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

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missive to the Great King of Persia, and to enter his
.service.

There was, in particular, a Suten-rekh (i.e. ' King's-
grandson'), named Ut'a-Hor-resenet, a son of Pef-tot-
Mt (the high-priest of the goddess Nit) and his wife
Tmu-iritis, probably a daughter of King Apries (Uah-
ab-Ea). To this nobleman the command of the royal
fleet had been entrusted under the kings Amasis and
Psamthek lU. When Cambyses conquered Egypt,
Ut'a-Hor-resenet passed at once into the service of
the Persian king. On the famous shrine-bearing statue
•of this eminent nobleman, in the Vatican at Borne,
he relates quite unaffectedly the history of his life,
from which we have derived the foregoing account
of his family.

(I.) When the great lord of all nations, Kambathet (Cambyses),
came to Egypt,—at that time the people of all lands were with
him,—he ruled this land as king in its whole extent. They settled
in it, inasmuch as he was a great king of Egypt and the great lord
of all lands. He committed to me the office of a president of the
physicians, and kept me beside him as friend and temple-master.
His official name was assigned to him as ' King Mastu-Ra.' I made
known to him the greatness of the city of Sais, as the city of Nit,
the great mother, who gave birth to the Sun-god Ra—he was the first-
born, no (other) being was yet born :—moreover (I informed him)
.also of the high consequence of the habitation of Nit—it is such
as a heaven—in all its quarters :—moreover also of the high import-
ance of the chambers of Nit, which are the abodes of Nit and
of all the gods in them ; as well as the high consequence of the
temple Hakheb, in which the great king and lord of the heaven
resides ;—moreover also of the high importance of the south-
chamber, of the north-chamber, of the chamber of the morning-sun
Ra, and of the chamber of the evening-sun Tmu. These are the
mysterious abodes of all the gods.

(II.) And I made my complaint to King Kambathet concerning
all the foreigners, who had taken up their quarters in the temple of
Nit, that they might be driven out, that so the temple of Nit
might be established in its full splendour, as was the case formerly-
Then the king gave command to drive out all foreigners, who had
taken up their quarters in the temple of Nit, and to pull down all