Uonit, Coptic oToii, « mound m
2. I bave restored the text from a passage in an inscription of Usirtasen III., where analogous raids are described (Lepsius, Denf.mâler, IL, pi. 136. Unes 14-16).
3. The expression is in-soldt-onkhu, literally « among tliose who had been struck alive ». It refers us to a barbarous mode of warfare in which no prisoners were taken except those who had been struck by the stone mace, — a weapon which serves as a determinative of the verb Hoku, — and wliom their wound must hâve left half dead on the battle-field. Tlioy were called « tlie living-stricken » in opposition to those who had been killed by the mace.
4. Terato is in its origin a nautical term, literally « to strike »>, « dash against the ground », borrowed from the manner vessels were handled on the Nile.
5. On this name, see Maspero, Notes, in Lepsius's Zciischri/Ï, 1883, p. 64, and Piehl, Varia, in the Zeiischrift, 1888, p. 111, who has not been able to read the characters composing the name. Ferhaps we may identify it, as Krall does {Sludien ^iir Grschichtc des Alton Âijijiptens, III., p. 22), with the name ol Tclmi met with in a text at Edfu (Diimichen, Tcinpclinsc/trift, I., pi. LXXIII., 1. 2, and Dir Oasen der libi/sc/ten Wiistc, pi. XVI. r), which Mrugsch (Reise nach der Grossen Oase, p. 92) does not know where to locate. If the identifi-
I attucked the coiists of this country to tlic iiortli of tlic eountrv ol' tlic IIihushâu; then this army being ou the mardi, I wcnt and overthrew tlicm ail, and I slow ail the rebels among tliem.
» When I was at the great House with the right of carrying the waiid and the sandals, the Pharaoh Mirinirî raade me governoi-general of the South, southward starting from Elephantinê (and) northward as far as the Letopolitan nome, because my wisdom pleased His Majesty, because my zeal pleased His Majesty, because the heart of His Majesty was satislicd with me : when then I was invested with the right of carrying the wand and the sandals, His Majesty favoured me therefore (giving me part of) the cattle intended for the palace; when I was in my place I was above ail liis peers, and ail his mameluks and ail his servants, and this dignity had ne,ver been conferred on any servant whatever before. I H lied to the satisfaction of the king my part of superintendent of the South, so as to be allowed to stand at his side second (in rank) to him, accomplishing ail the duties of an engineer, judging ail causes that there were to judge for the royal administration in this south of Kgypt, as second judge, at every hour appointed for judgment for the royal administration in this south of l^gyptas second judge; regulating as governor ail there was lo do in this south of Egypt, and never had anything like (this) taken phice in this south of Egypt before; and I did ail this to the satisfaction of His Majesty accordingly. His Majesty sent me to Abhaït', to bring back the sarcophagus (called) the Coft'er
cation is correct, \ve can conclude that Tebui, associated as it is with Amitand tlie iiortli-east of Eg^pt, was a canton situated beyond Lake Menzaleh; the expédition oi' Uni would hâve been made on the iake, not on the sea. Possibly there may aiso be a reiereuce to the arm of the sea which extended to the Bitter Lakes.
1. A locality in the vicinty of Assuân, where tliere were quarries of gray granité.
of the Li\ ing, with its lid, us well as tlie true and precious
pyi'iuiiidioii of tlio pynunid ((•alled) « KiiÂNOPiit mistress of Miiiiiiri ». llis Majcsty sent me U) Kleimiantink to briiig a stèle in tlic forin of u false door, together willi its base of granité [for the passage of tlie pyramid], (and) to bring ba(;k the gâtes and the thresliolds of the exterior chapel of tlie pyramid « Khânofir mistress of Miriniri ». I returned with them to the pyramid Khânofir of Miriniri in si.x galliots, three pontoons, three barges (and) a man of war, — never had there been a man of war at Abhaït or at Elephantinê; so ail things4hat His Majesty had ordered me (to do) were accomplished fiiUy as His Majesty had ordered them. Ilis Majesty sent me to IIatnuuu' to transport a large table of otïerings of alabaster. I brought tliis table of olïerings dovvn [from the mountain] : as it was impossible in IIat- NUBU to despatch (it) along the course of the current in this galliot, I eut a galliot out of the wood of the acaciasont, 00 cubits long and 30 cubits broad ; I embarked the 17th day of the third montli of Sliomu, and although there was no water over the sand-banks of the river I reached the pyramid Khânofir of Miriniri prosperously ; I was there with [the table of offerings] without fail according to the order which the majesty of my lord had deigned to command mo. ilis Majesty sent me to excavate hvc channels (?) in the Soulli and to constriu-t three galliots and four pontoons of acacia-sont of Uauait; now the negro princes of the countries of Arotit, Uauait, Aamu, (and) Maza felled the wood for that purpose, and I accomplished it ail in only one year, the transportation to the water and the loading of large quantitics of granité for the pyramid Khânofir of Miriniri"; and moreover I caused a palace to be con-
1. Tlio uiodern Baïuib el-IIainiuâin, wliere there are quanies of niai-ble on the right bank ot the Nilo in tlie neiglibourhood of Siut (Bi'ugsch, Historji of E'ji/pi, 2d eclit., vol. I., p. 121).
