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THE SCENES AND INSCRIPTIONS
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Eekhmara at the inner end lias been entirely longitudinally in two rows, each column having
erased, and the lower halves of lines 29-36
have been cut away. A flake of stone from
the centre of the wall has also fallen and
carried with it part of lines 9-15. Fortunately
the destroyed part of the scene can be restored
from the description of the vezir's court given
in the first two lines of the long inscription,
and many of the lacunas in the inscription it-
self can be filled in from two parallel texts
which I discovered in the tombs of the Vezirs
User (who immediately preceded Eekhmara)
and Amenemapt (Rekhmara's successor under
Amenhetep II.). The inscription above the
erased figure of Rekhmara on plate iv. records
that the scene represented " the sitting of the
vezir in his divan or audience-hall to hear
petitions " presented by the people of Upper
a palm-leafed capital and a circular, perhaps
stone, base. Each column bears the cartouche
of the reigning monarch and the name of the
vezir. At the inner end of the hall was
represented a slightly-raised dais bearing a
throne of the ordinary jj-shape, upon which
was seated Rekhmara. He was shown clad in
a shenep-garment (the long raiment peculiar to
the vezirial office), and immediately before him
was spread upon the ground a ken-mat. Furs
or skins were placed at his back and beneath
his feet, and in the right hand he held a
jj-baton. On the vezir's right stood the
mer dlcheniit, " superintendent of the interior "
(of the hall), and upon his left the an Ichet ale,
an officer whose duty it was to attend to
Egypt. The audience-hall, called Ma,1 is | " things entering." In front of the vezir (vide
The ffl $- Jte.Q Seribes of the Ve
Petitiouers
e
*1 n The .\ ^555 .
Tho ^ tfc m Elders of the Southern Tenu —■*»««■
o o '__o
Petitioners S fe f Tl,c .OPerdrnM* Roll
o o
Thejgs^ j1, EWers of the Southern Ten«
Messenger Tto ffi m - ^Sf T Euribea of the Velir
Plan of the Vezir's Audience-hall.
here shown to be a rectangular chamber
bounded at the back and sides by walls; at
the front it is open to the air.2 The roof is
supported by six slender columns arranged
1 On this word see Newberry in Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch.,
vol. xxii., pp. 99-105.
2 See the plan constructed from the scene on plate iv.,
with details added from the information given in the
hieroglyphic inscription, plate ii.
plate iv.) are spread, upon four mats with
fringed edges, the forty parchment rolls (con-
taining the Books of the Law ?), and in the
aisles on either side are arranged the twenty
uru res met, " elders of the Southern Tens," who
may be seen in the second and fourth rows of
plate iv. Behind these officials stood the
vezir's scribes, ten a-side and facing one another
(rows 1 and 5). The petitioners are depicted
23
Eekhmara at the inner end lias been entirely longitudinally in two rows, each column having
erased, and the lower halves of lines 29-36
have been cut away. A flake of stone from
the centre of the wall has also fallen and
carried with it part of lines 9-15. Fortunately
the destroyed part of the scene can be restored
from the description of the vezir's court given
in the first two lines of the long inscription,
and many of the lacunas in the inscription it-
self can be filled in from two parallel texts
which I discovered in the tombs of the Vezirs
User (who immediately preceded Eekhmara)
and Amenemapt (Rekhmara's successor under
Amenhetep II.). The inscription above the
erased figure of Rekhmara on plate iv. records
that the scene represented " the sitting of the
vezir in his divan or audience-hall to hear
petitions " presented by the people of Upper
a palm-leafed capital and a circular, perhaps
stone, base. Each column bears the cartouche
of the reigning monarch and the name of the
vezir. At the inner end of the hall was
represented a slightly-raised dais bearing a
throne of the ordinary jj-shape, upon which
was seated Rekhmara. He was shown clad in
a shenep-garment (the long raiment peculiar to
the vezirial office), and immediately before him
was spread upon the ground a ken-mat. Furs
or skins were placed at his back and beneath
his feet, and in the right hand he held a
jj-baton. On the vezir's right stood the
mer dlcheniit, " superintendent of the interior "
(of the hall), and upon his left the an Ichet ale,
an officer whose duty it was to attend to
Egypt. The audience-hall, called Ma,1 is | " things entering." In front of the vezir (vide
The ffl $- Jte.Q Seribes of the Ve
Petitiouers
e
*1 n The .\ ^555 .
Tho ^ tfc m Elders of the Southern Tenu —■*»««■
o o '__o
Petitioners S fe f Tl,c .OPerdrnM* Roll
o o
Thejgs^ j1, EWers of the Southern Ten«
Messenger Tto ffi m - ^Sf T Euribea of the Velir
Plan of the Vezir's Audience-hall.
here shown to be a rectangular chamber
bounded at the back and sides by walls; at
the front it is open to the air.2 The roof is
supported by six slender columns arranged
1 On this word see Newberry in Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch.,
vol. xxii., pp. 99-105.
2 See the plan constructed from the scene on plate iv.,
with details added from the information given in the
hieroglyphic inscription, plate ii.
plate iv.) are spread, upon four mats with
fringed edges, the forty parchment rolls (con-
taining the Books of the Law ?), and in the
aisles on either side are arranged the twenty
uru res met, " elders of the Southern Tens," who
may be seen in the second and fourth rows of
plate iv. Behind these officials stood the
vezir's scribes, ten a-side and facing one another
(rows 1 and 5). The petitioners are depicted