treasurers of the king in Ama, a
captain of the city of Ama, a priest and a scribe, while
the women are mostly named as female singers of
Amen or of Horus the lord of the town of Ama.
Passing over in silence the two insignificant suc-
cessors and brothers of this king, who perhaps reigned
simultaneously as Pharaohs, and of whom the monu-
ments have merely handed down the names,
Ba-messu VII. and Ba-messu VJJLi.,
we come to the last Eamessides of the Twentieth
Dynasty,
Nefer-ea-Ra-sotep-en-Ba. Ba-messu EX. cir. b.c. 1133.
It is not his deeds, about which the monuments tell us
next to nothing, nor his buildings, which are extremely
few in number, but his relations to the priests of Amen
at Thebes at this time that call for attention. It is a
very evident fact that from the time of Eamses HI. the
named Meri, who is also called ' the superintendent of
the temple,' to recommend his officials to the grace of
Pharaoh. The statue of the royal lord, which had been
set up, plays here an important part. His Majesty
appears to have been much pleased with the services
of his faithful servant, since he presented Penni with
two silver vessels filled with precious ointments.
Penni was certainly an artist, as is shown by the
statue of Pharaoh, and by the sculptures in his own
rock-tomb, but especially by his office, mentioned in the
inscriptions, of ' master of the quarry,' besides that of a
' superintendent of the temple of Horus, the lord of the
town of Ama.' Several members of his family appear
to have all held during their lifetime various offices in
the Horus-city of Ama. Among them is a chief priest
of Isis whose -son was the Amenemape named in the
inscription; also two treasurers of the king in Ama, a
captain of the city of Ama, a priest and a scribe, while
the women are mostly named as female singers of
Amen or of Horus the lord of the town of Ama.
Passing over in silence the two insignificant suc-
cessors and brothers of this king, who perhaps reigned
simultaneously as Pharaohs, and of whom the monu-
ments have merely handed down the names,
Ba-messu VII. and Ba-messu VJJLi.,
we come to the last Eamessides of the Twentieth
Dynasty,
Nefer-ea-Ra-sotep-en-Ba. Ba-messu EX. cir. b.c. 1133.
It is not his deeds, about which the monuments tell us
next to nothing, nor his buildings, which are extremely
few in number, but his relations to the priests of Amen
at Thebes at this time that call for attention. It is a
very evident fact that from the time of Eamses HI. the