BRITISH SCHOOL OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN EGYPT
AND EGYPTIAN RESEARCH ACCOUNT
FOURTEENTH YEAR, 1908
MEMPHIS I
BY
W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE
Hon. D.C.L., LL.D., Litt.D., Ph.D.
F.R.S., F.B.A., Hon. F.S.A. (Scot.)
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY
MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTHROPOLOGY, BERLIN
MEMBER OF THE ROMAN SOCIETY OF ANTHROPOLOGY
MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF NORTHERN ANTIQUARIES
MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
EDWARDS PROFESSOR OF EGYPTOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
WITH A CHAPTER BY
Dr. J. H. WALKER
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more suitable that support should be given to a British School in that land. This body is
the only such agency, and is also the basis of the excavations of Prof. Flinders Petrie, who
has had many students associated with his work in past years. The great enterprise of the
excavation of the temples and city of Memphis, which has now been undertaken, promises
the most valuable results. But it will necessarily be far more costly than any other work
in Egypt, and it cannot be suitably carried out without increasing the present income of the
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
SECT.
i. Circumstances of the work .
CHAPTER I
THE RECORDED TEMPLES OF MEMPHIS.
PI. I
2. Size of the city
3. Its history
4. The temple of Ptah.
5. The temple of Apis
6. Temples of Hathor, Neit, etc.
7. The temple of Proteus and the foreigners
8. Temples of Osiris, Khnum, etc.
9. Other foreign settlements
10. Outline of excavations ....
CHAPTER II
THE WEST HALL OF PTAH.
11. State of the site. PI. II
12. The skew front
CHAPTER IV
PAGE
I
THE MONUMENTS. XIXth DYNASTY.
SECT. FAGS
23-
Foundation deposit. PI. XIX . . . 8
24.
False doors. PI. XX .
8
25-
Views of West Hall. PI. XXI
9
26.
Detail of West Hall. PI. XX 1 1
9
I
27.
Colossi. PL XXIII
10
2
28.
Reliefs. PI. XXIV
10
2
29.
Columns. PI. XXV .
10
3
30.
Inscriptions. PI. XXVI
10
3
3
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Plans. PI. XXVII
10
4
4
CHAPTER V
4
13. The colossi 5
14. The passages and walls 6
CHAPTER III
THE MONUMENTS. XVIIIth DYNASTY AND EARLIER.
15. Gateway of Ranuser, etc. PI. Ill
16. Lintel of Tetu
17. Lotus capitals
18. Altar and endowment stele. Pis. IV, V, VI
19. Small tablets. Pis. VII, VIII, IX
20. Ear tablets. Pis. X, XI, XII, XIII .
21. Other tablets. Pis. XIV, XV, XVI, XVII .
22. Altar and statuettes. Pis. XVIII, XIX
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6
6
6
7
7
THE TEMPLE OF MERENPTAH.
32. Condition of remains .
33. The court. PI. XXVII
34. The town around .
35. The small objects. Pi. XXVIII .
CHAPTER VI
THE LATER ANTIQUITIES.
36. Small objects. Pis. XXVIII, XXIX
37. Great gate of camp
38. Building of Siamen, etc.
39. Breccia statue. Pis. XXXI, XXXII
40. Stele and stone-working. PI. XXXIII
41. Scarabs. PI. XXXIV .
42. Late sculpture. PI. XLV
43. Blue-glazed pottery. Pis. XLVI— L
44. Objects from Athribis. Pis. LI, LI I
45. Inscriptions from Rifeh, etc. Pis. LI II, LI V
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER VII
THE TERRA-COTTA HEADS.
SECT. PAGE
46. Date of the heads 15
47. Egyptians. PI. XXXV .... 16
48. Persians and Syrian. PL XXXVI . 16
49. Babylonians, etc. Pis. XXXVII, XXXVIII 16
50. Indians. PL XXXIX 17
51. Scythians. PL XL 17
52. Greeks, etc. Pis. XLI— XLIV . .17
CHAPTER VIII
THE INSCRIPTIONS.
By DR. J. H. WALKER.
SECT. PAGE
53. Endowment stele. PL V . . . .18
54. XVIIIth dynasty stele. PL VI . .18
55. Ptah steles. Pis. VIII— XVII ... 19
56. Altar of Amenhotep. PL XVIII . . 20
57. Inscriptions of Ramessu II. PL XXVI 20
58. Breccia statue. PL XXXII . .20
59. Coptic inscriptions. Pis. LII — LIV . .21
Index 23
LIST OF PLATES
WITH PAGE REFERENCES TO THE DESCRIPTIONS
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
XIV.
XV.
XVI.
XVII.
XVIII.
XIX.
XX.
XXI.
XXII.
XXIII.
XXIV.
XXV.
XXVI.
XXVII.
XXVIII.
PAGE
Sketch plan of Memphis . . . 1-4
Plans of West Hall . . . . 5, 6
Sculptures. Vth — Vlth dynasties . 6
Granite altar of Uah-ka. Xllth
dynasty ? 6
Endowment stele. XI I th dynasty 6, 7, 1 7, 1 8
Quartzite stele. XVIIIth dynasty 7, 18
Tablets of Tahutmes I and IV
,, „ „ IV .
Ear tablets. XVIIIth dynasty
Tablets with one and two ears
„ „ two to five ears
„ „ four to ten ears
„ „ many ears
„ ofPtah .
„ „ Ptah and gods .
„ „ Amen and private
Tablet of Huy .
Altar of Amenhotep .
Foundation deposits, and Ray
Tahutmes IV pots, false doors, etc.
Temple of Ptah, views
„ parts of West Hall
„ statues and bases .
„ head of Ptah, etc. .
Pieces of columns
Pieces of sculpture .
Plans of Merenptah temple, etc
7, 19
7, 18, 19
7. 19
7, 19
7, 19
7, 19
7> 19
8, 19
8, 19
8, 20
8, 20
8, 20
8
. 8
• 9
9
• 9
10
. 10
10, 20
. 10
Small.objects, Merenptah temple, etc. 11,12
XXIX.
XXX.
XXXI.
XXXII.
XXXIII.
XXXIV.
XXXV.
XXXVI.
XXXVII.
XXXVIII.
XXXIX.
XL.
XLI.
XLII.
XLIII.
XLIV.
XLV.
XLVI.
XLVII.
XLVIII.
XLIX.
L.
LI.
LII.
LIU.
LIV.
Jamb of Merenptah, etc.
Small plans
Siamen lintel, Hap-amu .
Inscription of Hap-amu .
Stele and trial-pieces, etc.
Scarabs ....
PAGE
11, 12
. 12
12, 13
13.20
• 13
• 13
Terra-cotta Heads
Egyptian
Persian .
Babylonian
Unknown foreigners
Indian
Scythian .
Italian and Greek
Classical Greek
» >i
Rude figures .
Head of Physkon, stone-working,
etc 14
Pottery about 300 B.C. ... 14
and lamps . 14
Pottery found with lamps . .14
Glazed pottery and kiln . . 14, 15
Forms of glazed pottery . . -IS
Athribis, small objects . . -IS
„ Coptic pottery . . 15, 21
Coptic inscriptions . . . 15. 2I
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Vll
MEMPHIS I
INTRODUCTION
I. The work at Memphis stands on a footing
different from any previous excavations of mine. A
season is only time enough to sample various parts
of such a site, and no subject there can be worked
out in less than two or three years. To clear the
temple sites alone would take probably twenty years,
as it is only possible to work for a few weeks after
the water has subsided. But the rapidly increasing
difficulties, owing to the constant and unchecked
appropriation of the site by the peasantry, make it
all the more urgent to take the place in hand as
soon as we can. I long hesitated about this excava-
tion. Two years ago Prof. Maspero suggested it to
me, and the next year Sir William Garstin urged the
desirability of it. At last the position of the British
School of Archaeology seemed so solid that we ven-
tured to attack so large a work. But it will need a
considerable budget, owing to the cost of labour on
such a scale, and the difficulties of private ownership.
