Tat-f-Phtah 10. Au-f-Ankh, Justified

The personage hère designated by the name of Aaha Tat-f-Pthah-au-f-Ankh (that is to say, Aaha, who is called Pthah-au-f-Ankh) is undonbtedly identical with a prince of the same name whose mummy was discovered in 1881, in the tornb of the priest-kings at Dayrel-Baharee, and whose relies are thns described in Professor Maspero's address to the Orientalist Congress at Berlin: —

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Orientalisten-Congresses: Afrikanisclie Section: p. 21.)

To this identification it may be objected that the Aaha of the papyrus is styled Second Prophet I I y I of Amen, whereas the Aaha of Professor Maspero's address is only Third Prophet. But, althougb ranked as Second Prophet in the hieroglyphed Introduction to the présent papyrus, our pei'sonage stands as Third Prophet in the hieratic text which follows. We are therefore free to conclude that he was actually | y , Third Prophet; and that the higher dignity ascribed to him in the sixth Introductory column is a clérical error on the part of the scribe.

There remains the question of bis parentage. In the papyrus, he is called «Royal Son of the Lord of the Two Lands». Upon the sarcophagi he is styled, firstly «Royal Son of Rameses » ; secoudly « Royal Son of the Lord of the two Lands » . It is unfortunate that the cartouche of this Rameses should nowhere hâve been given, as without it we bave no certain means of determining Prince Aaha's place in the bistory of the period. In Professor Maspero's Officiai Report, «La trouvaille de Deïr-el-Bahari», it is further stated that upon the leatber bands of the mummy of the «Royal Son of Rameses» is stamped the name of «WouAPOuT», First Prophet of Amen, under whose pontificate the interraent of Aaha Tat-f Pthah-au-f-Ankh would therefore seem to bave taken place. Professor Maspero hence concludes that this prince must bave been buried in the Her-Hor vault during the reign of Shishak I, at the commencement of the Bubastite Dynasty. If so, bis father — a descendant of the old Ramesside line — would bave been Lord of the two Lands by courtesy only. Or, as it seems to me with even greater probabiHty, Aaha Tat-f Pthah-au-f-Ankh may bave been a son of one the last rois fainéants of the XX''' Dynasty; in which case bis wrappings and leatber bands may possibly bave been renewed, and bis mummy removed from some other tomb to this safer resting- place, under the auspices of Wouapoct in the reign of Shishak I. The fact that one, at least, of the sarcophagi in which this prince's mummy reposed had been originally made for another occupant, is, I venture to tbink, in favour of this suggestion.

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The name of our personuge does not seem to liave been uncominon towards the close of the Her-Hor dynasty and duriug the rule of the Bubastites. A younger son of Takei.oth II, it will be remembered, was not ouly the namesake of Prince Aaha, but was likewise a Third Prophet of Amen. Dr. Brugsch also notes a prince of this name.

That the présent papyrus was abstracted from the mummy-case of Aaha Tat-f-Phtah

au-f-Ankh while yet the secret of the Dayr-el-Baharee vault remained undiscovered, cannot

be questioned. The document is the property of Miss Brocklehurst, of Danebridge, near

Macclesfield. It was purchased by that lady from the brothers Abd-er-Rasoul at Thebes, in

1874; beiug then but partially unrolled, and enclosed in an Osirian statuette of sycamore

wood, stained black, and of good workmanship.

Amelia B. Edwards.