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carried thither from Goshen after the fall of
paganism.
This naos is no doubt of the Ptolemaic epoch.
It is of black granite, pointed at the top, four feet
high, two feet seven inches broad, and two feet
from back to front. Turned ignominiously on
its back, it has seen hard service as a water-trough,
so that the stone has been worn away from the
front to the depth of an inch, carrying with it all
the dedicatory inscription. The angles and edges
are also worn away, and the inscription on the left1
side has been destroyed by natural scaling. How-
ever, the inscriptions of the right side and back
are complete excepting at the edges; in all there
remain seventy-four lines, besides some scraps
visible on the left side. The left hand ends of 1.
4—6 in PI. xxv. are terminated by a vertical line,
probably the last trace of a compartment which
contained an incised figure of some deity, relic
or building. The hieroglyphics throughout are
small and rather ill-defined.
The shrine was closed by double doors, fitting
in a frame (see PI. xxiii.). The upper sockets (a)
are f in. in diameter, the lower ones (b) are f in.
There is a bolt-hole at the bottom (c), but not
at the top.
The text engraved on the outside enumerated
the sacred spots in At nebus, " the place of the
Sycamore ? " a name by which the priests desig-
nated the city of Qesem, assigning them at the
same time their position in mythical history during
the successive reigns of the gods Ra, or Turn,
Shu, and Seb.
1 The terms "left" and "right" here and in the plates
are to be taken in the sense of ''proper left" and "proper
right," as if the spectator were looking out from the shrine;
but I admit that the position would be exceedingly un-
comfortable.
USri. Ji
It commences on the right side, PI. xxiv. 1.
" The majesty of Shu was as a good 1 king of heaven,
earth, and the underworld, of water and winds, of the
primeval waters, of hills and of the sea, [giving] all regulations
upon the throne of his father Ea Harmakhis as triumphant.
Now behold the majesty of Shu was in [his] palace in
Memphis : his majesty said to the great cycle of nine gods
which followed him," Come now, let us proceed to the Eastern2
[horizon], to my palace in At jSTebes,3 and see our father
Ba-Harmakhis in the Eastern horizon : let us pass 1 [thither]
by the canal (11), let us employ ourselves ? in ordering our
palace in At ISTebes." Then they did according to all that his
majesty decreed : The majesty of Shu [proceeded] to his
palace in the House of the Aart.4 Then were built all the
apartments? of Hat Nebes5 [like] heaven upon its four sup-
ports : then was built the house of Sepd anew for (?) the majesty
of Shu, it is the temple that he loves; [account of] all its
arrangements as to the points to which it faced, whether
towards the south the north the west or the east: the
temples were erected [in] all the [pla]ces where they had
been: eight chapels were made on the left, eight on the
right, eight in the court? of the Eastern Horizon :6 This
[temple belongeth] to Shu in his name of Sepd lord of the
East: the face of each of these chapels was towards its
fellow: [they were] the apartments ? [of the] great cycle of
nine gods, and of the lesser cycle, of the gods who attend on Ea
and the gods who attend on Shu : moreover there were built
enclosures for Shu in [Hat Nobe]s 1 surrounding his temple:
(now) the face of this temple was towards the East, the
sun's rising ; and those (deities) who dwelt [in the places of]
the temples of each nome dwelt in it, in case 1 the nome
should fall into confusion, let one explain 17 this arrange
ment : [the enclosure of Hat ?] Nebes reached to Hat Nebes
on its north, and its face was towards the South: the
temples were on [its] sides and their faces [were] towards
the East: a pool was on its South side, a pool on its North
side : a great storehouse 1 of [. . . . ] was in front of this
temple reaching to Per Art. Now Per Art was of the time of 1
Ea: the majesty of Shu placed his staff upon the At [ . . .
and it became] a sacred locality in At ISTebes, its southern
face was towards the Per Art : gods, goddesses, men, and all
2 Or the horizon of Bekhat. Bekhat was the mountain
from which the sun rose. At Nebes was particularly the
city of the rising sun. The solar connection is shown also
by the fragment of a shrine in the Louvre, on which arc
figured the decanal deities. [Louvre, D. 37.]
3 The place of the Sycamore 1 sanctuary of the city of
Goshen.
4 Cf. Per Art in 1. 16 &c, a new name of a locality in
Goshen.
s The house of the Sycamore 1
"Probably the sanctuary.