As we hope to be for many years on the site
during the spring months (minor excavations else-
where will occupy the winters), it was needful to
build quarters raised well above the damp soil.
Mr. Ward and Herr Schuler accordingly went there
on Jan. 3 to begin building, and I followed on
Jan. 26 ; before the middle of February our quarters
were finished amid the rain, mud, and fogs which
abound at that time of year. Our excavations
started at the end of January, and went on till the
first week in May. Mr. Ward took charge of the
Merenptah temple, and other work to the south.
Mr. Mackay attended to the Ptah temple and the
great fort. Herr Schuler did some surveying. Mr.
Wainwright drew many of the plates here published,
and Mr. Gregg planned the small temple. Alto-
gether about three months of full work was spent
on the place, and a fair beginning of this great
undertaking was well started. I have to thank
Miss Herford for inking in several plates of pencil
drawings.
CHAPTER I
THE RECORDED TEMPLES OF MEMPHIS.
2. IN beginning to examine so great a city as
Memphis, it is needful to glean all the information
we can from ancient authorities for our guidance.
References in the inscriptions, and the account by
Herodotos, are nearly all that remain to help us.
Diodoros mainly copied from Herodotos, and only
yields a few further points ; and Strabo is un-
fortunately very brief about Memphis.
The whole size of the city is stated to have been
150 stadia in circumference (Diod. i, iv) ; if Greek
stadia, this equals \"j\ miles. But as the delta is
described as being 750 stadia at the side, and 1300
along the sea (lengths of about 120 and 210 miles),
this would imply the use of a stadium of just
500 cubits of 20-6 inches. If this Egyptian measure
was used, the 1 50 would equal 24! miles. The plain
was about 4 miles wide, so the two ends of the city
would be 8 miles, leaving either 9 or 16 miles for the
sides, according to the stadium used, making it 4! or
8 miles long. The latter is apparently correct ; the
length of the cemeteries along the desert suggests
about 8 miles for the city, from Dahshur to the
north of Abusir. The south side was probably at
a fortress, now Kafr el Qala', opposite Dahshur ; and
the north side would then be at the group of villages
by El Manawat. This would be the size of northern
London from Bow to Chelsea, and from the Thames
up to Hampstead. Probably a large part of this
area consisted of gardens and fields belonging to the
various villages, which were agglomerated to form
the capital, like the component villages and towns
of London.
1
THE RECORDED TEMPLES OF MEMPHIS
3. The history of this capital of Egypt extends
from the first king to the last Roman emperor.
Menes founded Memphis ; and the Roman governor,
John Makaukas, signed the capitulation to the Arabs
in its palace. From the beginning to the end of
Egyptian history, Memphis was the great centre of
civilisation, government and trade. For a few cen-
turies Thebes shared its importance, and it was
eclipsed at the last by Alexandria, but those cities
are only episodes in the six thousand years of
national life.
In such a centre it was natural that the gods of
many different cities should have a home, and the
temples of nineteen gods are mentioned in various
sources. The oldest object of worship was probably
the bull Apis, a part of the veneration of animals
which preceded the higher theistic ideas. The temple
of Apis was therefore the primitive settlement of the
place. But it was eclipsed by the great establishment
of Ptah, which occupied as large a space as the
enclosure of the temple of Amen at Karnak.
4. The position of the temple of Ptah is certain,
as his statues have been found in the West Hall
(PL I), and the boundaries of his temenos have been
traced on all sides during the past winter. In
referring to the sketch map here provided, it should
be stated that it is mainly copied from the map of
Lepsius (Denkmdler, i, 9) as that shews the mounds
when more complete than at present ; but the
temenos of Ptah is inserted from recent measure-
ments plotted on to the government survey of the
fields. When more is known, an exact survey of
the whole site will be prepared, but it is useless to
make that until the ancient constructions are dis-
covered.
Several different parts of the temple of Ptah are
mentioned by Herodotos. The first building of the
temple is attributed to Menes (H. ii, 99). Next
Asychis "built the eastern propylaia to the temple
of Ptah, which is far the most beautiful and the
largest : for all the propylaia have sculptured figures,
and other styles of buildings, but this by far the
most" (H. ii, 136). This king succeeded Menkaura
of the IVth, and preceded Nitaqert of the Vlth
dynasty ; he is probably Aseskaf of the IVth dynasty.
The fine reliefs of the IVth dynasty are what would
be appreciated by a Greek of the age of Pheidias ;
and this description shews that such sculpture was
still existing down to the Persian age, and therefore
may yet be found. The eastern front would naturally
be built first as being the usual entrance to a temple
from the river. This may have been the forecourt
added on to the first building of Menes.
Next we read that Moiris (Amenemhat III) built
the propylaia on the north (H. ii, 101). This was
probably where XII is marked on the map (PI. I),
as large blocks of red granite are lying about there,
and an entrance more to the east would only open
on to the lake.
In the XlXth dynasty we read of a statue
of Sety I (Breasted, Records, iii, 260). Sesostris
(Ramessu II) is said to have brought great stones
to the temple (H. ii, 108), and to have built a
forecourt on the north, and a temple in the midst
of the temenos (B. Rec. iii). In front of the temple
he placed two statues of thirty cubits of himself and
his wife, and others of his four sons, each of twenty
cubits (H. ii, no). One of these is doubtless the
well-known colossus, the place of which is marked
on the map. So the main entrance during the
Persian age must have been that to the south.
Ramessu III built a new temple in the court,
of granite below and limestone above, and its door-
ways of granite. He made a monolith shrine of
granite containing the triad of Ptah, Sekhmet and
Nefertum ; and he made a new image, and new
sacred bark for the processions. Also he rebuilt
the ruined temples (Harris Pap.). Rhampsinitos
built the propylaia facing west, the " West Hall "
of the map, and set two statues before it twenty-five
cubits high (H. ii, i2i). The base of one of these
statues is visible now.
Psametek I built the propylaia facing the south
(H. ii, 153). This is probably where XXVI is
marked on the plan, as colossi are known to be
buried there, and it would be probable that the
work of the XXVIth dynasty would stand in
advance of that of the XlXth. Aahmes placed a
colossus in front of the temple, which Herodotos
saw lying face up ; it was seventy-five feet long.
Upon the same base stood two colossi each twenty
feet high (H. ii, 176). These we should expect to
have been south of the XXVI propylaia.
Lastly we find that Ptolemy IV built the
propylaia of red granite at the eastern entrance,
the dedication of which we partly recovered.
Thus we have seen that though Herodotos divided
his statements into their historical positions, yet he
has preserved his notes of a circuit round all the
gates of the temenos of Ptah ; though he did not —
and probably could not — describe anything that was
inside the sacred enclosure. Incidentally Strabo
GATES AND TEMPLE-SITES OF MEMPHIS
mentions a great hypostyle hall at Memphis (XVII,
i, 21). We learn that the sanctuary of Ptah was
included in the White Wall (B.D.G. 725), shewing
that probably the fortification included the temples
of Apis, Ptah, and the camp. And the temple of
Ptah is stated to have been south of the sacred lake
(B. Rec. iii, 223), which was named Ater (B.D.G. 85).
This authorises our placing the sacred lake in the
low ground between the Ptah temenos and the camp.
Such a position is the more likely, as the sacred lake
was the brickpit, whence all the enormous quantity
of bricks were dug, for the thick walls, and for the
great artificial hill of the fort. So it would naturally
be between the two main sites of building, while it
thus added a water defence on this side of the camp.
