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264 PHARAOHS, FELLAHS, AND EXPLORERS.
know; but she was, at all events, wedded while yet quite
young to her eldest brother, Prince Thothmes, afterwards
Thothmes II. A recent discovery has for the first time re-
vealed the exact relationship which subsisted between this
prince and Ilatasu. A funerary chapel dedicated to the
memory of Prince Uatmes, a deceased son of Thothmes I.,
as well as to some other members of that king's family, was
discovered in 1SS7 by M. Grebaut, a little to the northward
of the Ramesseum at Thebes. ('") Many interesting histor-
ical stela3 and other monuments were found in the course of
the excavation of this chapel, the most important being a
life-sized sitting statue of a certain Queen Mautnefer, hitherto
unknown to histauy. This Mautnefer proves, according to
the inscription on her statue, to have been a wife of Thoth-
mes I., and mother of Thothmes II., by whom her effigy was
erected in the chapel of Uatmes. It would thus appear that
Thothmes I. had two legitimate wives—namely, Ahmes JSTe-
fertari, the royally descended mother of Ilatasu, and Maut-
nefer, a lady evidently of inferior lineage, the mother of the
elder Prince Thothmes. As for the younger Thothmes, af-
terwards Thothmes III., he Avas of quite humble descent
maternally, being a son of Thothmes I. by a Lady As-t, whose
name was discovered ten years ago upon the inscribed wind-
ing-sheet of Thothmes III., now preserved in the Museum
of Ghizeh. (,0) This lady is therein entitled Suten Maut
(Royal Mother), but not also Suten llem-t (Royal Wife), as
would have been the case with an actual queen; thus in-
dicating that she was merely a lady of the royal hareem.
The elucidation of this piece of family genealogy is very valu-
able, inasmuch as it shows Ilatasu to have been but half-
sister to her two brothers, while it at the same time empha-
sizes the inferior rank of the elder prince, and the vastly
inferior rank of the younger. Ilatasu, in short, was not
only "Heiress-Princess" in right of her maternal descent,
but she was also the only surviving offspring of Queen
Ahmes Nefertari; and this, in any case, would have fur-
nished an important reason for her marriage with Thothmes
know; but she was, at all events, wedded while yet quite
young to her eldest brother, Prince Thothmes, afterwards
Thothmes II. A recent discovery has for the first time re-
vealed the exact relationship which subsisted between this
prince and Ilatasu. A funerary chapel dedicated to the
memory of Prince Uatmes, a deceased son of Thothmes I.,
as well as to some other members of that king's family, was
discovered in 1SS7 by M. Grebaut, a little to the northward
of the Ramesseum at Thebes. ('") Many interesting histor-
ical stela3 and other monuments were found in the course of
the excavation of this chapel, the most important being a
life-sized sitting statue of a certain Queen Mautnefer, hitherto
unknown to histauy. This Mautnefer proves, according to
the inscription on her statue, to have been a wife of Thoth-
mes I., and mother of Thothmes II., by whom her effigy was
erected in the chapel of Uatmes. It would thus appear that
Thothmes I. had two legitimate wives—namely, Ahmes JSTe-
fertari, the royally descended mother of Ilatasu, and Maut-
nefer, a lady evidently of inferior lineage, the mother of the
elder Prince Thothmes. As for the younger Thothmes, af-
terwards Thothmes III., he Avas of quite humble descent
maternally, being a son of Thothmes I. by a Lady As-t, whose
name was discovered ten years ago upon the inscribed wind-
ing-sheet of Thothmes III., now preserved in the Museum
of Ghizeh. (,0) This lady is therein entitled Suten Maut
(Royal Mother), but not also Suten llem-t (Royal Wife), as
would have been the case with an actual queen; thus in-
dicating that she was merely a lady of the royal hareem.
The elucidation of this piece of family genealogy is very valu-
able, inasmuch as it shows Ilatasu to have been but half-
sister to her two brothers, while it at the same time empha-
sizes the inferior rank of the elder prince, and the vastly
inferior rank of the younger. Ilatasu, in short, was not
only "Heiress-Princess" in right of her maternal descent,
but she was also the only surviving offspring of Queen
Ahmes Nefertari; and this, in any case, would have fur-
nished an important reason for her marriage with Thothmes