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THE INSCRIPTIONS.
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name of the palace. Next comes n } ff 11 smr
pr-stn, "friend in the palace" (cf. xxxi. 40)
^| hry sst3 (n) wz't mdw, "over the secrets
of decrees," and further ±^ ^(?)U " priest of (?)
Annbis in the Divine Abode (?)." The title of
Anubis with the feathers on the animal occurs
very similarly in the ancient tomb of Kha-bau-
Seker at Saqqareh, Mar., Mast., p. 77; cf.
above, xxix. 86. The remaining titles and
signs at the left-hand end are obscure.
This stela belongs to the end of the 1st
Dynasty, and is the most highly developed of
those found. A comparison with the panels of
Hesy and the tomb of Kha-bau-Seker shows what
great progress took place in the art of design
and sculpture between the end of the 1st
Dynasty and the end of the Illrd Dynasty,
which is the latest period to which these two
monuments can possibly be attributed.
The inscriptions from stelae, searings, &c, on
pis. xxxi., xxxii. present many interesting points
for further investigation, but time does not admit
of a full examination of them here. We note
curious names, strange signs, difficult titles, and
perhaps some determinative signs.
The above hasty remarks on these most in-
teresting remains of a remote past, it is to be
hoped, will quickly be rendered nugatory by
further investigation in the study and further
discovery in the field.
45
name of the palace. Next comes n } ff 11 smr
pr-stn, "friend in the palace" (cf. xxxi. 40)
^| hry sst3 (n) wz't mdw, "over the secrets
of decrees," and further ±^ ^(?)U " priest of (?)
Annbis in the Divine Abode (?)." The title of
Anubis with the feathers on the animal occurs
very similarly in the ancient tomb of Kha-bau-
Seker at Saqqareh, Mar., Mast., p. 77; cf.
above, xxix. 86. The remaining titles and
signs at the left-hand end are obscure.
This stela belongs to the end of the 1st
Dynasty, and is the most highly developed of
those found. A comparison with the panels of
Hesy and the tomb of Kha-bau-Seker shows what
great progress took place in the art of design
and sculpture between the end of the 1st
Dynasty and the end of the Illrd Dynasty,
which is the latest period to which these two
monuments can possibly be attributed.
The inscriptions from stelae, searings, &c, on
pis. xxxi., xxxii. present many interesting points
for further investigation, but time does not admit
of a full examination of them here. We note
curious names, strange signs, difficult titles, and
perhaps some determinative signs.
The above hasty remarks on these most in-
teresting remains of a remote past, it is to be
hoped, will quickly be rendered nugatory by
further investigation in the study and further
discovery in the field.