5. The position of the temple of Apis is the
next point of importance. Could that be recovered,
we might trace a pre-Menite occupation of the site.
We read that Psametek when he built his southern
propylaia "made an aule (or open court) for Apis,
in which he is fed whenever he appears, built opposite
to the propylaia, surrounded with a peristyle and
full of figures. In place of pillars are colossi of twelve
cubits in the court" (H. ii, 153). This distinctly
places the temple of Apis opposite to the propylaia
of Psametek, and therefore farther south. Strabo
states that the temple of Apis was near the temple
of Ptah ; in front of the sanctuary of Apis was a
court where he was exhibited, and in the court
another sanctuary for the dam of Apis (S. xvii. i, 31).
To the south is marked on the map the presumed
site. This ground is abnormally low, like that of
the Ptah temenos, shewing that it was a sacred site
not occupied by successive houses ; and it has the
same system of modern fields shewing that the
central part was all taken under cultivation at one
time, and not gradually encroached upon, as it was
round the edges. I have not succeeded in finding
the river approach to it along the eastern side.
Perhaps the building of Siamen may lead us to some
connection. Pa-hennu is the name of the Serapeum
of Memphis (B.D.G. 1257). The temple of Apis was
much favoured by Ptolemy V (Rosetta inscription,
1- 33).
6. The Hathor temple lay to the south, in the
time of Ramessu III, and the bark of Ptah went
to it by water (Harris Pap.). It was at Nehat, called
from the sacred sycomore of the goddess (Pap. Sail.
4, verso p. 1 ; B.D.G. 1222), and it is named by
Strabo (xvii, i, 31).
The temple of Neit seems to have been to the
north of the camp ; for as Ptah is said to be south
of the fortress, so Neit is said to be north of the
fortress. The sign usually translated wall, is clearly
shaped as a fortress-plan in the best examples, as
on PI. XXXII. The ground to the north of the camp
(see map) was a mass of mounds and ruins in the
time of Lepsius ; but, like so much of the site, it
has been appropriated by the cultivators and is now
all covered with crops.
The temple of Amen is mentioned (B. Rec. iii,
530) ; and the only indication of its position is our
finding in the south-west corner of the Ptah temenos
a fragment of colossal upright feathers, like those
worn by Amen. This suggests that his colossus was
not far off.
Imhotep was worshipped in a temple, apparently
at the Asklepion of Greek times, near Abusir (B.D.G.
1098).
Isis had a spacious temple built by Aahmes
(H. ii, 176) ; and Diodoros — who is a poor authority
— states that it was in the grove of Ptah (D. i, 2).
Whether that means in the temenos of Ptah is
doubtful.
7. The temenos of King Proteus, in the Tyrian
camp or foreign quarter, is described by Herodotos
as " mightily beautiful and well furnished, lying to
the south of the temple of Ptah. Round about the
temenos dwell the Phoenician Tyrians, and the whole
place is called the Tyrian camp. In this temenos
of Proteus is a temple called after the foreign Aph-
rodite" (H. ii. 112). He then unhappily spends four
pages about Helen and the Trojan war, where a
few lines more of topography would have been price-
less to us. We have already seen that the propylaia
of Psametek, and the court of Apis, are said to be
south of the temple of Ptah ; we cannot then look
due south for the temple of Proteus. But south of
the entrance to the Ptah temenos, at the Kom el
Qala' is a region strewn with early Greek pottery
of the Vllth century onward, and bounded by a great
wall to the south. Here is the locality, then, best
agreeing with the description of the foreign camp.
In this ground a great lintel was found two years
ago, during the clearances by the sebakh diggers
and covered over after Mr. Quibell had photographed
it. Here we dug down, and saw a great gateway
in position, sculptured by Merenptah. Clearing in-
wards to the north of it, we opened the larger part
of a forecourt, 120 feet long by about 100 feet wide ;
with a doorway of Merenptah at the north end,
evidently leading further to a temple (see chap. v).
THE RECORDED TEMPLES OF MEMPHIS
Proteus came between Ramessu II and III, though
his exact identification may not be clear ; and he
lived a little before the Trojan war, which we know
was correlated with the reign of Tausert The date of
Merenptah agrees well with the period indicated by
Herodotos. The foreign Aphrodite whose temple
was here would be the Egyptian Hathor ; and in
the court of Merenptah we found the only known
Memphite tablets of Hathor (PL XXVIII). Thus by
the general position in the city, by the early Greek
pottery, by the date of the temple, by the Hathor
tablets, and by many pieces of prehistoric foreign
pottery found here, it seems clear that we have the
temple of Proteus before us. It will be excavated
next season.
8. Osiris-Sokar had a temple here, in a place
named Aper (Mariette, Abydos, i, 46), otherwise named
Bahti or Fat (Mar. Ab. i, 48a); also in Ankh-taui,
a quarter of Memphis, where the nebes and sont
trees grew (De Roug£, Edfou, cxliii). How far these
names refer to one temple is not known. Sokar is
probably a very early god, and we should look for
his shrine near the Apis region.
Khnum was worshipped in a temple near Memphis
at Uafet (B.D.G. 146), and his sacred ram at Hatut
(B.D.G. 175). The latter might be the name of the
shrine only, in the place named Uafet.
Bast had a temple at Pa-penat {Mon. Div. 34^) ;
and Sekhmet was at Fuat (B.G.D. 240), though
probably also worshipped with Ptah in his temple.
Tahuti had a temple built by Ramessu II. (Br.
Rec. iii, 224). The Aten was adored here (Rouge,
Inscr. 54), and blocks of the work of Akhenaten
were found by Sir Chas. Nicholson and others. The
temple of the Kabiri was entered by Cambyses, who
burnt their images ; who the Kabiri were we cannot
say, but they are described as being sons of Ptah,
and like him (H. iii, 37), Apparently there was a
shrine of Anubis, as we read of "the road of Anpu "
(B.D.G. 1 108). The principal long road remaining,
is that paved with red granite through Kom en
Nawy, leading to the limestone temple (see building
east of sacred lake, PI. XXVII); possibly this might
be the temple of Anubis. There is also an allusion
to Sebek, as the " Wall of Sebek " is named in the
Harris papyrus.
We have now some clue to the number of temples
that remain to be found in this great capital. There
were doubtless many other chapels and dependencies
which have escaped record.
9. Not only was there a foreign settlement at the
Kom el Qala', but farther north there seems to have
been another. Prof. Sayce informed me of an inscrip-
tion naming a settlement of the Hittites, described
as north of the temple of Ptah, south of the temple
of Tahutmes I and IV, and on the west of the
mound which lay east of those temples. As the
direct north of the Ptah temenos seems to have been
occupied by the lake, we look north of the approach,
to the Kom en Nawy. There is a quantity of granite
building of late date, re-using red granite blocks of
Amenemhat II and Aahmes-Si-Neit, at about T on
the Kom. If this were the site of the temple of
Tahutmes, then the Kom would be east of the temple,
and the Hittite region might be about H, south of
the temple, west of the Kom, and north of the Ptah
temenos, as described. Such seems the most likely
site to agree with all these data. It is stated to be
1 54 set in area. The set is supposed by Lepsius to
be either 40 cubits or roo cubits in the side (Brugsch,
Aegyptologie, 373). If of the lesser size, the 154 set
would be about two-thirds the area of Kom en Nawy,,
a very possible size for a foreign settlement.
Another foreign settlement is supposed to be
indicated by the name Pa-ta-yaht, the land of Yah,
or the Jews' quarter, of Roman age (B.D.G. 138).
It is to be expected that the foreign quarters should
be along the east side, nearest to the river, as
commerce was their purpose.