7 Very doubtf ul.
carried thither from Goshen after the fall of
paganism.
This naos is no doubt of the Ptolemaic epoch.
It is of black granite, pointed at the top, four feet
high, two feet seven inches broad, and two feet
from back to front. Turned ignominiously on
its back, it has seen hard service as a water-trough,
so that the stone has been worn away from the
front to the depth of an inch, carrying with it all
the dedicatory inscription. The angles and edges
are also worn away, and the inscription on the left1
side has been destroyed by natural scaling. How-
ever, the inscriptions of the right side and back
are complete excepting at the edges; in all there
remain seventy-four lines, besides some scraps
visible on the left side. The left hand ends of 1.
4—6 in PI. xxv. are terminated by a vertical line,
probably the last trace of a compartment which
contained an incised figure of some deity, relic
or building. The hieroglyphics throughout are
small and rather ill-defined.
The shrine was closed by double doors, fitting
in a frame (see PI. xxiii.). The upper sockets (a)
are f in. in diameter, the lower ones (b) are f in.
There is a bolt-hole at the bottom (c), but not
at the top.
The text engraved on the outside enumerated
the sacred spots in At nebus, " the place of the
Sycamore ? " a name by which the priests desig-
nated the city of Qesem, assigning them at the
same time their position in mythical history during
the successive reigns of the gods Ra, or Turn,
Shu, and Seb.
1 The terms "left" and "right" here and in the plates
are to be taken in the sense of ''proper left" and "proper
right," as if the spectator were looking out from the shrine;
but I admit that the position would be exceedingly un-
comfortable.
USri. Ji
It commences on the right side, PI. xxiv. 1.
" The majesty of Shu was as a good 1 king of heaven,
earth, and the underworld, of water and winds, of the
primeval waters, of hills and of the sea, [giving] all regulations
upon the throne of his father Ea Harmakhis as triumphant.
Now behold the majesty of Shu was in [his] palace in
Memphis : his majesty said to the great cycle of nine gods
which followed him," Come now, let us proceed to the Eastern2
[horizon], to my palace in At jSTebes,3 and see our father
Ba-Harmakhis in the Eastern horizon : let us pass 1 [thither]
by the canal (11), let us employ ourselves ? in ordering our
palace in At ISTebes." Then they did according to all that his
majesty decreed : The majesty of Shu [proceeded] to his
palace in the House of the Aart.4 Then were built all the
apartments? of Hat Nebes5 [like] heaven upon its four sup-
ports : then was built the house of Sepd anew for (?) the majesty
of Shu, it is the temple that he loves; [account of] all its
arrangements as to the points to which it faced, whether
towards the south the north the west or the east: the
temples were erected [in] all the [pla]ces where they had
been: eight chapels were made on the left, eight on the
right, eight in the court? of the Eastern Horizon :6 This
[temple belongeth] to Shu in his name of Sepd lord of the
East: the face of each of these chapels was towards its
fellow: [they were] the apartments ? [of the] great cycle of
nine gods, and of the lesser cycle, of the gods who attend on Ea
and the gods who attend on Shu : moreover there were built
enclosures for Shu in [Hat Nobe]s 1 surrounding his temple:
(now) the face of this temple was towards the East, the
sun's rising ; and those (deities) who dwelt [in the places of]
the temples of each nome dwelt in it, in case 1 the nome
should fall into confusion, let one explain 17 this arrange
ment : [the enclosure of Hat ?] Nebes reached to Hat Nebes
on its north, and its face was towards the South: the
temples were on [its] sides and their faces [were] towards
the East: a pool was on its South side, a pool on its North
side : a great storehouse 1 of [. . . . ] was in front of this
temple reaching to Per Art. Now Per Art was of the time of 1
Ea: the majesty of Shu placed his staff upon the At [ . . .
and it became] a sacred locality in At ISTebes, its southern
face was towards the Per Art : gods, goddesses, men, and all
2 Or the horizon of Bekhat. Bekhat was the mountain
from which the sun rose. At Nebes was particularly the
city of the rising sun. The solar connection is shown also
by the fragment of a shrine in the Louvre, on which arc
figured the decanal deities. [Louvre, D. 37.]
3 The place of the Sycamore 1 sanctuary of the city of
Goshen.
4 Cf. Per Art in 1. 16 &c, a new name of a locality in
Goshen.
s The house of the Sycamore 1
"Probably the sanctuary.
7 Very doubtf ul.