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1 Parts of
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aent of a
have been
mrped the
•• We see
ltw, which
sanctuary
Id another
and which
e gods of
hief of the
ornamen-
was head
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last title is
o a merely
his offices
e city; he
{of yean)
ime of the
rected. I
)rkon, who
Whether
>t, Horrnes
lers of tk
(of f^n)
sanctuary
was called
lam. "e
)mpanyini!
Babastis,
ival She
3 altW
rives, cob-
e worst'P
ttion of *>
imposs^
THE XXIInd DYNASTY AT LBONTOPOLIS.
31
that she was dead when he built the sanc-
tuary at Tell Mokdam, and that he deified
her, even as later on Ptolemy Philadelphia
deified his sister-wife Arsinoe. It is to be
noticed that here we find her name written
u
Karoamam, whereas in the in-
scriptions at Bubastis, where her name occurs
so often, we never find the final t----.
Again, at Tell Mokdam, though on a smaller-
scale, we find, further proof of a fact which was
so strikingly brought into evidence by the
excavations at Bubastis. The two Osorkons,
who until a few years ago were thought to
have been obscure kings governing a weak and
impoverished country, and having great diffi-
culty in defending their throne against invaders
from east and west, now stand out as wealthy
monarchs, fond of erecting temples and great
buildings, and who made magnificent gifts to
the gods of the land. This could not have
been so unless the kingdom had been at peace
and prosperous. It was not under the Osor-
kons that the great decadence took place which
is so marked under the XXIIIrd and XXIVth
Dynasties. If it began at all under the
Bubastites, it was only under the later ones.
In the sanctuary which he built to Osiris
and to his queen, Osorkon collected other
statues than those of the Xllth Dynasty.
There was the base of a standing statue of
RamesesII., in red granite, with his cartouches
and titles repeated several times, even on his
belt. Everywhere among them we find this
epithet, <=> y P beloved like Phthah. It would
have been strange if, amid the ruins of a sanc-
tuary containing statues, there had not been
found at least one monument bearing the
name of Rameses II.
1 Parts of
the Wo
aent of a
have been
mrped the
•• We see
ltw, which
sanctuary
Id another
and which
e gods of
hief of the
ornamen-
was head
i charge to
last title is
o a merely
his offices
e city; he
{of yean)
ime of the
rected. I
)rkon, who
Whether
>t, Horrnes
lers of tk
(of f^n)
sanctuary
was called
lam. "e
)mpanyini!
Babastis,
ival She
3 altW
rives, cob-
e worst'P
ttion of *>
imposs^
THE XXIInd DYNASTY AT LBONTOPOLIS.
31
that she was dead when he built the sanc-
tuary at Tell Mokdam, and that he deified
her, even as later on Ptolemy Philadelphia
deified his sister-wife Arsinoe. It is to be
noticed that here we find her name written
u
Karoamam, whereas in the in-
scriptions at Bubastis, where her name occurs
so often, we never find the final t----.
Again, at Tell Mokdam, though on a smaller-
scale, we find, further proof of a fact which was
so strikingly brought into evidence by the
excavations at Bubastis. The two Osorkons,
who until a few years ago were thought to
have been obscure kings governing a weak and
impoverished country, and having great diffi-
culty in defending their throne against invaders
from east and west, now stand out as wealthy
monarchs, fond of erecting temples and great
buildings, and who made magnificent gifts to
the gods of the land. This could not have
been so unless the kingdom had been at peace
and prosperous. It was not under the Osor-
kons that the great decadence took place which
is so marked under the XXIIIrd and XXIVth
Dynasties. If it began at all under the
Bubastites, it was only under the later ones.
In the sanctuary which he built to Osiris
and to his queen, Osorkon collected other
statues than those of the Xllth Dynasty.
There was the base of a standing statue of
RamesesII., in red granite, with his cartouches
and titles repeated several times, even on his
belt. Everywhere among them we find this
epithet, <=> y P beloved like Phthah. It would
have been strange if, amid the ruins of a sanc-
tuary containing statues, there had not been
found at least one monument bearing the
name of Rameses II.