10. The other parts of the site shewn in the map
(PI. I) are not connected with any description that
we can trace. Our exploratory work was at various
points. Those already named, or described farther
on, are as follows : — the Great Gate and eastern line
of the camp ; at T, where some blocks were found
under the palms ; around all sides of the Ptah
temenos ; at the eastern entrance of Ptolemy IV ;
at the Temple of Merenptah ; along the east side
of the Apis site ; on the west side, finding the Siamen
building ; south of Kom Helul for the pottery kilns ;
and at the West Hall and the pond. Other work
not here described was a trial on the fort. The
structure of that mound was settled to have been
like that of the forts of Naukratis, Defenneh, and
Pithom — a cellular platform to support buildings
above it. A portion of a court on the top contained
a fragment of an immense column of white limestone,
with the cartouche of Apries, shewing that one of
the palaces was of the XXVIth dynasty. The
mound has been added to largely on the north face
by extra walling. We tried to reach a corner deposit
at the N.W., but were stopped by water. Some
FOREIGN SETTLEMENTS AND PLAN OF WEST HALL
s
clearing was done in the camp, but fruitlessly. Thus
we have tested many parts of the site in the first
season, besides thoroughly clearing part of the West
Hall and Merenptah temple. We see how great an
amount there is to be done, even without displacing
any of the cultivation, or removing any of the palms
which cover so much of the government land. If
any efficient control of the site were allowed, much
more might be done by stopping the planting of
more palms which is constantly going on. Probably
little of the ground will be unoccupied in the future,
and we only regret that so much of it has been
appropriated in the last few generations. To recover
what we yet can trace is the first duty of archaeology
in Egypt.
CHAPTER II
THE WEST HALL OF PTAH.
II. At various times in the last fifty years ex-
cavations have been made by the Egyptian govern-
ment on the region where buildings remain above
the cultivation, at the western entrance to the temenos.
The two great statues of Ptah were found here, as well
as other remains. But the extent of the official work
did not reach the floor of the Ramesside building in
many parts, nor extend below that structure in any
part ; and the only plan did not take account of the
curious skew of the pylon front, nor of the many
peculiar adjustments resulting from that, which are
shewn on the plan, PI. II.
In our work about forty or fifty feet was cleared
in front of the pylon, as far as the palms allowed ;
thus the bases of the colossi were cleared, and the
remains of the statues. The body of the south half of
the pylon was cleared over, down to unmoved stone-
work. The hall was cleared over all the southern
half, and part of the northern. The northern half
of the pylon and hail were not much worked, as it
was more destroyed, and previous excavation had
gone lower there, so there was not as much to dis-
cover, until we may go below the Ramesside level.
In this plan continuous outlines show existing parts,
and broken outlines indicate probable restorations.
The columns in the hall shew an unusual arrange-
ment. We know of an axial avenue of large columns
amid a field of lesser ones at Karnak. But here there
is a colonnade of lesser columns around three sides
and a field of sixteen large columns in the middle.
Doubtless, as at Karnak, the larger columns were
taller, and carried a raised roof with a clerestory
around it.
12. The reason for the skew front will be seen
in the map, PI. I, where the west side of the temenos
is not at right angles to the south side, or to the axis
east to west. Hence any hall that was square must
be farther from the skew front at the north than at
the south ; and this difference is mainly put into the
pylon, though a little appears as a skew in the hall
itself.
The arrangement of the front is a curious study of
accommodation. The temenos wall butts against a
stone wall of the same width, at the south end ; this
stone wall is then part of the temenos wall. The side
passage is sharply inclined to this, but its doorway is
square with the front. The passage is really rather
too much skewed, slightly more than the side of the
hall. The letting down of the thickness of the wall
by steps should be noticed ; this is done so as to
get the pylon thinner at the south end, as it had to
be thicker at the north end. The axial passage is
parallel to the hall ; but its door was skew, parallel
to the pylon face. The dwarf walls in front of the
entrance are parallel to the sight line into the hall.
Now when the colossi had to be adapted to this
rivalry of angles a stranger scheme appeared. On
either hand of the southern side entrance stood a
granite colossus. Their pedestals are between the
direction of the sight line through the entrance, and
that of the front of the pylon. At the main entrance
the pedestal is frankly square with the hall and the
main sight line, and ignores the pylon front. But
the greatest pedestal in the middle of the face was
so wide that both sides could not be viewed at once,
and so each side was parallel to its adjacent pedestal,
thus concealing boldly the confusion of angles. The
northern half of the pylon face has almost disap-
peared, and only one of the colossal pedestals remains.
That one is curiously irregular in the wrong direction.
The small block on the north of it is a smaller
supplementary seated figure of Ramessu II.
13. The actual remains of the colossi are described
in the account of PI. XXIII. Here we may say that
the two at the south side entrance were red granite
standing figures, about 22 feet high. The greatest
base bore an alabaster figure, probably seated, about
38 feet high. The figure next to the main entrance
was of limestone, and by a piece of the breast it was
35 feet high. The scale of these pieces agrees with
the sizes of the pedestals, and they were each found
lying opposite to their respective pedestals.
THE WEST HALL OF PTAH
14. The side passage on the south is remarkable
for the excentric position of the columns, two being
to one side and two to the other side. What place
other columns bore cannot be traced. In the main
hall, the single outlines are the bases of columns ;
an inner circle shews the lower drum of a column
to be in place (see PI. XXV, base) ; a broken outline
shews the position inferred from others. In the
northern side passage only two square blocks of
foundations of columns are left.
The wide block of stonework at the north end
of the pylon is evidently the stone buttment for
the continuation of the temenos wall, now totally
removed, the line of it passing over a pond and
open fields. To the east of the hall are scattered
blocks which I have not succeeded yet in combining
into any plan. The group of blocks plotted on the
plan close together on the south-east is a foundation,
mainly made of granite casing of a pyramid. It
seems to shew that some heavy mass stood there.
The general aspect of the site, and the details of the
structure, will be seen in the account of Pis. XXI
to XXIII.
CHAPTER III
THE MONUMENTS. XVIIIth DYNASTY AND
EARLIER.
15. THE earliest monuments found were blocks
of stone that had been re-used by later kings of the
XlXth dynasty. Ramessu II had brought much
wrought stone from the pyramids and tombs of
Abusir and Saqqara. The basement of the walls of
the West Hall was built of pyramid casing-stones
of red granite, having an angle of 53° 20' (see base
of PI. XXI). Other such stones were inverted to
form foundations for columns ; and limestone casing-
stones, of angles from 56° 40' to 57° 30', and one of
62° 40', were used in the core masonry of the pylon.
Tombs were also robbed, and pieces of tomb sculp-
ture were used in foundations, such as the block on
PI. Ill; this is of the Vth dynasty, by the name
Ra-shepses ; he was divine scribe of the record office,
an unusual title. The figure has originally carried
a bird in the hand, but that has been cut away to
make room for the title. This block is now in the
Brussels Museum.
While clearing the West Hall, we came on a large
block of granite, of about seven tons, which appeared
to have been re-used. On looking beneath it, I found
the inscription of Ranuser, PL III, shewing it to
have been a door jamb. A similar block near it I
also searched, and found the fellow inscription of the
other jamb. Then looking at a re-used lintel, which
had long been visible to all, I saw a faint inscription
of Ranuser, shewing that it had been dedicated in the
Sun-temple at Abusir. The breadths of the blocks
agreed, and the whole doorway was before us. It
was removed, at the cost of the British School, to the
Cairo Museum. As I was not able to get a photo-
graph before I left, owing to difficulty of lighting,
a plan of the under side of the lintel and a copy of
the inscription are added in the middle of PI. III. The
lintel is 24 inches high, 48 deep back, and 107 inches
long ; the jambs are 28 by 48 inches in plan, and
imperfect at the ends, but 108 and 114 long.
