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EL KAB.
Neolithic type; nearer the wall are diorite bowls,
alabaster tables, flat dishes of limestone and alabaster,
a bronze ewer (from Ka-mena), and a pottery model
of a granary.
No. 2 shows all the small objects from the im-
portant tomb with a majur burial (166)—shells,
ivory disc, ivory hairpins, a flint flake, a steatite
cylinder, beads, ivory bracelets, two pots and two
stone bowls. (For inscription on the cylinder v.
PL. XX, 29).
No. 3 represents the objects from Ka-mena's tomb
as photographed in front of our house soon after being
found (larger size in Pl. Ill, 2).
No. 4 shows a mastaba wall when just ex-
cavated.
No. 5 is a view of our house with the stacks of
pottery before it.
Pl. III.—No. 1. The sandstone statue of Nefer-
shem-em.
No. 2. The bronze and stone objects from Ka-mena
of the time of Sneferu, with whose name the flat
diorite bowl below was inscribed. The central
bowl is of very light-coloured, translucent diorite,
and the deeper one of porphyry. Below are model
tools in copper. (These are given in outline, PL.
XVIII, 56-65.)
Pl. IV. (Note by Dr. Spiegelberg.)
1. Table of offerings from dry stream bed on desert
near Amenhotep's temple, dedicated with the usual
formula addressed to Anubis, Osiris, and Nekhbet, by
" the confidential friend of the king, the treasurer,
chief prophet, destroying the evil (?) [Kfau ? asf?]"
. . . and to his father "deserving well of his god,
the confidential friend of the king, the treasurer,*
chief prophet, privy councillor of the royal treasure
Shemaa."
This is the person mentioned in a rock inscription
of El Kab, published by Stern (Aeg. Zcitschr., 1875,
PL. I r.). By this identification we can claim this
tablet for the Vlth dynasty.
2. The inscription of this Xllth dynasty sandstone
stela from the cemetery must be divided in the
middle. The right half—" the well-deserved of
Anubis, Usrtsn, son of Srtuy (?)"—relates to the
chief personage holding a nabut in the left hand
and the well-known sceptre of command in the
right.
The person behind, who carries a long Nymphaea
caerulea, is "his beloved son, Khuy, son of Mryt-[a]tfs,"
* For dasuta, see Spiegelberg in a forthcoming paper of Aeg.
Zeits.
and may be the dedicator of this stela. So we have
the following genealogy :—
Srtuy (?)
I
Usrtsn—Mryt-[a]tfs
!
Khuy
3. Limestone stela of the end of the Xllth dynasty,
from the cemetery, dedicated by a certain Sabna to
his father, who had the same name and was a prophet
of Amon.
In the first line we have the formula of offering
addressed to Osiris, the next contain this gene-
alogy :—
Ankhtat I
I
Ankht-at II = Sabna I = Mrt-ats
I I
Hny Sabna II
PL. V.—No. i. A figure of blue-glazed ware from a
Xllth dynasty tomb (No. 1). It represents a very
flat-headed deity, with the youthful side-lock, the
body in mummy form, the darker lines representing
a bead network.
No. 2 is the alabaster ushabti of the Xllth dynasty.
No. 3 is the fine bronze (height 19 cm.), now at
Ghizeh, representing a man adoring Nekheb; his
hands are side by side before him, palms down. This
is by far the finest of the 800 bronzes found together ;
of these 700 were worthless, the rest ordinary Osiris
figures.
No. 4. A group of the peculiar pots in which the
characters of a table of offerings and a model of a
house seem to be combined. They are only known in
the Middle Kingdom, occurred at Ballas as well as El
Kab, and are common in museums. The offering's
inside can be seen in good examples to be the head
and legs of an ox, bread (?), and jars of water. One
model shows the roof of a hut made of logs of wood,
and the outside staircase.
No. 5. A group found together, consisting of a sa
amulet of bronze, a dark steatite cylinder, and a little
glazed steatite draughtsman with a human head and
traces of some sign inscribed below. The inscription
on the cylinder is copied in PL. XX, 28, and is rather
puzzling. The name in a cartouche seems to be Ka-
kau-ra, which is not that of a known king. As the
pottery in the tomb is of the Xllth dynasty, and the
tomb is in the cemetery of that period, one might
read Kha-kau-ra, Usertesen III, but his Ka name,
Neter-kheperu, is known, and cannot be read in the
other name on the cylinder. The cylinder is of a
type known in the IVth and Vth dynasties, and
EL KAB.
