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

am xxi. THE PRINCESS KA-EA-MAAT 373

general of the Ma, Na-ro-math, the son of Mehet-en-usekh, who [is
buried] in Abydos, for the estate of 100 arurse of land, for the 25
'Ben and women, for the gardens, and it amounts in silver money to
100 + x lbs., x ounces......

The statue of Na-ro-math in red granite is now in the
museum in Florence. A son of that general Mmrod
was raised to the Egyptian throne. He is that Sha-
shanq of whom, as the founder of the Twenty-second
dynasty, we have to speak in the next chapter.

At about the same time, by direction of this Sha-
shanq, the affair of the inheritance of the princess
-Ka-Ra-maat (for thus, and not Maat-ka-Ea or Ea-maat-ka,
°nght the name to be read) was regulated by express
r°yal command, in the name of the Theban circle of
gods. This lady was the offspring of the marriage of
-K^g Pasebkhanu I. with a Theban (Eamesside ?), and,
according to a frequent Egyptian custom, she had been
robbed of her patrimony situated in Upper Egypt. By
•her marriage with King Shashanq I. (for this Ka-Ea-maat
Was his wife), her position was completely changed.
•The ordinance, which relates to the agreement for
placing the princess in her full hereditary right, is
'^graved in large letters on the north wall of the third
Pylon on the south of the great temple of Amen at
■Karnak. The upper half of this wall is completely
destroyed; and in this case also the first lines of the
inscription, which contained the date and the name of
the king, are unfortunately wanting. We give the
'c°mplete literal translation of this stone document, so
important historically, and leave it to our readers
themselves to draw all the conclusions which follow
from it:—

Thus spake Amen-Ea, the king of the gods, the great god of the
beginning of all being, and Mut and Khonsu, and the great gods :

With regard to any object of any kind, which Ka-Ra-maat, the
daughter of the king of Upper Egypt, Meri-Amen Pasebkhanu,