16. Amid the ruin of the north half of the West
Hall lies a large block of limestone, from the lintel of
a doorway. The inscription of King Teta is shewn
on PI. Ill, with his ka name Sehotep-taui at the side.
The breadth of the whole lintel has been 104 inches,
and it is 497 deep back, and 38 inches high. The
doorway was about 41 wide. This is probably a door-
lintel from Teta's pyramid-temple at Saqqara.
17. In the foundations, on the western side of the
front court of the temple of Merenptah, were found
parts of lotus capitals, the most complete of which is
shewn on PI. Ill, with a fragment at the side of it
bearing finely worked buds. Another piece occurs
accidentally in PI. XXV. These capitals had been
split in two to use in building. The form is far
better than that of the Xllth dynasty, and is but
very little inferior to the beautiful capital of the Vth
dynasty from Abusir, now in the Cairo Museum.
This is probably therefore of the Vth or Vlth dynasty ;
it is now at Manchester.
18. Amid the ruins of the West Hall were three
blocks with very delicate hieroglyphs, perfectly cut
in red granite, PI. IV. These were parts of a granite
table of offerings for a Ha-prince, Uah-ka ; it was
dedicated to Osiris of Ankh-taui and Ptah. The
same name and titles {ha, and chief of prophets)
occur on a Stockholm stele (15) with the name of
Amenemhat III. But the engraving of this block is
so very fine that it seems to belong to the beginning
of the Xllth dynasty.
In front of the west pylon lay a block of granite
much defaced (PI. V). It bears part of a long and
finely engraved inscription, which was partly copied
with difficulty owing to the battered condition. In
the 8th column a long passage has been intentionally
EARLY MONUMENTS AND EAR TABLETS
erased. It names a vizier (mer nut that) Ameny,
endowments of offerings to Amenemhat I, and the
pyramid-temple (khniim-asut) of Senusert I.
A portion of a stele of quartzite sandstone, PI. VI,
lies in front of the pylon. The king's name is lost,
but from the work it seems to be of about the period
of Amenhotep III.
19. Beneath the foundation bed of sand of
Ramessu II, in the West Hall were found many
tablets and fragments, which had been thrown away
from a temple of the XVIIIth dynasty. About 40
perfect tablets and 150 fragments have been so far
recovered. But only a small area of the ground has
yet been cleared so deep. If a large number of objects
are broken in two, and a chance group of the whole
is examined, the number of pieces that can be joined
is to the total of the group, as the group total is to the
original total number. So as not a tenth of the pieces
yet found will fit together, probably not a tenth of
the whole number has yet been found. The earliest
is a large tablet (PI. VII, 46) of Tahutmes I offering
to Ptah and Sekhmet. (For the reading Sekhmet
see PI. XV, No. 36). At the base, adoring Ptah, is the
offerer, the guardian of the gate, Bak-ne-ra. The
space after Bak-ne is only half a sign high, and Ra
is the only name likely to fit that ; Turn and Sebek,
though low signs, would be improbable. We shall
now refer to the tablets in their numbered order.
PI. VIII. Nos. 1 and 2 and 3, probably of
Tahutmes IV, like No. 4. The hawk giving the
deadly power of the uraeus to the king is unusual.
The ears are considered below. No. 3 is dedicated
by the overseer of the serfs Rames and his sister
Uaat. No. 4 is dedicated by Rames, perhaps the
same man. The use of the crown instead of the bee
in the royal titles is rare.
20. PI. X. The subject of the figures of ears on
tablets is partly explained by the instances found this
season. Previously sculptures or models of ears
were thought to be ex voto offerings for recovery of
complaints. Spiegelberg published (Rec. Trav., 1904,
p. 56) an example with a prayer to Ptah to hear.
Now we have several such, Nos. 10, 15, 22, 25, 30;
and with the ears on each side of the head of Ptah,
14. Whether these phrases are requests to Ptah to
hear prayer, or titles, as " Ptah hearer of prayer,"
is not certain. We see, however, that the neha
" prayer," or spert " petition," is always in the singular,
so it does not refer to many different prayers, but
only to one, and so probably it is specific and not
general and titular. Again, the word prayer or
petition is always followed by " made by so-and-so " ;
and though this might refer to the tablet and not
to the prayer, yet it is only twice found on other
tablets (33, 42) apart from the word prayer, and
hence it probably refers to the specific prayer. We
must translate, then, " Ptah listen to the prayer made
by so-and-so."
The exact meaning of the ears has been looked
at in different ways. One view is that they are ears
of the god, to receive the prayer ; the other view is
that ears are put on to encourage hearing by
sympathetic magic. Now it is difficult to see the
use of a tablet with only an ear, and no figure or
inscription (as 5, 6, 7, 8), for promoting a petition
not recorded ; but if regarded as the ear of the
god, and prayed into, it might be thought to retain
the prayer for the attention of the god. The ob-
jection that a god would not have so many ears
(there are 376 on No. 49, PI. IX) is met by an
account of a god with J? ears and yj eyes. It
seems more likely, then, that these were the models
of the god's ears made to receive and preserve the
prayers breathed into them.
Some of these tablets were found in the south-
west corner of the building site which is cut away
by the pond ; such are Nos. 6, 7, 10, and 38. No. 1 1
has the two ears placed on stands as sacred objects,
and presided over by the winged disc.
PI. XI. No. 15 has a " suten da Itotep to Ptah
that he may listen to the prayer made by . . ."
No. 19 is offered by the " Inspector of the flesh
offerings of Amen, Piy." No. 20 is by a scribe and
his sister Thent-ant.
PI. XII. No. 21 is by the door-keeper Huy, and
the deputy Aay. No. 25 shews that such tablets
were made ready for purchase, with the name left
blank, as it has not been filled in here.
PI. XIII, 30 is interesting for naming the ka of
Ptah as adored, reminding us of the name of
Memphis, "the dwelling of the ka of Ptah." It
proves that gods had kas which were worshipped.
This is dedicated by the scribe of Ra, Mahuati.
Among ear tablets should be noted No. 48, PI. IX,
which had over no ears, and bears an " adoration to
the ka of Ptah, lord of truth." No. 49, below it, has
had about 376 ears, and is most delicately engraved.
The inscription (see PI. XIII) accounts for the
beautiful work, by stating that it is for the chief
artist Ptahmes. A rare title of Ptah is mes uba,
probably to be rendered "producing Art."
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THE MONUMENTS. XVIIIth DYNASTY AND EARLIER
21. PL XIV. Passing to the tablets without ears,
there is 31 naming the scribe of Memphis (?) Mer-ra.
No. 33 has the figure of the god in relief, and is
peculiar for the disc with one wing and the uzal
eye placed at the top. 35 is also in relief, but the
figure of the offerer has been erased.
PL XV. No. 36 gives the reading Sekhmet for
the consort of Ptah ; it is dedicated by Rames.
37 is later than the others, being of Merenptah,
and it was not found under the foundation like
the rest It has the figure of Asthairt or Astarte,
with a Hathor head-dress, and holding a shield and
spear, like the fighting goddesses of Syria. 38
shews the Theban triad of Amen, Mut, and Khonsu,
facing Ptah ; 39 is the rudest of all the tablets.
40 is dedicated to Ptah and Amen by Qen and
Merenptah.
PL XVI. No. 41 has no inscription ; a lady adores
Min. No. 42 is the most beautifully worked tablet,
shewing the ram of Amen, adored by the lady
Nehati. 43 is a private tablet shewing four
women, Aahmes, Nana-uab(P), Menat, and another.
