Lit. : « who is upon his waler

)) tliee Never (failed) tlie word issued from out

» his mouth, o King, ourLord! » Af ter tlie liereditary Prince of Pa-subti, Paqrur, had risen to speak, lie said : « Thou » smitest whom thou likest to, thou causest to Uve whom

)) thou likest to » Then they answered him (ail) at

once, saviiiCT : « Grant us ail the breatli of Life;there is no » living of the man who does not know him. Let us serve )) him, like people subjected to him, even as thou hast » said, the first time, the day thou becamest a King! » The heart of His Majesty was rejoicedafter heheard this speech, he gave them bread, béer, ail kind of good things.

A great many days after that, they said : « Why

» do we remain hère, o King our Lord? » Said His Majesty, saying: a Why? )) They said before His Majesty: « Let us go to our towns; let us order our men, that (we )) may briug) our tributes to (thy town) ! » His Majesty sent them to their towns with life safe^; the men of the South went down (the river), the men of the North sailed up to the spot where His Majesty was, with ail kind of good things of the Southern Lands, and ail the produces of the Northern Lands, to soften the heart of His Majesty, being the King of Upper and Lower Countries Râbaka, Son of the Sun Nuat (Mei) amoun, L. h. s., rising upon the seatof Hor, for ever.

§ IL — Stèle ofthe Coronation^.

This Stèle was found at Gebel-Barkal and brought to Egypt by order of the Khédive : the inscription was analysed by Mariette-Bey in the Revue archéologique, 1865, t. XII, p. 169-174, then translated and commented upon by