2. Thèse blocks of granité are probably those whieh slill obslruct the
structed for each of thèse five cliunnels (?), because I venerate, because I exalt, because I adore above ail the gods, the soûls of the king Mirinirî, living for ever, because I hâve been (raised) above everything according to the order of which bis double lias given unto me, even to me who am the beloved of lus father, tlie lauded of lus mother, the magnate in bis city, the delighter of his brethren, the governor in actual command of the South, the vassal of Osmis, Uni. «
passage of the pyramid of Mirinirî (Maspero, La Pyramide de Mirinri I", in the Recueil de Travaux, vol. IX., p. 179).
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(TWENTY-FIRST DYNASTY)'
King Smendes, tlie founder of the twenty-first Tanite Dynasty, has long cluded the researches of the Egyptologists. It is only three years ago that M. Daressy, assistantconservator of the Muséum at Cairo, had the good fortune to discover a monument belonging to him. Ile at once published the text and a translation of it under the title of Les Carrières de Gébéléin et le roi Smendès, in the Recueil de Travaux relatifs à la PInlologie et à l'Archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes, t. X, pp. 133-138.
Dababieh, opposite to Gebelein, some miles above Thebes, and on the right bank of the Nile, is the place where lie made the discovery. Quarries exist there of considérable extent and of very hard sandstone, which is as serviceable to the sculpter as to the builder ; some of the quarries are open to the sky, others consist of large chambers excavated in the rock. In one place, on a rock-cut pillur which had been left at the entrance of the quarry, a tablet occurs in which Seti I. déclares that he had sent workmen to the city of Ilathor, that is to say, to Gebelein. in order to extract the stone in large quantities for « the temple of Millions of Years of Menmârî (otherwise, of himself), which is on the
1. Publié dans les Records of the Pasi, second Séries, vol. V, p. 17-24.
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west of Thebes ». Tins temple is that at Qurnah, and tlic inscription thus allows us to détermine tlie spot from which a portion of the materials used in its construction had been broLight. The quarry continued to be worked in Gneco- Roman times, as is proved by the (ji-ajjiti copied in it by A. II. Sayce, and published by him under the title of Inscriptions grecques d'Egypte, in the Revue des Études grecques, IV, pp. 46-48'.
In the quarry situated about 30 yards to the soutli of tliat in which the tablet of Seti I. was found, the inscription of Smendes is engraved on a large stèle in beautifully formed characters. The stèle occupies the northern face of a column at the entrance of the quarry. About a third of the text at the commencement and about half of it towards the end has been destroyed by searchers for treasure. What remains is similar in appearance to the stèle of Shishak I. and Auputi at Gebel-Silsileh. Above the stèle the solar disk expands its wings, flanked on the right by a vertical band which contains the words : « The good god, master of the two worlds, master of ail action, Uzkhopirri Sotpunirî, son of the Sun, master of diadems, Nsbindidi Miamum. » The band on the left, which has disappeared, probably contained the same legend.
Under the winged disk is a double scène of adoration. On the right the king Nsbindidi Miamun rnakes an otîering to Amonrà, « the god from whom is derived Ihc Ennead of tlie two Egypts, the god who was at the moment of création, » as well as to Khonsu tlie master of Truth. On the left the ofifering was made to Amon the lord of Karnak,
1. The Greek (jra/Jjli are four in number. One of them is dated in the reign of Antouinus Severus Caracalla, another in the « first year » of the joint reign of Elagabalus and Alexander Severus (A.D. 221) a tliiid in the « llth year » of Alexander Severus (A.D. 232). The latter is dedicated to « Priôtos, the greatest god, and Oregebthis and Isis Resakemis and the greatest gods with them ».
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aiul to a diviiiily now destroyed, wlio was probably Mut. The inscription comprises 17 Unes running from right to left. The two first contain the fiill protocol of thc king, which it i.s necdlcss to translate hère; the important part of the text begins in the third line.
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