An Aahmes appears also on the next tablet.
PL XVII. This is the only family stele of the
whole group ; though the inscriptions are rough,
we can see the names Huy, Kharu, Usert, Meryt, and
Roma, but the other names are doubtful.
The imperfect tablets have been left at Memphis,
awaiting the discovery of more pieces in future.
Rough copies of the names and titles are given at
the base of PI. XV ; they are distinguished by letters
to prevent confusion with any future publication of
them. We should notice the adoration of the ka
of Amen (C), the stele to Hapy (G) which is the only
notice of Apis, the miner or quarryman (L), and the
name Sipairi (o), which must be early in the XVI 1 1th
dynasty.
The present places of these tablets are as follows : —
Bristol 16, 43 ; Brussels 4, 21, 25, 39 ; Copenhagen
18, 26, 32, 41 ; Dublin 12, 29 ; Edinburgh 17, 36, 45,
46 ; London, British Museum, 5, 14, 30, South Ken-
sington 1, 47, University College 9, 24, 35, 37, 38 ;
Manchester 6, 10, 27, 28, 42, 49 ; Munich 2, 3, 44 ;
New York 13, 19, 22, 33, 40; Philadelphia 11, 23, 31,
34 ; Rochdale 1 5.
22. An unusual form of altar of offerings, found
with the tablets, is shewn at the foot of PI. IX, and its
inscription on PI. XVIII. It seems to represent four
long rolls of bread laid on the slab. The dedication
to Ptah and Sekhmet is by the Hereditary Prince,
royal sealbearer, lordly companion, true royal scribe,
over the house of the elders in Memphis, Amenhotep.
It is now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York.
Among the sculptures beneath the Ramesside
foundation were also portions of some statuettes.
Most were decayed, being of soft limestone, but one
figure of hard limestone is in good preservation, see
PL XIX. It is of the true royal scribe, keeper of
the palace, keeper of the granaries, Ray. From the
dress it is probably of the time of Amenhotep III:
it is now at Dublin.
At the west side of the pond (see map, PL I) a
patch of foundation deposit was discovered (PL XIX),
shewing that Tahutmes IV had built over the ground
now dug away. This deposit contained a large green
glazed tablet, incised after baking, two alabaster
hemi-discs, and a pointed piece, all with the king's
names. A plain square of alabaster and bronze
models of knives, axe, chisels, and crowbar, were
in the group, along with many small model vases
and cups of pottery, PL XX, 1-20. Now at Man-
chester.
CHAPTER IV
THE MONUMENTS. XIXth DYNASTY.
23. Over the region now occupied by the pond
near the West Hall, there has been a building of
Ramessu II, now entirely destroyed. Only the
west side of its foundation is left, and in the sand
bed of it a foundation deposit was found, shewn on
PL XIX. The large block of alabaster has the
cartouches of Ramessu 1 1 on both of the faces, and
the inscription of "the high priest of Ptah, the royal
son, Kha-em-uas " on both of the edges. The lesser
tablet of green glazed pottery has similar names on
the faces and edges ; and the black granite tablet
has the names of Ramessu on one face, and that of
Khaemuas on the other face. These are some of
the finest deposit blocks that are known ; they rest
now at Manchester. For the columns and inscrip-
tion, 21, see the account of PI. XXII.
24. In the West Hall two fragments of red granite
are remarkable. They are parts of false doors, which
have been about 108 and 148 inches wide, and pro-
bably about half as much again in height. On
PL XX, 22 is one piece shewing parts of the square 1
panel, of the architrave, and the drum with the
cartouche Ramessu Mery Amen. As this piece is
22 inches wide we can roughly estimate the whole.
The lower piece, no. 22, has the three vertical bands
XVIIIth— XIXth DYNASTY MONUMENTS AND DETAILS OF WEST HALL
of inscription and the torus roll and outer edge.
In the middle is at least 32 inches width of the sunk
door, which was possibly wider, but the increased
thickness of the side has most likely determined
the fracture. The parallel to such false doors in a
temple is seen in the seven chapels of Abydos,
which end each of them in a false door. There is
no room for such chapels in the hall, so it seems
that we must suppose the false doors were the foci
of the worship of the king in the hall. The painted
pottery no. 23 will be noticed with the objects of
Merenptah.
25. On PI. XXI are the views of the West Hall,
the plan of which is given in PI. II. The first is a
distant view from near the colossus, looking across
the water, which covers the temple site of Ptah till
February. The village in the distance is Mitrahineh.
This curious name appears to mean the village of a
hundred mortgages. The West Hall is just behind
the nearest palm stem. The village is seen again
in the view of the pond which is taken from just
in front of the pylon. This pond is due to former
excavations for the early statues of the pyramid
age. The boys are carrying the earth out from our
excavations. The third view is from above the
pylon, with the pond to the left Just to the right
of the middle tree is the line of columns in the hall ;
and to the left of it is the inner face of the pylon,
the body of which lies to the left The next view
shews the clearing of one quarter of the pond. We
divided it by banks into halves and quarters, and
then pumped out the water to eight feet under the
ordinary low level, by the pump seen in the middle.
A chain of boy3 handed up the mud in buckets and
tins, as it was dug loose, and poured it out at a
distance. The water ran in fast, as the work went
through the sand bed of foundations, which are
probably those of the temple of the pyramid age.
The pumping was continued by alternate pairs of
men changing every quarter of an hour, four thus
working by day and four by night The pump was
of a rubber-diaphragm type taking a four-inch hose :
and the water was run off along a graded channel
to a pond at the farther end of the village.
The outer sides of the West Hall were of basalt,
resting on a basis of granite casing-stones taken from
a pyramid, shewn in the last view. The whole length
was occupied with figures of cities bearing offering-
trays. In the view of the whole wall the distant
palm trees are as far as the Ptolemaic entrance, which
is in the gap above the end of the wall. From those
trees the temple buildings extended up to the hall in
the foreground
26. PI. XXII shews the details of the West Hall.
The axial entrance-passage has the basement of
basalt remaining, bearing an added inscription of
Merenptah, and another of Ramessu III below that.
In the middle line of the plate is one of the dwarf-
walls of granite that run out on either side of the
entrance before the pyloa The end of the entrance-
passage is seen above on the left The row of granite
columns is down the northern side of the hall, looking
across the temple site, as at the foot of the previous
plate. Among the loose blocks is a palm capital
probably of the Xllth dynasty; the lower part has
been built into a wall, and the abacus cut away into a
drum of a Ramesside engaged column. There arc
many pieces of engaged columns of hard pale drab
limestone, the longest of which (70 x 175 inches) is
shewn in the last view, PI. XXII. They were built
with the bed of the rock vertical, and usually in two
halves. They have all been re-used for architraves,
or roofing, or core blocks in the pylon, in the West
Hall. The pieces of inscriptions upon them, and the
sections of the blocks, are given on PI. XX. These
were clearly of Ramessu II, and name the god Ptah
Tanen. They seem therefore to have been part of
some building here made by Ramessu, who afterwards
pulled it down and re-used the material in the West
Hall. Such engaged columns are unknown else-
where. The columns were of varying sizes. The
diameters cannot be exactly fixed where only half
of the column breadth was in one block ; but the
sections given have the apparent diameter in inches
put beside each of them. There seem to have been
three sizes, the smallest 265 to 303 inches, another
40 inches, and the largest 55-6 inches wide. The
smallest were more fully detached, the larger ones
were only half columns projecting from a wall. The
letters A to N at the side of the sections refer to
the inscriptions which belong to each block.
