Budge, Ernest A. Wallis: Some account of the collection of Egyptian antiquities in the possession of Lady Meux: of Theobalds Park, Waltham Cross (London, 1896)

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THE MUMMY AND COFFIN OF NES-AMSU.

and the other of the Moon); the ram of Mendes
^£^1, wearing horns, disk and plumes [ty , standing
upon a support '' f ; and the emblems of the East
and the West, 4 and ^.

Arranged in perpendicular lines over the left
breast of the coffin is an inscription which informs
us that the deceased Nes-Amsu, | ^y M5, held

the dignity of —"—'\p seutcheb, and also that he
was the second priest of the god Amsu. From the
other texts on the coffin we learn that he was also a
priest of Khonsu. He was the son of Pa-senetchem-ab,
the grandson of Tche-hra, and the great-grandson of
Ara; all these gentlemen had held the same rank and
had performed the same duties in the temple of Amsu.
His mother's name was Ta-ta-khensu-i, and she was a
sistrum-bearer in the temple of Amsu. The inscrip-
tion is an address to the goddess Mer-sekhet, a
form of Hathor(?), and reads: "Hail [to thee], O
mighty one in heaven, daughter of Ra, turner back of
the Fiend, mistress of wrath, [lady of] Manu, regent (?)
in the Mountain of the Underworld, lady (?) of life,
Mer-Sekhet, mistress of sceptres and sistra, lady of
the menat* president of the Great Double House,