Petrie, William M. Flinders: Abydos: Part I: 1902 (London, 1902)

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ABYDOS I.

ne Ichat-f Tahut-mes-nefer-kheperu zetta (1) 'The
living Horus, Bull in Thebes, (2) King of Upper
and Lower Egypt, Lord of the two Lands,
Ra-men-kheper, (3) Son of the Sun, of his
body, Tahutimes-nefer-kheperu (the Third),
like the Sun for ever.' The right hand
side gives the cartouches Bd-aa-lchepcr-ne
and Talmt - mes - nefer - khdu (the Second),
with similar titles. Osiris Temple. Dyn.
XVIII.

PI. lxv. 9, 10. Standing figures of a man and
woman, roughly worked in grey granite, having
two vertical lines of hieroglyphs upon the front
and back. The frontal inscriptions read : neter
hen dep ne TJsdr Un-nefer mad hheru; and sent-f
nebt per-f qemdt ne Ast Thiy ' The High Priest
of Osiris, Un-nefer, true-voiced; his sister, the
lady of his house, the Singer of Isis, Thiy.'
That upon the back reads: Se-hez TJsdr neter
hen dep ne TJsdr Un-nefer mad Icheru; nebt per-f
qemdt TJsdr Thiy madt Icheru zed nes Nefert-dri
i The glorified Osirian High Priest of Osiris, Un-
nefer, true-voiced ; the lady of his house, the
Singer of Osiris, Thiy, true-voiced, also named
[lit. said of her] ISTefertari.' A few notes with
regard to the life of this famous High Priest
are given in connection Avith two other of his
inscriptions upon pi. lxvii. Osiris Temenos.
Dyn. XIX.

PI. lxvi. 1. Fragment of a small limestone
stele, upon which a man is figured, holding in
his hand a kind of brazier. Above his head is

inscribed.....per hen-f. . . u-nefer Amen-

neb uhem dnkh '... of the palace of His

Majesty [in] the city of.....u-nefer:

Amen-neb, renewing life.' Osiris Temenos.
Dyn. XVIII.

2. Portion of a limestone stele of a man and
his sister. The name of the former is destroyed,
but that of the latter is Bakt-mut. Osiris
Temenos. Dyn. XIX.

3. Two fragments of a limestone statuette

of a person named.....yd, giving the

interesting invocation dan ne Jca-h TJsdr 'Adora-

tions to thy ka, 0 Osiris.' Osiris Temenos.
Dyn. XIX. '

4. Two fragments of the inscription upon a
small basalt statuette of Min-mcs, the High
Priest of Anhur. Min-mes, who is knoAvn from
various other monuments (G-arstang, El Arabali,
pp. 11, 35; Broc. Soc. Bib. Arch. vol. xxiii,
p. 250 ; idem p. 13), lived in the reign of
Rameses II, and was the step-brother of the
High Priest of Osiris, Un-nefer, who is men-
tioned in this chapter. Early in life he held
the positions of royal scribe, and priest of Shu
and of Anhur: his father Herd being High
Priest of the latter deity. He was later elevated
by Rameses to the position of ami as Shu
Tefnut ' Official of the Temple of Shu and
Tefnut; and on his father's death became Hioh
Priest of Anhur. A statuette calls him kheri
heb herl dep ne neb taut ' Chief Lector to the
King.' The Lectors seem to have corresponded
in a manner to the Magi of Persia; and the
position of Chief Lector, although at this
period much deteriorated, was in the Old
Kingdom one of the highest in the land.
Dyn. XIX.

5. Part of a limestone stele, showing a seated
male figure holding a lotus flower. At the top
is a short inscription reading . ... tie ka ne
dlchu dker Bd neb pet seten neteru Ba-dsi '. . . .
for the ka of the perfect glory of Ra, Lord of
Heaven, King of the Gods: Pa-asi.' A some-
what similar stele of this person, whereon his

name is written Ax_ [ I , has just been

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published by M. Capart in his ' Recueil de
Monuments Egyptiens, 1902.' He is there

called the # ^ © © j] ' glory of Ra.' Pro-
fessor Maspero has several times called atten-
tion to the formula ne ka ne dlchu dker ne
Bd, and he remarks that this apparent identi-
fication of the deceased witli Pa occurs in a few
inscriptions of the XlXth and XXth Dynasties,
but at no other period. There is a Pa-asi
known on a papyrus at Turin, who held the

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