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The former proprietor of the villa at Tell el
Maskhutah, Mr. Paponot, had the kindness to
send me paper-casts of two small monuments
which were found at the same time as those
w hich have been brought to Ismailiah. They
were lying beneath the great monolith.
Both are fragments of statuettes in
black granite. One of them consists
only of two lines of text on the back, of
o which we print one here ; the second
| being only well known formulas.
The text reads thus :........whose
surname is Nefer ab Ba neb pehti (the
most valiant Nefer ab Ba), the son of
Thothua, the issue of Sit Hap speaks
thus.....
This fragment is particularly interest-
yI ing because it gives the name of a king
LE!^ which had not yet been found at Pithom.
Nefer ab Ma is the first cartouche of
P ! Psammetik II., the third kins: of the
3?* twenty-sixth dynasty, who reigned six
S^j years between 594 and 589 b.c., and
who was chiefly engaged in wars against
a%\ the Ethiopians.
<~ It was usual at that time for priests
and officers to adopt a surname consist-
ing of the name of the king with an
adjective. Thus the son of Thothua,
whose real name we do not know, was called the
valiant Nefer ab Ba, an epithet of which the
king himself was fond, as he once added it to his
second cartouche, making it Psemteh neb pehti?
Leps., Denkm., iii., 275.
the valiant Psammetik. We know also another
man whose surname was the valiant Nefer ab
Pa ; he was called Uza hor sunt, and a cup
dedicated by him was found at Damanhour.2
The style of this inscription is exactly that
of the two fragments of Plate VII., which I had
at first attributed to the early Ptolemies. It
gives them a date. It shows that they belong
to the twenty-sixth dynasty.
Of the second statuette of Mr. Papo-
not, also in black granite, two fragments
remain ; a line of the back and part of
^C3^q the inscription of the apron. We print
q „ here the line of the back. It reads
__DO
o. o. Q.A thus :
........the living god ofSuccoth, the
^ Auhau on the horizon of Turn of Succoth,
^ 1 the fosterer of Hor Sam Taui........
%Q . We have again here the title of Auhau
which we have found on other statues.
As to the temple it is called the horizon
of Turn, a metaphor which is very natural,
as he is a solar god. The title of
Khenemt, fosterer, or nurse when it is
a feminine, is frequent with gods con-
Pii= sidered as children; thus we find it
ill also with Khonsu, the child.3 From
the monuments of the twenty-sixth
dynasty we should say that the triad of
Pithom consisted of Turn, Hathor, and Hor
Sam Taui.
3 Descr. de l'Eg., Ant. v. pi. 74.
3 Brugsch., Diet. Hier., p. 1102.
London ; Printed by Gilbert and Rivington (Limited), St. John's Square, Clerkenwell Road.
Maskhutah, Mr. Paponot, had the kindness to
send me paper-casts of two small monuments
which were found at the same time as those
w hich have been brought to Ismailiah. They
were lying beneath the great monolith.
Both are fragments of statuettes in
black granite. One of them consists
only of two lines of text on the back, of
o which we print one here ; the second
| being only well known formulas.
The text reads thus :........whose
surname is Nefer ab Ba neb pehti (the
most valiant Nefer ab Ba), the son of
Thothua, the issue of Sit Hap speaks
thus.....
This fragment is particularly interest-
yI ing because it gives the name of a king
LE!^ which had not yet been found at Pithom.
Nefer ab Ma is the first cartouche of
P ! Psammetik II., the third kins: of the
3?* twenty-sixth dynasty, who reigned six
S^j years between 594 and 589 b.c., and
who was chiefly engaged in wars against
a%\ the Ethiopians.
<~ It was usual at that time for priests
and officers to adopt a surname consist-
ing of the name of the king with an
adjective. Thus the son of Thothua,
whose real name we do not know, was called the
valiant Nefer ab Ba, an epithet of which the
king himself was fond, as he once added it to his
second cartouche, making it Psemteh neb pehti?
Leps., Denkm., iii., 275.
the valiant Psammetik. We know also another
man whose surname was the valiant Nefer ab
Pa ; he was called Uza hor sunt, and a cup
dedicated by him was found at Damanhour.2
The style of this inscription is exactly that
of the two fragments of Plate VII., which I had
at first attributed to the early Ptolemies. It
gives them a date. It shows that they belong
to the twenty-sixth dynasty.
Of the second statuette of Mr. Papo-
not, also in black granite, two fragments
remain ; a line of the back and part of
^C3^q the inscription of the apron. We print
q „ here the line of the back. It reads
__DO
o. o. Q.A thus :
........the living god ofSuccoth, the
^ Auhau on the horizon of Turn of Succoth,
^ 1 the fosterer of Hor Sam Taui........
%Q . We have again here the title of Auhau
which we have found on other statues.
As to the temple it is called the horizon
of Turn, a metaphor which is very natural,
as he is a solar god. The title of
Khenemt, fosterer, or nurse when it is
a feminine, is frequent with gods con-
Pii= sidered as children; thus we find it
ill also with Khonsu, the child.3 From
the monuments of the twenty-sixth
dynasty we should say that the triad of
Pithom consisted of Turn, Hathor, and Hor
Sam Taui.
3 Descr. de l'Eg., Ant. v. pi. 74.
3 Brugsch., Diet. Hier., p. 1102.
London ; Printed by Gilbert and Rivington (Limited), St. John's Square, Clerkenwell Road.