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rarv erasures
PERSONALIA
Contempo- 0f ^ne Nineteenth Dynasty, had not the operators been of the lowest
grade of workmen. What moved them to replace the figures was probably
not piety to the memory of Puyemre, but the idea that this erasure also
was due in some way to the heretical movement.1
Of the five cases, the three which are most pronounced are connected
with the reception of foreign tribute. The fourth is evidenced by the
finding of two slabs from a restored figure, which probably belong to the
figure facing the southern peoples (Plate XLII).2 The fifth clear case is
the figure in Plate VIII, 2 (belonging to Plate XX) where Puyemre—
ironically enough—is appealing to posterity to keep his tomb inviolate.
It may have been felt by those that had laid themselves open to this curse
that they could not allow the figure of the denouncer to remain. The
figure has been replaced on the original lines, but, like the other restora-
tions, it is a little shorter and to a different scale of bodily proportions.
The expunged figures in Plates XXX, XXXV, where Puyemre
receives the tribute of the northern peoples and dedicates it to the service
of Amon on behalf of the king, have received similar treatment. In the
original design he presided, standing with one hand resting on the long
staff, the other holding the hrp baton. Innocent as this presentation
seems, it was altered at the king's command by the introduction in front
of the figure of a military standard held up by a wa$ symbol before the
peoples. The device consists of the cartouche of the king placed between
the ka arms, and is surmounted in the one case by the simple sky-sign,
in the other by its more elaborate form containing the uraeus-twined
sun-disk.3 The insertion of the standard occasioned, though it cannot be
said to have necessitated, the complete excision of the figure of Puyemre.
When this was re-introduced in much later times the restorer gave it
the pose that best fitted the narrow space, a respectful attitude with one
hand resting on the opposite shoulder, the other pendent (P),4 or again
1 Ramesside restorations are indicated in the Plates by an asterisk.
2 A decisive sign of restoration is the omission of sandals. See p. 56.
3 Notice that this is the precise equivalent of the ^ J=^- (^___J which stands for the king as a divine
power in the hotpedens formula (Sethe, Urkunden, IV, p. 1225; Davies, EI Amarna, II, PI. IX). Used
as a standard in Wilkinson, M. and C, I, p. ig5.
4 Plate XXX. So in Griffith, Siut, PL IV, before a royal cartouche.
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PERSONALIA
Contempo- 0f ^ne Nineteenth Dynasty, had not the operators been of the lowest
grade of workmen. What moved them to replace the figures was probably
not piety to the memory of Puyemre, but the idea that this erasure also
was due in some way to the heretical movement.1
Of the five cases, the three which are most pronounced are connected
with the reception of foreign tribute. The fourth is evidenced by the
finding of two slabs from a restored figure, which probably belong to the
figure facing the southern peoples (Plate XLII).2 The fifth clear case is
the figure in Plate VIII, 2 (belonging to Plate XX) where Puyemre—
ironically enough—is appealing to posterity to keep his tomb inviolate.
It may have been felt by those that had laid themselves open to this curse
that they could not allow the figure of the denouncer to remain. The
figure has been replaced on the original lines, but, like the other restora-
tions, it is a little shorter and to a different scale of bodily proportions.
The expunged figures in Plates XXX, XXXV, where Puyemre
receives the tribute of the northern peoples and dedicates it to the service
of Amon on behalf of the king, have received similar treatment. In the
original design he presided, standing with one hand resting on the long
staff, the other holding the hrp baton. Innocent as this presentation
seems, it was altered at the king's command by the introduction in front
of the figure of a military standard held up by a wa$ symbol before the
peoples. The device consists of the cartouche of the king placed between
the ka arms, and is surmounted in the one case by the simple sky-sign,
in the other by its more elaborate form containing the uraeus-twined
sun-disk.3 The insertion of the standard occasioned, though it cannot be
said to have necessitated, the complete excision of the figure of Puyemre.
When this was re-introduced in much later times the restorer gave it
the pose that best fitted the narrow space, a respectful attitude with one
hand resting on the opposite shoulder, the other pendent (P),4 or again
1 Ramesside restorations are indicated in the Plates by an asterisk.
2 A decisive sign of restoration is the omission of sandals. See p. 56.
3 Notice that this is the precise equivalent of the ^ J=^- (^___J which stands for the king as a divine
power in the hotpedens formula (Sethe, Urkunden, IV, p. 1225; Davies, EI Amarna, II, PI. IX). Used
as a standard in Wilkinson, M. and C, I, p. ig5.
4 Plate XXX. So in Griffith, Siut, PL IV, before a royal cartouche.
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