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hetep, the prince Paser,* the chief scribe of the
auditors Un-nefer, and the chief foreman User-
Khepesh. The wazir Kha-em-uas is, as we have
seen, mentioned in several other documents.
The prince Paser appears in the great trial
recorded in the Abbott Papyrus, and the name
of the foreman User-Khepesh in other docu-
ments preserved in the British Museum, at
Liverpool and in Turin.
Among the prisoners were merchants, scribes,
weavers, metal workers and other artificers,
guards, peasants, water-carriers, bakers and
oil-boilers, slaves, washermen, canal-workers, a
barber, several seamstresses and other Theban
women, a gardener and a captain of Nubian !
soldiers. Most of these people were inhabi- >
tants of eastern Thebes, and were employed j
in the service of the high priest of Amen or
served in the temple of Amen. Others belonged
to the. temple buildings of the kings, such as to
the Kcndu or to the temple of Amenhetep III.
or to the temples of Thothmes I, of Seti I or
Ramses III. Several held posts in the royal !
granary or granaries of the temple of Amen or j
of Khonsu. Many of the criminals lived in the
necropolis on the western bank of the river.
Several were from the Fayum; others were
attached to the service of the god Sebek of
Atur in the Fayum, of Khnum of Elephantine,
and of Mentu of Erment.
IV.
The Vlllth papyrus of the Amherst Collection
belongs to a great treatise on the Geography
of Egypt and the Fayum written in the
Ptolemaic period, perhaps under Ptolemy
Euergetes II. It is doubtful however whether
it originally formed part of the roll of the
* Lord Amherst possesses the lower part of an ushabti
figure inscribed with this prince's name.
great Fayum papyrus, portions of which are
preserved in the Gizeh Museum, in Austria
and in England, or whether it formed another
volume of the same book. The latter supposi-
tion would seem most probable, for the scattered
parts from Gizeh, Vienna and Lincoln have
recently been fitted together by M. Lanzoni of
Turin, and the document appears to present no
gaps. The Amherst Papyrus No. VIII how-
ever is of the same date, and is written in
the same handwriting. It enumerates the
various names or provinces of Egypt in their
geographical order, and gives a figure of the
crocodile-god Sebek, as the local divinity of
each. It also gives a representation of the
temple and acacia tree of Neith, which it is
stated was situated "at the side of" the
temple of Sebek, Lord of Ri-seh.
V.
Of the miscellaneous papyri but three call for
special notice. No. IX, of which unfortunately
only part of the first two pages and the last
lines of three others remain, related to the
legend of the goddess Astarte. Had it been
complete it would perhaps have been the most
valuable document of the whole collection. But
little can now be rescued from it. It mentions
Astarte as the "little one of Ptah," and the
early part referred to some god or other person
who bore the tribute of the sea. This tribute
is further stated to have consisted of silver,
gold, lapis lazuli and wood.
Papyrus No. X, of which only two fragments
remain, is written in the beautiful hieratic
writing characteristic of the middle kingdom.
The smaller fragment names a certain Sebek-
hetep; the larger mentions domestic animals,
flax, beads. It probably formed part of some
official account-book like the Great Account
Papyrus of the Gizeh Museum (Boulac
Papyrus, No. 18).
hetep, the prince Paser,* the chief scribe of the
auditors Un-nefer, and the chief foreman User-
Khepesh. The wazir Kha-em-uas is, as we have
seen, mentioned in several other documents.
The prince Paser appears in the great trial
recorded in the Abbott Papyrus, and the name
of the foreman User-Khepesh in other docu-
ments preserved in the British Museum, at
Liverpool and in Turin.
Among the prisoners were merchants, scribes,
weavers, metal workers and other artificers,
guards, peasants, water-carriers, bakers and
oil-boilers, slaves, washermen, canal-workers, a
barber, several seamstresses and other Theban
women, a gardener and a captain of Nubian !
soldiers. Most of these people were inhabi- >
tants of eastern Thebes, and were employed j
in the service of the high priest of Amen or
served in the temple of Amen. Others belonged
to the. temple buildings of the kings, such as to
the Kcndu or to the temple of Amenhetep III.
or to the temples of Thothmes I, of Seti I or
Ramses III. Several held posts in the royal !
granary or granaries of the temple of Amen or j
of Khonsu. Many of the criminals lived in the
necropolis on the western bank of the river.
Several were from the Fayum; others were
attached to the service of the god Sebek of
Atur in the Fayum, of Khnum of Elephantine,
and of Mentu of Erment.
IV.
The Vlllth papyrus of the Amherst Collection
belongs to a great treatise on the Geography
of Egypt and the Fayum written in the
Ptolemaic period, perhaps under Ptolemy
Euergetes II. It is doubtful however whether
it originally formed part of the roll of the
* Lord Amherst possesses the lower part of an ushabti
figure inscribed with this prince's name.
great Fayum papyrus, portions of which are
preserved in the Gizeh Museum, in Austria
and in England, or whether it formed another
volume of the same book. The latter supposi-
tion would seem most probable, for the scattered
parts from Gizeh, Vienna and Lincoln have
recently been fitted together by M. Lanzoni of
Turin, and the document appears to present no
gaps. The Amherst Papyrus No. VIII how-
ever is of the same date, and is written in
the same handwriting. It enumerates the
various names or provinces of Egypt in their
geographical order, and gives a figure of the
crocodile-god Sebek, as the local divinity of
each. It also gives a representation of the
temple and acacia tree of Neith, which it is
stated was situated "at the side of" the
temple of Sebek, Lord of Ri-seh.
V.
Of the miscellaneous papyri but three call for
special notice. No. IX, of which unfortunately
only part of the first two pages and the last
lines of three others remain, related to the
legend of the goddess Astarte. Had it been
complete it would perhaps have been the most
valuable document of the whole collection. But
little can now be rescued from it. It mentions
Astarte as the "little one of Ptah," and the
early part referred to some god or other person
who bore the tribute of the sea. This tribute
is further stated to have consisted of silver,
gold, lapis lazuli and wood.
Papyrus No. X, of which only two fragments
remain, is written in the beautiful hieratic
writing characteristic of the middle kingdom.
The smaller fragment names a certain Sebek-
hetep; the larger mentions domestic animals,
flax, beads. It probably formed part of some
official account-book like the Great Account
Papyrus of the Gizeh Museum (Boulac
Papyrus, No. 18).