PL XXIII. The lion's paw is on the side of a
spout, fallen from the roof of the West HalL The
block is upside down in the ruin, hence the lighting is
reversed here. The channel of the spout is seen on
the end. This is of basalt, as also are pieces of a very
large inscription on PL XXIV, lower half; and it
seems that the walls — which were probably of lime-
stone— had a band of black basalt along the base and
the top.
27. The colossi in front of the pylon are noticed
in the description of the plan, PL II. In PL XXIII
2
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THE MONUMENTS. XIXth DYNASTY
are shewn the side view and front view of the base of
a red granite colossus, on which is lying a leg broken
from it. The foot is 181 inches wide, 407 long, and
75 to top of the knee-cap. This implies a height of
about 22 feet with the crown.
The piece of an alabaster colossus is so much
weathered at the back that it is difficult to recognise
the form. As here placed in the plate, the back is to
the left, the slope across from left to right is the
shoulder, and in the shadow above that may be
seen the neck and beard. The neck is 44 inches
wide, the arm 33 thick, the trunk 79 across at the
smallest part. These and other dimensions imply
a height of about 44 feet if standing, or 38 feet if
seated.
At the bottom is a view of the base of one of the
colossi which stood in advance of the pylon entrance,
as described by Herodotos. This base is built of
blocks of basalt ; and the names of captive countries
on the side are shewn in the next photograph, with
traces of the Nile figures above them. It is difficult
to photograph, as trees shade it from most of the sun-
shine. The face of the basalt fell away soon after
being uncovered, but the names were transcribed as
soon as exposed ; reading from the right they are
Asy, Naharin, Kheta, . . . , Mad, Qedesh, Tasha
. . . , Khilbu, and Mashuash.
28. PI. XXIV. The upper block is a relief carved
in red granite representing the upper part of the
shrine of Ptah. The head of the god is admirably
wrought ; before it is the top of his sceptre. The
door of the shrine is represented as open, and
bearing the names of the king. Below that in the
plate is the inscription on a block of basalt cornice.
The whole block is 38 inches high, with bordering
bands sunk 50 to 5-8 from base, and 4'0 to 73 from
the top edge.
29. PL XXV. The clustered column with the
figure and name of Khaemuas was found re-used in
the masonry of the temple of Merenptah. It is
evidently of the same class as the clustered column
with rope-pattern binding in the next photograph.
The inscription is transcribed on PL XXVI. The
date of these clustered columns is not certain : the
rope binding is unknown before, and the scene of
Khaemuas has, by some, been supposed to have been
altered from some earlier subject.
The small columns of Ramessu II and III were
found in the S. W. corner of the temenos. That of
Ramessu II was standing in place on one of the
bases of the colonnade, the plan of which is in
PL XXX. The chapel of Shabaka in the same region
is planned in PL XX VI I.
The lower drum of a granite column is one of the
largest columns of the West Hall. It is 86 inches
across. The figuring of Set in place of Uazit for the
northern divinity is very unusual, and the figure has
of course been erased in later times. The treatment
of the Nile plants is better than on most Ramesside
work.
30. PL XXVI. The first inscription is on a
door jamb, which had been brought down from the
cemetery as building material. It has a suten da
hotep to some gods and to the royal ka of
Ramessu II ; this address to the royal ka is like that
found under Akhenaten (Davies, Tell el A mama II,
ix). The name of the person is lost, but she was a
princess, erpat, and a praiser of the king, hesy. It is
now in Munich.
The fragment of an inscription, 2, is from a
quartzite stele, which had been reworked by Ram-
essu II, and lies on the north of the entrance to the
West Hall. 3, 4 and 5 are fragments of limestone
sculpture, from earlier works re-used : 3 is now at
Brussels, 4 at Rochdale, 5 at New York. Probably
5 is part of a scene of the funeral sacrifice of a bull
by the sons of the deceased. 6 is the inscription on
a column in the previous plate. 7 shews the car-
touches of Set-nekht, as engraved on the front of the
pylon of the West Hall.
31. PL XXVII. A small building in the south-
west corner of the great temenos, was dated by the
ka name of Shabaka on a block of stone. The
hieroglyphs were finely executed in low relief. The
plan could not be followed farther than here shewn,
owing to the palm trees. Probably the space marked
as earth had been occupied with a cross wall, which
had been entirely removed for the stone. The
photograph of the ruin is shewn at the base of
PL XXV.
The building east of the Sacred Lake was un-
covered by the sebakhin diggers in recent years ;
and, though they were not allowed to take the
stone-work, they dug away the brick walls almost
entirely, so that they are here restored (solid black)
by inference. There is a long paving of blocks
of red granite, leading away from the east gate,
through the town ruins, shewing that this was
an important building. Not a single hieroglyph or
graffito is to be found on any of the masonry.
The measurements of this plan were taken by Mr.
Ivo Gregg.
XIXth dynasty monuments and plan of merenptah temple
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CHAPTER V
THE TEMPLE OF MERENPTAH.
32. IN the first chapter we have already con-
sidered the identification of the temple of Merenptah
with the temple of Proteus in the foreign quarter.
We now notice the actual remains.
The position of the temple in relation to the
surrounding buildings is shewn in PI. XXVII. Of
the actual temple two points are fixed ; the first is
the great outer gateway of Merenptah, the lintel of
which was found two years before, standing in place ;
the second is the inner doorway to the temple, of
which we found two foundation stones and one jamb.
The outer gate of the forecourt was roofed by a
lintel of about 16 feet long. The sculptured scenes
upon it, of Merenptah before Ptah, occupied 185
inches in length and 42 inches in height. This lintel
has been completely copied, and will appear in a
future volume. Its thickness is formed of two or
three slabs of stone one behind the other, like the
architraves of the Parthenon. They are cracked
through, and the whole was anciently in danger of
falling. The Egyptians therefore closed this gate,
and shored it up by walls of brick, buttressing it in
front (see plan). Behind it, and all over the court,
chambers were built which completely filled up the
area. A few of the more distinct of these were
measured, and are entered on the plan in the " Outer
Court of Merenptah " ; but it must be remembered
that they have no connection with the temple, and
are entirely later.
33. All over the middle of the outer court there
was a thick layer of earth with remains from work-
shops, below the houses, belonging to a time when
rubbish was thrown into the court, but before it was
appropriated to civil use. These remains are glazed
beads and waste beads, and great numbers of little
pellets of burnt clay about a quarter of an inch across.
These pellets may have been used to separate objects
in the kiln. On the western side of the court were
many unfinished scarabs in steatite, roughly blocked
out (XXVIII, 14), and unfinished calcite beads
(XXVIII, 13).
The ground of the court was open, and originally
contained no buildings. Some little washing troughs
were found sunk in the ground, perhaps shewing that
ablutions were performed in the court. The re-used
lotus capitals (PI. Ill) and column of Khaemuas
(PI. XXV) were found in the ground at the south-
west of the court. The western side of the court
seems to have been a line of brick wall, which we
traced along most of the length of it.
At the back of the court was a doorway, doubtless
that of the temple, and the wall east of that seems
to belong to the temple by its direction. Two great
blocks of red granite ,with the name of Merenptah
formed the foundations ; and the western door jamb
stood in place about seven feet high. This, being
of limestone, we sawed into three pieces, and it is
now in the British Museum. On PI. XXIX is the
photograph of this jamb.
34. The relation of this temple to the rest of
the town we may note, before passing to the small
objects. Over the temple building, north of the
outer court, two large blocks of brickwork have been
superposed. These will have to be entirely removed
in 1909, in order to reach the temple, whose position
is now exactly known. The general direction of
the streets and houses is parallel to the temple. But
all of these houses are later than the temple,
probably built during a few centuries before the
Ptolemies. They doubtless stand on the lower parts
of earlier houses. The street lines, where they
could be traced, are here marked by rows of dots,
approximately the distance apart of ordinary foot-
steps, so as to give a sense of scale in looking at
the plan. The longest wall, running out to the
east edge of the plate, has been buttressed and
thickened along the north side, and a sloping way
to the top on that side seems to be of original
design. It was therefore intended for defence against
the south, and thus was the enclosing wall of the
Tyrian camp named by Herodotos. But it was not
an early feature, as it lies over the house ruins of
the same ground level as the rest of the plan.
