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APPENDIX E
official title of the whole temple. If the lower terrace really had a sepa-
rate designation it must have had a cult place, and this hypothetical
shrine on its north side would provide it. The late revival of a connec-
tion of Nofretari with Deir el Bahri, however, is surprising, unless an
ancient epithet of hers was taken over. The sanctuary on the upper
terrace, being named Akh-akhut, is excluded. It is noticeable that the
name Heri-hir-amun is of a different type from those of other mortuary
temples and is less fitting, but this may only betray its earlier date.
Khay-akhut. The order of the signs in our list should be reversed.
The shrine is mentioned by Thoti (Breasted, A. R., II, § 375) after Jeser-
josru, as here. Now a name attached to the middle terrace must refer to
the shrine either of Anubis or of Hathor, and it is strange that it does not
appear in the inscriptions in either case, though two of the doors of the
latter have names, Chnemet-neferu and Sart-jefau. Yet in Jeser-akhut
Thothmes seems to have imitated, not only the shrine of the queen, but
also its name. On a bead which perhaps belonged to Senmut, builder of
Deir el Bahri, Amon is styled "lord of Jeser-josru, dwelling in Khay-
akhut" (Sethe, Urkunden, IV, p. 38i), rather implying that his position
there was secondary.
Henket-ankh is identified by the stamped bricks found on the site
during its excavation in igo5 (Weigall, Annales, VII, p. 121; VIII, p.
286; Sethe, Urkunden, IV, p. 885; Spiegelberg, Recueil, XIX, p. 86).
We know from an inscription at Karnak that the cult of Amon was in
full operation there in the 23rd year of the king (Breasted, A.R., II, § 552).
A son of Puyemre also belonged to its numerous priesthood (PI. LXIV).
Chnemet-ankh. One leaf of the double door of this temple, naming
Thothmes I as its occupant and Thothmes II either as participator or
(more probably) as donor, has just been acquired by the Metropolitan
Museum. As the name of Thothmes II has been substituted for that of
Hatshepsut on the jambs of her mortuary chamber at Deir el Bahri, it is
not unlikely that the defaced stela there was similarly treated, and the
chapel actually assigned to that king. It may have been this chamber
that was denominated Men-Chnemet. This wooden door fits the entrance
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official title of the whole temple. If the lower terrace really had a sepa-
rate designation it must have had a cult place, and this hypothetical
shrine on its north side would provide it. The late revival of a connec-
tion of Nofretari with Deir el Bahri, however, is surprising, unless an
ancient epithet of hers was taken over. The sanctuary on the upper
terrace, being named Akh-akhut, is excluded. It is noticeable that the
name Heri-hir-amun is of a different type from those of other mortuary
temples and is less fitting, but this may only betray its earlier date.
Khay-akhut. The order of the signs in our list should be reversed.
The shrine is mentioned by Thoti (Breasted, A. R., II, § 375) after Jeser-
josru, as here. Now a name attached to the middle terrace must refer to
the shrine either of Anubis or of Hathor, and it is strange that it does not
appear in the inscriptions in either case, though two of the doors of the
latter have names, Chnemet-neferu and Sart-jefau. Yet in Jeser-akhut
Thothmes seems to have imitated, not only the shrine of the queen, but
also its name. On a bead which perhaps belonged to Senmut, builder of
Deir el Bahri, Amon is styled "lord of Jeser-josru, dwelling in Khay-
akhut" (Sethe, Urkunden, IV, p. 38i), rather implying that his position
there was secondary.
Henket-ankh is identified by the stamped bricks found on the site
during its excavation in igo5 (Weigall, Annales, VII, p. 121; VIII, p.
286; Sethe, Urkunden, IV, p. 885; Spiegelberg, Recueil, XIX, p. 86).
We know from an inscription at Karnak that the cult of Amon was in
full operation there in the 23rd year of the king (Breasted, A.R., II, § 552).
A son of Puyemre also belonged to its numerous priesthood (PI. LXIV).
Chnemet-ankh. One leaf of the double door of this temple, naming
Thothmes I as its occupant and Thothmes II either as participator or
(more probably) as donor, has just been acquired by the Metropolitan
Museum. As the name of Thothmes II has been substituted for that of
Hatshepsut on the jambs of her mortuary chamber at Deir el Bahri, it is
not unlikely that the defaced stela there was similarly treated, and the
chapel actually assigned to that king. It may have been this chamber
that was denominated Men-Chnemet. This wooden door fits the entrance
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