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THE LOCATION OF GAME LANDS
sibilities do not seem to have included agrarian matters very definitely,
was overseer of the double granary of Amon and of the "fields of divine
offerings," and as he claims that his house was supplied with all necessi-
ties from the king's table, he might with justice assume a personal in-
terest in any royal demesnes in the North. When, then, he is shown
'proceeding to inspect his marsh-lands ith.t) and his herds which are in
North Egypt," this may not of necessity involve a private estate there.
Or, if it does in his case, the like is not to be assumed for everyone who
depicts himself as a sportsman. Still, there is some ground for trusting
this indication of private ownership. Nakht, as a lay-priest, does not
seem to have any business in North Egypt except as a landowner there.
Nor are there obvious official reasons why Amunejeh should depict him-
self "beholding the unlimited products of the Delta in cattle, fowl, fish,
lotus," and should pray for still more boundless supplies; but perhaps it
was on account of immoderate ambition that his tomb was appropriated
by Mery the high-priest.
In the case of Puyemre, second priest and superintendent of the cattle
and lands of Amon, the walls of whose chamber are occupied, save for a
few inconspicuous reservations, by pictorial records of his official duties,
these sufficiently explain his visit to this estate in the far North, where,
if he enjoyed himself in hunting the hippopotamus and helping personally
to lay the papyrus thickets under tribute, the relaxation was not the less
enjoyable for falling under the head of an official inspection. We do not
need to take the record too seriously. His family may not have made the
journey with him, since few will believe that he was so bold as to hazard
his success with the fishing-spear by inviting his mother and daughter to a
share of the scanty deck-space of the skiff. The emendation "in North
Egypt" in the descriptive heading is made almost certain and given a most
welcome definiteness by the further information that the vineyard lay in
the "Road of Horus" (Wady Tumilat). The wines of the eastern Delta,
and especially of the sea littoral, met with very decided approval in
Roman days, and if we have our doubts whether a modern epicure would
endorse this verdict, such a climate and soil at least seem vastly more
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sibilities do not seem to have included agrarian matters very definitely,
was overseer of the double granary of Amon and of the "fields of divine
offerings," and as he claims that his house was supplied with all necessi-
ties from the king's table, he might with justice assume a personal in-
terest in any royal demesnes in the North. When, then, he is shown
'proceeding to inspect his marsh-lands ith.t) and his herds which are in
North Egypt," this may not of necessity involve a private estate there.
Or, if it does in his case, the like is not to be assumed for everyone who
depicts himself as a sportsman. Still, there is some ground for trusting
this indication of private ownership. Nakht, as a lay-priest, does not
seem to have any business in North Egypt except as a landowner there.
Nor are there obvious official reasons why Amunejeh should depict him-
self "beholding the unlimited products of the Delta in cattle, fowl, fish,
lotus," and should pray for still more boundless supplies; but perhaps it
was on account of immoderate ambition that his tomb was appropriated
by Mery the high-priest.
In the case of Puyemre, second priest and superintendent of the cattle
and lands of Amon, the walls of whose chamber are occupied, save for a
few inconspicuous reservations, by pictorial records of his official duties,
these sufficiently explain his visit to this estate in the far North, where,
if he enjoyed himself in hunting the hippopotamus and helping personally
to lay the papyrus thickets under tribute, the relaxation was not the less
enjoyable for falling under the head of an official inspection. We do not
need to take the record too seriously. His family may not have made the
journey with him, since few will believe that he was so bold as to hazard
his success with the fishing-spear by inviting his mother and daughter to a
share of the scanty deck-space of the skiff. The emendation "in North
Egypt" in the descriptive heading is made almost certain and given a most
welcome definiteness by the further information that the vineyard lay in
the "Road of Horus" (Wady Tumilat). The wines of the eastern Delta,
and especially of the sea littoral, met with very decided approval in
Roman days, and if we have our doubts whether a modern epicure would
endorse this verdict, such a climate and soil at least seem vastly more
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