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CHAPTER IX
ADDENDA
THE STELAE AND CEILINGS
(PLATES LXVIII-LXX)
MEN today often find it convenient to write their names and pro- inscribed
fessions on their doors, and in simpler communities sometimes carve a doorways
homely prayer on their house-front. The ancient Egyptian did the same
to his earthly residence, and to a lavish extent in the case of his more
lasting abode in the necropolis. Each of the six stelae which once adorned
Puyemre's fagade represents an elaborately framed entrance, and each
was once filled with a few prayers to the gods and interminable praises of
himself. The name and career of the owner were made secure against any
doubt, and the ka of Puyemre was met by heavenly promises as he went
in and out of these spirit-doors, but the records are so summary and so
injured that they only merit an occasional comment.
Stela B and its flanking panels, like the greater part of A and C,
were chiseled away in antiquity.
Stela G.1 (Plate LXIX. Right Side. Ill a) ". . . all manner of stdaCand
food, [good and] pure, by which a god [lives] . . . Puyemre (ill b) ltSpand
. . . greatest of the great, . . . pronouncing verdicts (P)2 in Dep (the
town of Buto), one who represented (?) him who is in the palace, councilor
1 It will be remembered that the stelae are separated from one another by inscriptions in relief on
bordered panels, or, at the corners, by the triangular spaces afforded by the slope of the walls. The jambs
are numbered I, II, III, the columns, a, b, c, from the center. Parts of C and D were preserved because
the end of a solid brick wall was built against them for the purpose, perhaps, of supporting the architrave
and roof of the portico. Two fragments of C have been replaced with certainty; the elevation of the
third and uppermost one is not fixed in any way. * {Jj H
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ADDENDA
THE STELAE AND CEILINGS
(PLATES LXVIII-LXX)
MEN today often find it convenient to write their names and pro- inscribed
fessions on their doors, and in simpler communities sometimes carve a doorways
homely prayer on their house-front. The ancient Egyptian did the same
to his earthly residence, and to a lavish extent in the case of his more
lasting abode in the necropolis. Each of the six stelae which once adorned
Puyemre's fagade represents an elaborately framed entrance, and each
was once filled with a few prayers to the gods and interminable praises of
himself. The name and career of the owner were made secure against any
doubt, and the ka of Puyemre was met by heavenly promises as he went
in and out of these spirit-doors, but the records are so summary and so
injured that they only merit an occasional comment.
Stela B and its flanking panels, like the greater part of A and C,
were chiseled away in antiquity.
Stela G.1 (Plate LXIX. Right Side. Ill a) ". . . all manner of stdaCand
food, [good and] pure, by which a god [lives] . . . Puyemre (ill b) ltSpand
. . . greatest of the great, . . . pronouncing verdicts (P)2 in Dep (the
town of Buto), one who represented (?) him who is in the palace, councilor
1 It will be remembered that the stelae are separated from one another by inscriptions in relief on
bordered panels, or, at the corners, by the triangular spaces afforded by the slope of the walls. The jambs
are numbered I, II, III, the columns, a, b, c, from the center. Parts of C and D were preserved because
the end of a solid brick wall was built against them for the purpose, perhaps, of supporting the architrave
and roof of the portico. Two fragments of C have been replaced with certainty; the elevation of the
third and uppermost one is not fixed in any way. * {Jj H
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