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126 THE MIDDLE KINGDOM IN THEBES
sought by making the scene and the characters actual ones. The
Thebans of the Twentieth Dynasty must have known the tomb of
King Ref-hotpe, and though it has up to the present defied dis-
covery, this story is sufficient evidence that it existed in the Necropo-
lis. Furthermore, as in the case of other royal tombs of the period,
this one seems to have been surrounded by those of the king’s
courtiers. It was into one of them, at “the place indicated, near the
tomb of King Ref-hotpe” that Khonsu-em-hab encountered the
ghost.
3. SEKHEM-REf WeP-MATET In-YOTEF THE ELDER. ABOUT 1655 B-c-
The length of no reign in the Sixteenth Dynasty is known to us
today, but King Ref-hotpe must have departed this life not so
many years from 1655 b.c., and his place was taken on the throne by
his son In-yotef, who had been born of a Great Royal Wife whose
name is now destroyed.1 The fact that the succession continued from
father to son at least as far as this shows us that, down to this point
anyway, the same family occupied the throne of Egypt.
We have only three names out of five from the new ruler’s titu-
lary: “The Horus Wep-mafet”—The Opener of Truth—“the King
of Upper and Lower Egypt Sekhem-Ref Wep-mafet”—The Image
of Ref Opening Truth—“the Son of Ref In-yotef the Elder.” His
other two names are not known, but these three were written on the
capstone of his pyramid.2 Here it seems that his name echoes the
phrase Sekhem-Ref in the prenomen of Sekhem-Ref Sewadj-towi
Sobk-hotpe who had done so much for Thebes in the Thirteenth
Dynasty, and the Two Goddesses name of Khaf-sekhem-Ref Nefer-
hotep—Wep-mafet—of the same period. To those of nearly any
other time in history these two Thirteenth Dynasty kings’ names
would mean nothing, but to a Sixteenth Dynasty ruler they loomed
large out of the fog into which the last kings of the united land had
sunk.
Nothing is to be learned from the little Karnak chamber of Thut-
mose HI, for in it has survived no prenomen for this ruler, though,
of course, we may take it that the scribe had in mind this third king
1 See below page 127.
5 B.M. 478; Burchardt and Pieper; Konigsnamen, p. 50; Winlock, JEA, 1924, p. 234.
sought by making the scene and the characters actual ones. The
Thebans of the Twentieth Dynasty must have known the tomb of
King Ref-hotpe, and though it has up to the present defied dis-
covery, this story is sufficient evidence that it existed in the Necropo-
lis. Furthermore, as in the case of other royal tombs of the period,
this one seems to have been surrounded by those of the king’s
courtiers. It was into one of them, at “the place indicated, near the
tomb of King Ref-hotpe” that Khonsu-em-hab encountered the
ghost.
3. SEKHEM-REf WeP-MATET In-YOTEF THE ELDER. ABOUT 1655 B-c-
The length of no reign in the Sixteenth Dynasty is known to us
today, but King Ref-hotpe must have departed this life not so
many years from 1655 b.c., and his place was taken on the throne by
his son In-yotef, who had been born of a Great Royal Wife whose
name is now destroyed.1 The fact that the succession continued from
father to son at least as far as this shows us that, down to this point
anyway, the same family occupied the throne of Egypt.
We have only three names out of five from the new ruler’s titu-
lary: “The Horus Wep-mafet”—The Opener of Truth—“the King
of Upper and Lower Egypt Sekhem-Ref Wep-mafet”—The Image
of Ref Opening Truth—“the Son of Ref In-yotef the Elder.” His
other two names are not known, but these three were written on the
capstone of his pyramid.2 Here it seems that his name echoes the
phrase Sekhem-Ref in the prenomen of Sekhem-Ref Sewadj-towi
Sobk-hotpe who had done so much for Thebes in the Thirteenth
Dynasty, and the Two Goddesses name of Khaf-sekhem-Ref Nefer-
hotep—Wep-mafet—of the same period. To those of nearly any
other time in history these two Thirteenth Dynasty kings’ names
would mean nothing, but to a Sixteenth Dynasty ruler they loomed
large out of the fog into which the last kings of the united land had
sunk.
Nothing is to be learned from the little Karnak chamber of Thut-
mose HI, for in it has survived no prenomen for this ruler, though,
of course, we may take it that the scribe had in mind this third king
1 See below page 127.
5 B.M. 478; Burchardt and Pieper; Konigsnamen, p. 50; Winlock, JEA, 1924, p. 234.