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)

STELE OF NEKAU.

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5. The disk of the sun being lifted up out of the
waters of the celestial ocean; on each side are a soul
and two apes standing in adoration. To the right
stands the deceased pouring out a libation before a
table of offerings, and to the left are seated the
deceased and his wife.

From the text below we learn that the deceased
Nekau was the son of Nes-Amsu, and the grandson
of T'et-hra, and that all three men held high priestly
positions in the town of Apu or Panopolis. In
lines 18 ff. Nekau is said to be the son of Nes-Amsu,
the son of T'et-hra, the son of Nes-Amsu, the son of

T'et-hra, the son of Heru....., the son of Taf-mut-

qebt, the son of T'et-Heru-af-anx, the son of T'et-hra,
the son of the lady Nes-urt, who was herself the
daughter of the vfeb of Panopolis. Thus we know
the ancestors from whom Nekau traced his descent
for eight generations. Nekau's paternal grandmother
was Nes-urt, and he himself is described in his stele
as a "royal relative"; he was the uteb of Panopolis,
a prophet of Horus and Isis (?), and he served with
the priests monthly in the fourth grade. His father
held the like offices, but he seems to have been in
addition a "prophet of Osiris and of the two Horus
gods, and a prophet of the ceremonials of Pharaoh,
may he live for ever"! The greater part of the