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

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the maintenance of the offerings, as had been done
before in the case of Abydos.

The last descendants of the line of Shashanq had
meanwhile subsided into the position of petty kings in
the divided realm. Their names are

Shashanq III. cm. b.c. 766.

Pa-mai. cm. B.C. 733.
Shashanq IV. cm. b.c 700.

We owe our knowledge of these monarchs chiefly to
the Apis-stelse upon which are inscribed references to
their reigns and the locality of their kingdom. If they
no longer possessed Bubastis, Memphis still remained
in their hands. It was here that the sacred bull lived
in the temple of Ptah-Sekar-Osiris, and hence it was
that the solemn translation of the deceased Apis was
made on a car fitted with heavy wooden wheels to the
Serapeum in the desert between the Arab villages of
Abusir and Saqqarah.

Subjoined is a literal translation of the Apis memorial
stones brought to light in 1850, in so far as they relate
to the kings of the Twenty-Second Dynasty.

I. Memorial Stone of the Priest and Seer op the Apis-Bull,

Senebep, Son of Shed-nefer-tmu, and of his Son, the
Memphite Priest Hor-heb.

In the year [2], the month [Mekhir,] on the [1st] day, under the
reign of King Pa-mai, the friend of the Apis-god in the West.
This is the day on which this (deceased) god was carried to the
beautiful region of the West, and was laid at rest in the grave, at
rest with the great god, with Osiris, with Anpu, and with the
goddesses of the nether world, in the West. His introduction into
the temple of Ptah beside his father, the Memphite god Ptah, had
taken place in the year 29, in the month Paophi, in the time of King
Shashanq III.

II. Memorial Stone of the High-Priest of Memphis, Pet-Ise.

In the year 2, the month Mekhir, on the 1st day, under the reign
of King Pa-mai, the friend of the great god Apis in the West.—This