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THE MIDDLE KINGDOM IN THEBES
E. The King s Herald, a Familiar of the God, whose name is heard
by the South and the 'North, the Truly Beloved of his Lord, Ma-hesa,
son of Dagi, born of Nedjment.
Letters 15 cm. high. Well carved with a chisel. Eisenlohr, Pl. II,
1. 8; Petrie, No. 456; Bissing, No. 20. The signs smS and sw were
purposely injured in ancient times, as was the sw in the inscription
directly below (F) and in another to the left (K).
We do not know the names of the wife or of the son of the Vizier
Dagi whose tomb, No. 103, was bulilt in the reign of, and near the
temple of, Neb-hepet-ReF Therefore, we cannot surely identify the
Dagi of the above inscription with the vizier.
F. The True Familiar of the King, Governor of the Northland, Itu.
Letters 19 cm. high. Rather unskillfully designed and carved.
Eisenlohr, Pl. II, 1. 9; Petrie, No. 448; Bissing No. 20. The sign sw
was purposely injured in ancient times. See E and K.
G. The Treasurer of the King of Lower Egypt, the Sole Com-
panion, the Governor of the Eastern Deserts, to whom Princes come
salaaming at the Gate of the King s Palace, the Beloved of his Lord,
the Superintendent of Treasurers, Meru.
Letters 1 3 cm. high. Fairly well carved with a chisel. Eisenlohr, p.
102, Pl. II, 11. 10—11; Petrie, No. 459; Bissing, p. 20, Beiblatt 4,
No. 17.
There is also a graffito, not carved by a professional sculptor, on a
low-lying boulder between this group of inscriptions and the small
stela, again naming “The Superintendent of Treasurers, Meru.”40
Other monuments of Meru are: (1) Tomb No. 240 at Deir el
Bahri,41 in which the inscriptions give his title as “Superintendent of
Treasurers,” and (2) a stela,42 probably from Abydos, to judge from
the inscriptions, and now in Turin. It is dated to the Year 46 of Neb-
hepet-ReL which was seven years later than the inscriptions of the
Shaft er Rigal. It names Meru’s father as Iku and his mother as
Ketety. His titles are given as “The Treasurer of the King of Lower
Egypt, the Sole Companion, and the Superintendent of Treasurers”
as in the Shaft er Rigal, and to them are added such complimentary
epithets as “He who has the Affection of his Lord” and “Beloved
and Praised of his Lord.”
40 Unsatisfactorily given by Petrie, No. 478. It is written in two vertical columns.
41 Lepsius (Denkmaler, II, Pl. 148) gives an incomplete drawing of the sarcophagus, omitting
the inscriptions which contain the title “Superintendent of Treasurers.”
42 Fabretti, Rossi, and Lanzone, Regio museo di Torino. Anlicbita egi^ie (1882-1888'), I,
p. 117. Bibliography in Gauthier, Livre des rois, I, p. 232.
THE MIDDLE KINGDOM IN THEBES
E. The King s Herald, a Familiar of the God, whose name is heard
by the South and the 'North, the Truly Beloved of his Lord, Ma-hesa,
son of Dagi, born of Nedjment.
Letters 15 cm. high. Well carved with a chisel. Eisenlohr, Pl. II,
1. 8; Petrie, No. 456; Bissing, No. 20. The signs smS and sw were
purposely injured in ancient times, as was the sw in the inscription
directly below (F) and in another to the left (K).
We do not know the names of the wife or of the son of the Vizier
Dagi whose tomb, No. 103, was bulilt in the reign of, and near the
temple of, Neb-hepet-ReF Therefore, we cannot surely identify the
Dagi of the above inscription with the vizier.
F. The True Familiar of the King, Governor of the Northland, Itu.
Letters 19 cm. high. Rather unskillfully designed and carved.
Eisenlohr, Pl. II, 1. 9; Petrie, No. 448; Bissing No. 20. The sign sw
was purposely injured in ancient times. See E and K.
G. The Treasurer of the King of Lower Egypt, the Sole Com-
panion, the Governor of the Eastern Deserts, to whom Princes come
salaaming at the Gate of the King s Palace, the Beloved of his Lord,
the Superintendent of Treasurers, Meru.
Letters 1 3 cm. high. Fairly well carved with a chisel. Eisenlohr, p.
102, Pl. II, 11. 10—11; Petrie, No. 459; Bissing, p. 20, Beiblatt 4,
No. 17.
There is also a graffito, not carved by a professional sculptor, on a
low-lying boulder between this group of inscriptions and the small
stela, again naming “The Superintendent of Treasurers, Meru.”40
Other monuments of Meru are: (1) Tomb No. 240 at Deir el
Bahri,41 in which the inscriptions give his title as “Superintendent of
Treasurers,” and (2) a stela,42 probably from Abydos, to judge from
the inscriptions, and now in Turin. It is dated to the Year 46 of Neb-
hepet-ReL which was seven years later than the inscriptions of the
Shaft er Rigal. It names Meru’s father as Iku and his mother as
Ketety. His titles are given as “The Treasurer of the King of Lower
Egypt, the Sole Companion, and the Superintendent of Treasurers”
as in the Shaft er Rigal, and to them are added such complimentary
epithets as “He who has the Affection of his Lord” and “Beloved
and Praised of his Lord.”
40 Unsatisfactorily given by Petrie, No. 478. It is written in two vertical columns.
41 Lepsius (Denkmaler, II, Pl. 148) gives an incomplete drawing of the sarcophagus, omitting
the inscriptions which contain the title “Superintendent of Treasurers.”
42 Fabretti, Rossi, and Lanzone, Regio museo di Torino. Anlicbita egi^ie (1882-1888'), I,
p. 117. Bibliography in Gauthier, Livre des rois, I, p. 232.