Naville, Edouard; Griffith, Francis Ll. [Editor]: The Mound of the Jew and the City of Onias: Belbeis, Samanood, Abusir, Tukh el Karmus, 1887 (London, 1890)

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He was " divine father, her seshta of Heliopolis ?,
governor," &c. At a shekh's tomb on the east side
of Khasus is a block with three lines of the standard
titles of Eameses III., and another also of three
lines. The first line consists of the names of the
same king, the remainder is given in the plate 19.
A stone in one of the huts that we uncovered with
much labour proved to be the tail and part of the
hind quarters of a colossal sphinx in black granite;
the fragment of inscription on the base was
merely ^ &c.

21 and 22 are copies made by Dr. J. A. S. Grant
of inscriptions at El 'Arab, between Khasus and
Tell Hisn. The first is on the figure of a bull
(Mnevis) in limestone, with erased cartouches and
the name of an official Bai. The copy can be
corrected by the original, which was removed some
years ago to Bulaq. The other relates to the
dead Mnevis and the King Apries.

On the north side of the enclosure of Ibrahim
Pasha's palace is a small well. The doorstep
is a square block of sandstone sculptured round the
edges in —a most disappointing fragment of the
base of a statue, since it gave me much trouble to
examine.

PL xxii. A. At HI Merj, in a hut, was a lime-
stone slab from the tomb of a high priest of
Heliopolis, named Pathenef, in which he was re-
presented making offerings to his ancestors of
twelve generations.

In the upper half Pathenef is represented
"performing the ceremony of offerings for his
fathers and mothers." In front are five of his
ancestors seated. He is called " their son making
their names to live, and loving them, the true
relative of the king, loved by him, the hereditary
prince, the chancellor, the favourite friend, the

superintendent of the altar in the great temple of
the northern On (Heliopolis), the prophet of
. . . the priest, the Si meref, the servant of
Keith, the superintendent of the prophets in the
nomes, prophet of Hor Khent Khat (the god of
Athribis), of Horus, lord of Shen, and of the gods
of Ta [uhat ?] . . . Pathenef."

In the second row, where there are seventy-three
ancestors, his titles are " the hereditary prince,
the prophet of Anhur-Shu, son of Ea (god of the
Sebennytus)."

His ancestors were:—

(1) The hereditary prince, the chancellor, the
favourite friend, the veneration of (?) the two
lands, the chief prophet of Hor Khent Khat, lord
of Athribis : of Amen ra, lord of the Northern
Diospolis: the chief prophet of Anhur-Shu, son of
Ea, lord of Sebennytus : of Isit the Elder, the
divine mother,mistress of Hebit (Iseum): of Horus,
lord of Shen (?) : the superintendent of the altars
in the great temple, the Si meref Khel, deceased,
born of the sistrum-bearer of Ea Turn Septit,
daughter of the regulator of the altar in the great
temple, the prophet of Shu and Tefunt, the king's
relative Pedu . . .

(2) Son of the superintendent of the altars in
the great temple, the Si meref . . . the priest of
Amen ra in Heliopolis, the true and beloved
relative of the king Pedu . . . born of the sistrum-
bearer of Ea Turn . . . Isit.

(3) Son of the superintendent of the altars
in the great temple, the king's relative Khel,
born of the sistrum-bearer . . . daughter of
Khel.

(4) Son of the superintendent, &c, prophet

of Amen ra, in Heliopolis, the Si mer ef . . .

the true and loving relative of the king, the

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