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THE TRIBUTE OF GREATER EGYPT TO AMON
Libya long, and appears to be caught up at the back, as it does not fall in a
straight edge. The chief peculiarity of the dress, however, is the blue
and white sash, which passes across the chest in opposite directions, and
is then wound round the neck and tied in a peculiar series of knots, end-
ing in a red tassel. A pocket-like loop at the belt is probably the attach-
ment of the peculiar Libyan pouch. These marks serve to identify this
chief as Libyan, though we have to go as far back as the fifth dynasty
to find his exact prototype.1
THE EXPENDED TRIBUTE
Thedistribu- \ye have seen the imperial gift of incense and precious materials
tionofthegift
weighed out to the Treasury. These have now to be reissued; the former
to the temples for use there, the latter, in part at least, to the crafts-
men (Plate XL). This is the subject of the lower panel of the west wall
between the south and middle chapels. The standing figure of Puyemre
has been erased and restored, as the clumsy baton and the lost sandals
show, to say nothing of the incised graffito suspiciously close to it, giv-
ing the name of Simut, "overseer of the necropolis on the west of
Thebes."2 Animation is conferred on the stiff figures by the information
that Puyemre is "[making offerings (hnkt?) to] Amon-re in the treasury
^orchardt, Sahure, II, Pis. i, 5-8. Compare for the attachment of the pouch Blackmail, Meir, I,
p. 3i. The pouch in front and the tail behind are lacking in our representation, but the fillet is an addition,
As is well known, the dress which is characteristic of the Libyans in the XVIIIth dyn. is quite different from
this, as is also their mode of wearing the hair. But the long garment cast round the shoulders and tied there
with a knot, often conceals the old barbaric dress (Wilkinson, M. and C, I, Fig. 76, 4a, Ad; Naville, Recueil,
XXII, p. 69; Maspero, Struggle of the Nations, pp. 4i4, 473). In Sahure, II, PI. 2, the long dress is also shown
and Borchardt thinks he can distinguish a southern from a northern type of Libyan by difference of com-
plexion. It is difficult to believe that the figure in this scene has not been derived from the reliefs of Sahure,
but the immediate model may have been in Mentuhotep's temple (Naville, Eleventh Dyn. Temple, III, PI.
XIII). Tomb i43 (Burchardt-Meyer, Darstellungen der Fremdvblker, No. 724) seems to have taken the
long Libyan robe from the same source. The artist of Tomb 86, perhaps misled by the inclusion here of the
Libyan in the lands of Syria, has adorned Syrian men and boys with the typical Libyan neck ornaments
(Miiller, Researches, II, Pis. i4, 16).
2 One Simut, a necropolis quarryman attached to the temple, is noted by Maspero, Recueil, II, p. 196,
apparently of the XlXth dyn. The office mentioned in the graffito is not a regular one, and might well be
attained by such a man. His superintendence of the work of restoration in the tomb would account for the
manner of its execution as well as for the grammatical mistake noted on p. 42.
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Libya long, and appears to be caught up at the back, as it does not fall in a
straight edge. The chief peculiarity of the dress, however, is the blue
and white sash, which passes across the chest in opposite directions, and
is then wound round the neck and tied in a peculiar series of knots, end-
ing in a red tassel. A pocket-like loop at the belt is probably the attach-
ment of the peculiar Libyan pouch. These marks serve to identify this
chief as Libyan, though we have to go as far back as the fifth dynasty
to find his exact prototype.1
THE EXPENDED TRIBUTE
Thedistribu- \ye have seen the imperial gift of incense and precious materials
tionofthegift
weighed out to the Treasury. These have now to be reissued; the former
to the temples for use there, the latter, in part at least, to the crafts-
men (Plate XL). This is the subject of the lower panel of the west wall
between the south and middle chapels. The standing figure of Puyemre
has been erased and restored, as the clumsy baton and the lost sandals
show, to say nothing of the incised graffito suspiciously close to it, giv-
ing the name of Simut, "overseer of the necropolis on the west of
Thebes."2 Animation is conferred on the stiff figures by the information
that Puyemre is "[making offerings (hnkt?) to] Amon-re in the treasury
^orchardt, Sahure, II, Pis. i, 5-8. Compare for the attachment of the pouch Blackmail, Meir, I,
p. 3i. The pouch in front and the tail behind are lacking in our representation, but the fillet is an addition,
As is well known, the dress which is characteristic of the Libyans in the XVIIIth dyn. is quite different from
this, as is also their mode of wearing the hair. But the long garment cast round the shoulders and tied there
with a knot, often conceals the old barbaric dress (Wilkinson, M. and C, I, Fig. 76, 4a, Ad; Naville, Recueil,
XXII, p. 69; Maspero, Struggle of the Nations, pp. 4i4, 473). In Sahure, II, PI. 2, the long dress is also shown
and Borchardt thinks he can distinguish a southern from a northern type of Libyan by difference of com-
plexion. It is difficult to believe that the figure in this scene has not been derived from the reliefs of Sahure,
but the immediate model may have been in Mentuhotep's temple (Naville, Eleventh Dyn. Temple, III, PI.
XIII). Tomb i43 (Burchardt-Meyer, Darstellungen der Fremdvblker, No. 724) seems to have taken the
long Libyan robe from the same source. The artist of Tomb 86, perhaps misled by the inclusion here of the
Libyan in the lands of Syria, has adorned Syrian men and boys with the typical Libyan neck ornaments
(Miiller, Researches, II, Pis. i4, 16).
2 One Simut, a necropolis quarryman attached to the temple, is noted by Maspero, Recueil, II, p. 196,
apparently of the XlXth dyn. The office mentioned in the graffito is not a regular one, and might well be
attained by such a man. His superintendence of the work of restoration in the tomb would account for the
manner of its execution as well as for the grammatical mistake noted on p. 42.
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