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

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420 QUEEN AMENIRITIS oh. xvi-

Piankhi, and hence he belongs to a considerably earlier
generation.

At length Psamthek I.—the great-grandson of
Tefnekht, the opponent of Piankhi—comes to the fore-
front of the history, as the deliverer of his country
from the condition of the Dodecarchy—the name
■which the Greeks chose to describe that period. His
marriage with the Ethiopian heiress, Shep-en-apet—-a
daughter of King Piankhi, and his beautiful queen
Ameniritis—restored peace to the distracted relations
of the royal succession. Eegarded in this light, the
founder of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty appears practically
as the reconciler of all rival claims. The daughter of
the renowned queen of Cush and Patoris, in giving her
hand to the petty king of Sais, brought Patoris as a
wedding-gift to her husband; and thus Egypt was
again united into a great kingdom.

The splendid alabaster statue of Ameniritis, which
was found at Karnak and now adorns the rooms of the'
Egyptian Museum in the Gizeh Palace, near Cairo, is a
most important memorial of that age.

Upon it are inscribed these words :—

This is an offering for the Theban Amen-Ra, of Apet, to the god
Mentu-Ra, the lord of Thebes.

May he grant everything that is good and pure, by which the
divine (nature) lives, all that the heaven bestows and the earth
brings forth, to the princess, the most pleasant, the most gracious,
the kindest and most amiable queen of Upper and Lower Egypt,
the sister of the king [Sabaco] the ever-living, the daughter of the
deceased king [Kashta], the wife of the divine one—AmeniritiS-
May she live !

Upon the back she is represented as saying among

other things:—

I was the wife of the divine one, a benefactress to her city
(Thebes), a bounteous giver for her land. I gave food to the hungry,
drink to the thirsty, clothes to the naked.
 
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