Heath, Dunbar I.; Corbaux, Fanny: The Exodus papyri (London, 1855)

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more pointedly ambiguous, that there are actually
tivo different arrangements of the statues in the
procession, one above the other; and in the first,
Meneptah's statue stands before his father's, as if
he were his predecessor! * The Lord Chamberlain,
who ordered the ceremonies, was apparently as
much puzzled how to arrange his procession with
due regard to precedence, as antiquarians have
been to understand his arrangements. The diffi-
culty seems to have arisen from the double break
in the lineal and chronological succession, caused
by Meneptah's lawful election as co-regent out of
Ms order by date of birth, and by his having died
before his father. The Master of Ceremonies
began by disposing the mummy statues of the il-
lustrious departed very appropriately, as he ima-
gined, in their funeral order, according to their
decease, in two rows behind Rameses III.; the
effigy of Seti II. being set apart as the head of the
front line by itself, to shew he is the head of the
lineal sequence from Rameses II. to Rameses III.,

thus:—

BACK EOW.

1. Bai-en-Ra Mai-Amen (Me-

neptah I.).

2. Ra-Seser-Ma Sotep-en-Ra

(Rameses II.).

Ra-Seser-Sliau Mai-Amen
(Seti III). . <.■'-■'■.
5. Ra-Seser-Ma Mai-Amen (Ra-
meses III.). .

FRONT EOW.

Ra-Seser-teru Mai-Amen
(Seti II.).
f Ra-Seser-Shau Mai-Amen
1 (Seti III.).
/ Ra - Seser - Ma Mai - Amen
I (Rameses III.).

* Charnpollion, Mon. pi. 213.