Nicholson, Charles: Aegyptiaca (London, 1891)

122 ON THE DISK-WORSHIPPERS OF MEMPHIS.

Amenoph IV, concerning whose exact order of suc-
cession so much hopeless perplexity exists. The
two centre rings would appear to contain the names
of the king the immediate predecessor of Horns,*

Ra A rich Kheprou ;

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whilst that to the right, probably, belonged to a
contemporary queen,

Tii.

There seems to be great difficulty in assigning the
true position of this queen, or her exact relationship
to contemporary sovereigns. The occurrence of her
name in the present instance may arise from her
having been, as has been suggested, co-regent with
one or more of the successors of Amenoph ; and of
her having so transferred the royal authority to
the king with whose shield her own is associated.
The fragment from which the drawing was made,
appears in too mutilated a condition to allow of any
positive inference as to the other royal names of
which there are traces.

Shortly after the remains above described had been
disinterred, the party engaged in the excavation

* Vide " Histoire d'Egypte," par Brugsch, pi. 261; " Konigsbnch
der alten Aegypter," von B. Lepsius; "Zweite Abtheilung, die Hiero-
glyphischen Tafeln," Taf. xxix, Nos. 389, 399.