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escaped us. But by a fortunate chance the name of the scribe who prepared the text and
probably the drawings of the tomb as originally designed by Hepzefa, is given in the inmost
room:1 “the lector-priest, the scribe of this tomb, given from the King’s house, Khety son
of Ptahemsaf.” It will be remembered that Hepzefa was “overseer of the king’s estate,”
and it would be quite in accordance with his character to have detailed Khety to this private
work without express royal permission.
(4) The statue of seseshra-khuwtauwy
33. The basis of a very fine alabaster statue, less than life size, was found in the corridor
(B) of K X, near the floor, and about six meters south of the burial chamber (A). Near it
were numerous fragments of other monuments which had evidently been broken up for
stone in the place where they were found. The alabaster statue bore the arms of united
Egypt on the sides and a line of inscription down the front of the throne on each side. The
line on the left was legible as follows:
“ The good god, lord of the Two Lands, the king of Upper and Lower Egypt, Seseshra-
khuwtauwy, the son of Ra, of his body, ” (Fig. 343, 33.)
The identification of this king with the king of Upper and Lower Egypt Seseshra-khuwtauwy,
the son of Ra, Amenemhat-Sebekhotep, is obvious. He was first definitely known from a
very finely carved limestone door-lintel found at Der-el-Bahri.2 There can be no doubt
also that he is a king of Dynasty XIII, but his exact position in the dynasty is confused by
the apparent existence of a king named Sekhemra-khuwtauwy, whose identity is based on:
(a) Four Nilometer records, years 1-4, at Semneh-Kummeh.
(&) A legal document, dated in his first year.
(c) An architrave from Bubastis.
(d) Two cylinder seals in the British Museum.
(e) A cylinder seal.
(/) A cylinder seal.3
Now the name of the fifteenth king of Dynasty XIII in the Turin Papyrus has been
read, “King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Sekhemra-khuwtauwy”; but on examination,
the sign read sekhem has the form of the sign sesesh usual in hieratic scripts of the period of
the New Kingdom, to which the Turin Papyrus is to be dated.4 The fifteenth king of
Dynasty XIII should, therefore, be our Seseshra-khuwtauwy, with a reign of three years,
x months, and x days. In the hieratic of the Middle Kingdom, however, including Dynasty
XIII, the signs sekhem and sesesh are not distinguishable. Thus the Kahun name (&.,
1 L.c., pl. 3, line 132.
2 Naville, The Xlth Dynasty Temple of Deir-el-Bahari II, Pl. X B and p. 11.
3 (a) K. R. Lepsius, Denkmaeler II, London, 1914, p. 151 a-d.
(&) F. L. Griffith, Kahun Papyri, London, Pl. X, line 3.
(c) E. Naville, Bubastis, London, 1891, Pl. XXXIII, G, H, I, and p. 15. The material of the architrave is
not named.
(d) W. M. F. Petrie, Historical Scarabs, London, 1889, p. 10, nos. 278, 279. British Museum numbers
3663, 16752.
(e) W. M. F. Petrie, Scarabs and Cylinders, London, 1917, Pl. XVIII. Cylinder no. 13:15, 1, is evidently
the name of the first king of Dynasty XIII.
(/) W. M. F. Petrie, Ibid., Pl. XVIII. Cylinder no. 13:15, 2.
4 Cf. Moeller, Hieratische Palaeographie II, nos. 449, and 539.
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escaped us. But by a fortunate chance the name of the scribe who prepared the text and
probably the drawings of the tomb as originally designed by Hepzefa, is given in the inmost
room:1 “the lector-priest, the scribe of this tomb, given from the King’s house, Khety son
of Ptahemsaf.” It will be remembered that Hepzefa was “overseer of the king’s estate,”
and it would be quite in accordance with his character to have detailed Khety to this private
work without express royal permission.
(4) The statue of seseshra-khuwtauwy
33. The basis of a very fine alabaster statue, less than life size, was found in the corridor
(B) of K X, near the floor, and about six meters south of the burial chamber (A). Near it
were numerous fragments of other monuments which had evidently been broken up for
stone in the place where they were found. The alabaster statue bore the arms of united
Egypt on the sides and a line of inscription down the front of the throne on each side. The
line on the left was legible as follows:
“ The good god, lord of the Two Lands, the king of Upper and Lower Egypt, Seseshra-
khuwtauwy, the son of Ra, of his body, ” (Fig. 343, 33.)
The identification of this king with the king of Upper and Lower Egypt Seseshra-khuwtauwy,
the son of Ra, Amenemhat-Sebekhotep, is obvious. He was first definitely known from a
very finely carved limestone door-lintel found at Der-el-Bahri.2 There can be no doubt
also that he is a king of Dynasty XIII, but his exact position in the dynasty is confused by
the apparent existence of a king named Sekhemra-khuwtauwy, whose identity is based on:
(a) Four Nilometer records, years 1-4, at Semneh-Kummeh.
(&) A legal document, dated in his first year.
(c) An architrave from Bubastis.
(d) Two cylinder seals in the British Museum.
(e) A cylinder seal.
(/) A cylinder seal.3
Now the name of the fifteenth king of Dynasty XIII in the Turin Papyrus has been
read, “King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Sekhemra-khuwtauwy”; but on examination,
the sign read sekhem has the form of the sign sesesh usual in hieratic scripts of the period of
the New Kingdom, to which the Turin Papyrus is to be dated.4 The fifteenth king of
Dynasty XIII should, therefore, be our Seseshra-khuwtauwy, with a reign of three years,
x months, and x days. In the hieratic of the Middle Kingdom, however, including Dynasty
XIII, the signs sekhem and sesesh are not distinguishable. Thus the Kahun name (&.,
1 L.c., pl. 3, line 132.
2 Naville, The Xlth Dynasty Temple of Deir-el-Bahari II, Pl. X B and p. 11.
3 (a) K. R. Lepsius, Denkmaeler II, London, 1914, p. 151 a-d.
(&) F. L. Griffith, Kahun Papyri, London, Pl. X, line 3.
(c) E. Naville, Bubastis, London, 1891, Pl. XXXIII, G, H, I, and p. 15. The material of the architrave is
not named.
(d) W. M. F. Petrie, Historical Scarabs, London, 1889, p. 10, nos. 278, 279. British Museum numbers
3663, 16752.
(e) W. M. F. Petrie, Scarabs and Cylinders, London, 1917, Pl. XVIII. Cylinder no. 13:15, 1, is evidently
the name of the first king of Dynasty XIII.
(/) W. M. F. Petrie, Ibid., Pl. XVIII. Cylinder no. 13:15, 2.
4 Cf. Moeller, Hieratische Palaeographie II, nos. 449, and 539.