Lit. : « they were in the number of living men

2. Cette traduction a été publiée dans les Records ofthe Past, T' Ser., 1876, t. VI, p. 71-78.

myself in tlie Revue archéologique, 1873, t. XXV, p. 300- 315'. The engraved text in Mariette's Monuments Divers, pi. 9, contains some sliglit omissions and errors, wliich hâve been corrected by means of a paper impression in the Musée du Louvre.

This tablet rather unexpectedly confirais some statements of Diodorus, III, 5, about the Egyptian Kingdom of Ethiopia; it records at length the cérémonial used at the élection and coronation of an Ethiopian King. The cartouches in it hâve been purposely destroyed ; but the rest of the protocole exists, and proves the King to hâve been Rànierka Aspalut, the son of Queen Nensau. In the upper part of the Tablet^ King Aspalut is represented on his knee before Amen-râ. Behind the God^ the goddess Mut, Lady of Heaven, is saying to the King, I give thee ail Life and Power, ail Jotj for ever ! In front o| the monarch, Queen Nensau is shaking two sistra, and says the Royal Sister, royal Mother, Queen of Kush CNensau^I : « I came to thee, Amen-râ, Lord of the Seats ofboth Lands, great God {residing) in his shrine the destroyer, the one who giveth sirength unto him who is obedient unto him, that thou mayest establish firmly thy Son tohom thou lovest CAspalut]^ everliving, on the Suprême Seat ofRâ, so that he may be greater upon it than ail {t/ie Gods) and ail the Goddesses ; multiply thou his years of Life upon (earth), like unto Aten in heaven ; give thou into him Life and Power ail from thy self, Health ail from thyself, ail Joy from thyself, and the rising upon Hor's Seatfor ever. » To wliich prayer Amen-rà answcrs : (( Says Amen of Napata: « My son beloved, C Aspalut^. » I give thee the rising ofRâ, his Sovereignty upon his Seat! » I set the two Crowns firmly on thy head, even as heaven » isfîrni upon (ils) four pillars! Bc living, be prospering, )) keep renewing thyself and turning young again like Râ,