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THE HORNET 101
Third Dynasty, 4000 B.C continuously ; it is seen in
the rock tablet of Khufu at Wady Maghara, near
Sinai, and is repeatedly cut, in many cases very
deeply, upon the temples of Thebes, which were
enlarged by Rameses III. The hornet or wasp may
have been a standard of the army borne by the
" King's Own." ' The emblem was well known to
Moses, who by it referred in his prophecy to the
King of Egypt Rameses III. has left us a record
of his fulfilment of the prediction engraved in the
stone walls of his own palace and temple in Western
Thebes.
On entering the Hall of Royal Mummies two
enormous and lofty mummy cases are seen standing
erect, on the right and left, and appear to guard and
watch over the assemblage. One was the coffin of
Omen Ahmes Nefert-ari, the wife of Ahmes, the first
king of the XYIIIth Dynasty, and the other was that
of her daughter Aah-Hotep ; they are about ten feet
in height, and very handsomely decorated.
The first glass ease contains the body of Rameses
the Great! We look with feelings of awe and
reverence, upon the very features of die Pharaoh
who ordered the destruction of every male child born
of the Hebrew race, and whose grandson fell in the
retributive justice of God under the tenth and last
plague—the death of the firstborn! The same
Pharaoh whose favourite daughter saved and reared
the Hebrew boy, whom she named Moses, and who
grew up under her care as "a prince and a ruler,"
and was learned in "all the wisdom of the Egyptians,"
and who, "when he was full forty years old," tied
* "The l.uixl shall hiss for tbefly that is in the uttermost part of
the rivers of Egypt," &C (Isa. vii. |8).
Third Dynasty, 4000 B.C continuously ; it is seen in
the rock tablet of Khufu at Wady Maghara, near
Sinai, and is repeatedly cut, in many cases very
deeply, upon the temples of Thebes, which were
enlarged by Rameses III. The hornet or wasp may
have been a standard of the army borne by the
" King's Own." ' The emblem was well known to
Moses, who by it referred in his prophecy to the
King of Egypt Rameses III. has left us a record
of his fulfilment of the prediction engraved in the
stone walls of his own palace and temple in Western
Thebes.
On entering the Hall of Royal Mummies two
enormous and lofty mummy cases are seen standing
erect, on the right and left, and appear to guard and
watch over the assemblage. One was the coffin of
Omen Ahmes Nefert-ari, the wife of Ahmes, the first
king of the XYIIIth Dynasty, and the other was that
of her daughter Aah-Hotep ; they are about ten feet
in height, and very handsomely decorated.
The first glass ease contains the body of Rameses
the Great! We look with feelings of awe and
reverence, upon the very features of die Pharaoh
who ordered the destruction of every male child born
of the Hebrew race, and whose grandson fell in the
retributive justice of God under the tenth and last
plague—the death of the firstborn! The same
Pharaoh whose favourite daughter saved and reared
the Hebrew boy, whom she named Moses, and who
grew up under her care as "a prince and a ruler,"
and was learned in "all the wisdom of the Egyptians,"
and who, "when he was full forty years old," tied
* "The l.uixl shall hiss for tbefly that is in the uttermost part of
the rivers of Egypt," &C (Isa. vii. |8).