Naville, Edouard: The store-city of Pithom and the route of the Exodus (London, 1888)

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APPENDIX II.

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
which have been brought to Ismailiah. Thej
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

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which we print one here ; the second
being only well known formulas.

The text reads thus :........whose

surname is Nefer ah Ba neb pehti (the
^37 most valiant Nefer ab Ba), the son of
Thothua, the issue of Sit Hap speaks
thus.....

This fragment is particularly interest-
i it gives the name of a king
not yet been found at Pithom.
' Ra is the first cartouche of
II., the third king of the
:th dynasty, who reigned six
veen 594 and 589 b.c., and
hiefly engaged in wars against
iians.

isual at that time for priests
|p to adopt a surname consist-
3 name of the king with an
Thus the son of Thothua,
we do not know, was called the
Ba, an epithet of which the
fond, as he once added it to his
!, making it Psemtek neb pehti,1

the valiant Psammetik. We know also another
man whose surname was the valiant Nefer ab
Ra ; he was called TJza hot 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-
H not, also in black granite, two fragments
s=> remain ; a line of the back and part of
^M^@ the inscription of the apron. We print
q here the line of the back. It reads
o_ c, ojl thus :

........the living god of Succoth, the

,0, Auhau on the horizon of Turn of Succoth,

^ 1 the fosterer of Hor Sam Taui........

NQ . We have a°;ain here the title of Auhau
which we have found on other statues.
^=^5 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-
Pffl sidered as children; thus we find it
111 also with Khonsu, the child.3 Prom
the monuments of the twenty-sixth
dynasty we should say that the triad of
Pithom consisted of Turn, Hathor, and Hor
Sam Taui.

Descr. de PEg., Ant. v. pi. 74.
Brugsch., Diet. Hicr., p. 1102.

., Deiikm., iii., 275.

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