Neolithic type; nearer the wall are diorite bowls,
alabaster tables, flat dishes of limestone and alabaster,
a bronze ewer (from Ka-mena), and a pottery model
of a granary.
No. 2 shows all the small objects from the im-
portant tomb with a majur burial (166)—shells,
ivory disc, ivory hairpins, a flint flake, a steatite
cylinder, beads, ivory bracelets, two pots and two
stone bowls. (For inscription on the cylinder v.
PL. XX, 29).
No. 3 represents the objects from Ka-mena's tomb
as photographed in front of our house soon after being
found (larger size in Pl. Ill, 2).
No. 4 shows a mastaba wall when just ex-
cavated.
No. 5 is a view of our house with the stacks of
pottery before it.
Pl. III.—No. 1. The sandstone statue of Nefer-
shem-em.
No. 2. The bronze and stone objects from Ka-mena
of the time of Sneferu, with whose name the flat
diorite bowl below was inscribed. The central
bowl is of very light-coloured, translucent diorite,
and the deeper one of porphyry. Below are model
tools in copper. (These are given in outline, PL.
XVIII, 56-65.)
Pl. IV. (Note by Dr. Spiegelberg.)
1. Table of offerings from dry stream bed on desert
near Amenhotep's temple, dedicated with the usual
formula addressed to Anubis, Osiris, and Nekhbet, by
" the confidential friend of the king, the treasurer,
chief prophet, destroying the evil (?) [Kfau ? asf?]"
. . . and to his father "deserving well of his god,
the confidential friend of the king, the treasurer,*
chief prophet, privy councillor of the royal treasure
Shemaa."
This is the person mentioned in a rock inscription
of El Kab, published by Stern (Aeg. Zcitschr., 1875,
PL. I r.). By this identification we can claim this
tablet for the Vlth dynasty.
2. The inscription of this Xllth dynasty sandstone
stela from the cemetery must be divided in the
middle. The right half—" the well-deserved of
Anubis, Usrtsn, son of Srtuy (?)"—relates to the
chief personage holding a nabut in the left hand
and the well-known sceptre of command in the
right.
The person behind, who carries a long Nymphaea
caerulea, is "his beloved son, Khuy, son of Mryt-[a]tfs,"
* For dasuta, see Spiegelberg in a forthcoming paper of Aeg.
Zeits.
and may be the dedicator of this stela. So we have
the following genealogy :—
Srtuy (?)
I
Usrtsn—Mryt-[a]tfs
!
Khuy
3. Limestone stela of the end of the Xllth dynasty,
from the cemetery, dedicated by a certain Sabna to
his father, who had the same name and was a prophet
of Amon.
In the first line we have the formula of offering
addressed to Osiris, the next contain this gene-
alogy :—
Ankhtat I
I
Ankht-at II = Sabna I = Mrt-ats
I I
Hny Sabna II
PL. V.—No. i. A figure of blue-glazed ware from a
Xllth dynasty tomb (No. 1). It represents a very
flat-headed deity, with the youthful side-lock, the
body in mummy form, the darker lines representing
a bead network.
No. 2 is the alabaster ushabti of the Xllth dynasty.
No. 3 is the fine bronze (height 19 cm.), now at
Ghizeh, representing a man adoring Nekheb; his
hands are side by side before him, palms down. This
is by far the finest of the 800 bronzes found together ;
of these 700 were worthless, the rest ordinary Osiris
figures.
No. 4. A group of the peculiar pots in which the
characters of a table of offerings and a model of a
house seem to be combined. They are only known in
the Middle Kingdom, occurred at Ballas as well as El
Kab, and are common in museums. The offering's
inside can be seen in good examples to be the head
and legs of an ox, bread (?), and jars of water. One
model shows the roof of a hut made of logs of wood,
and the outside staircase.
No. 5. A group found together, consisting of a sa
amulet of bronze, a dark steatite cylinder, and a little
glazed steatite draughtsman with a human head and
traces of some sign inscribed below. The inscription
on the cylinder is copied in PL. XX, 28, and is rather
puzzling. The name in a cartouche seems to be Ka-
kau-ra, which is not that of a known king. As the
pottery in the tomb is of the Xllth dynasty, and the
tomb is in the cemetery of that period, one might
read Kha-kau-ra, Usertesen III, but his Ka name,
Neter-kheperu, is known, and cannot be read in the
other name on the cylinder. The cylinder is of a
type known in the IVth and Vth dynasties, and