Probably it is early Ptolemaic, a defensive work for
the Greek garrison stationed in the foreign quarter.
It is exactly in line with the south wall of the
temenos of Ptah ; and it probably ran on continuous
from that (see PI. I, where it is marked " Late
Wall "). But it cannot now be traced up to the
temenos, as all the intervening ground is cut away
lower than the base of this wall.
35. The small objects from the courtyard of
Merenptah are shewn in PI. XXVIII, figs. 1 to 22 ;
the Cypriote pottery is in PI. XXIX, the rough
painted figures of pottery are at the top left hand
in PI. XLIV, and a piece of painted dish at the
bottom of PI. XX. This dish is of rough pottery
with a pale drab facing ; the pattern is of black,
with broad red filling, which is shaded here in
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THE TEMPLE OF MERENPTAH
vertical lines (B.M.). On PL XXVIII some pieces
are probably foreign, such as the " island figure "
of alabaster, 3 ; the amulet, 9 ; and the steatite and
onyx discs, II, 12. Others are hardly of Egyptian
manufacture, as the Taurt head, 4, and the calcite
beads, 13, and scarab blocks, 14. No. 5 is a
very unusual figure of Bast playing a lute. The
strainers 6 and 23 are apparently intended to hang
on to a spout, probably for straining wine (B.M.).
The cones of blue pottery, 15, 16, appear to copy
cone shells ; they have no hole for hanging, and
are solid, for what purpose we cannot say. Their
colour and texture are remarkably like some of
the glazed pottery of the 1st dynasty. Many
sickle flints, 17-20, were found among the houses
filling the court, shewing that such sickles were still
in use during the later dynasties. The two tablets
of Hathor, 21, 22, are the only such found at
Memphis, and are probably connected with the
shrine of Aphrodite = Hathor, named by Herodotos
as being here. No. 21 shews Hathor standing before
the Hathor cow ; the ears above are for " Hathor
lady of Nehat," the sacred sycomore of Memphis.
No. 22 has the cow amid the marshes, named
" Hathor lady of Hotep-hem," a place in the
Heliopolite nome. Below is the dedication " made
by the nurse of the royal son, the lady of the
house, Ta-nenuny." Both of these tablets are in
Manchester ; but all the objects and pottery with
foreign connection are in the British Museum, Greek
department, where all foreign pieces from this temple
will be placed in future. Besides the objects figured
there were five pieces of alabaster inlaying, one
piece of glazed tile of Sety II, and one piece of
tile with large hieroglyphs, vies, doubtless from a
cartouche. These scraps thrown out into the court-
yard suggest that there was both alabaster inlaying
and coloured tile work in the temple. Many moulds
for glazed amulets were found amid the potters'
waste in the courtyard ; 8 of Ptah, 4 of Isis, 1 5 of
Sekhmet, 8 of her aegis, 2 of Bes, 4 of busts, 14
of eyes, 8 of scarabs, about 50 for disc beads, 1 each
of the cowry, lotus cup, lotus seed, spiral, etc. The
scarabs found in the court are in PL XXXIV, and
are noticed further on.
CHAPTER VI
THE LATER ANTIQUITIES.
36. In PL XXVIII, 23-30, are some of the small
objects found in various parts. The bronze lion (?),
24, is a handle from a vase. The bolt 25 probably
belonged to a door of a model shrine. The measures,
26, 27, are perhaps for medicines, being too small
for any ordinary goods. The disc and horns, 28, is
doubtless from a figure of Isis. The chisel, 30, was
found in the sand bed of the West Hall, lost there
by some mason of Ramessu II.
PL XXIX. Beside the objects described above,
there is a Roman lamp and holder, of bronze. This
form of holder was to hang up the lamp, by loops
which carried the trunnions on the side of the lamp.
The hook at the top of the handle served to hang
it, or sling it from the finger. The arch below is
ornamented with foliage scroll (Brit. Mus.).
37. PL XXX. The plan of the great gate shews
that it is close to the north-east corner of the camp,
as on PL I. We searched along the whole eastern
side of the camp, expecting to find a gate near
the middle of it ; but every part was proved to be
continuous until we reached this corner. Here the
foundation of the gateway remained, with sufficient
traces of the wall along the south side, and enough
on the north to shew the width. The gate was
single, the side recess for it being equal to the
width of the entrance. The recess is 164 wide and
9 to 10 inches deep ; the entrance is 144 wide, or
164 into the recesses, if the two walls were alike.
The depth of the foundation is five courses thick,
amounting to just ten feet of solid white limestone.
Beneath the upper course there runs a drain, 1 5 to
16 inches wide.
38. The building of Siamen is at the south-west
corner of the map, PL I. It was of mud brick, with
stone lintels and jambs, and contained stone columns.
The finest work of the lintels is shewn on the next
plate ; but all the lintels will be published next year,
when it is hoped that the whole building will have
been excavated. Hitherto the only sculptures of this
king were on a few blocks of granite at Tanis, and
not a single piece existed in any museum ; to obtain
six lintels and many door jambs was therefore a
valuable result. These lintels are now in Cairo
(PL XXXI), Copenhagen, British Museum, Man-
chester, Philadelphia and Pittsburg.
The building in the south-west of the Ptah
temenos was apparently a late and irregular work.
The bases of the colonnade are of varying sizes ;
upon one stood a column of Ramessu II, but it may
not have been originally placed there. North of that
was a chamber built of re-used blocks of sculptured
stone. To the east lie three blocks of alabaster ; the
FOREIGN AND LATER ANTIQUITIES
13
northern has cartouches of Ramessu II with . . . /
si ankh at the side. The southern block has the
cartouches of Sheshenq I in the middle ; at one side
is a figure of the high priest of Memphis, and an
mut ef priest, named Ankh-ef-ne-amen (?) who is
offering to Osir-hapi, with also the name of his heir,
erpa em ab ne ur kherp uba, Set-nen-nefer-tum. The
figure opposite to this is probably that of the son.
The block seems to have been brought from the
Apis temple. It will be published next year. Other
large blocks of foundation also belong to some build-
ing which has now been entirely destroyed. These
blocks are higher up than the colonnade, and there-
fore belong to a late date.
PI. XXXI. The lintel of Siamen has been noticed
above. It is of far better work than has generally
been credited to the XXIst dynasty, almost equalling
the style of Sety I ; and it shews how well the
Memphite school was maintained. The high official
behind the king is Ankh-ef-ne-mut, son of the
prince Auy. The slab here shewn is half of the
lintel, which has a similar scene on the other half,
with cartouches of the king between the scenes.
Below is a block with an Agathodaimon in relief,
and diagonal holes at the corners to pin it back
into a wall. It seems to have been a house charm
or amulet.
39. The breccia statue is of fine work, PI. XXXI ;
it now measures 29J inches, so the whole figure must
have been 38 inches high, or rather over half life
size. It is carefully finished, but conventional in the
anatomy. The inscriptions on the belt and back are
given in the next plate, XXXII. The belt has the
dedication to Ptah and to Sokar, for the Hereditary
prince, the royal brother of the jking's father, general,
elder of the elders, vizier, Hap-amu. The middle of
the back inscription is entirely worn away by rubbing.
It is here divided across the middle, in order to keep
it on a sufficiently large scale in the plate. In the
third column is a trace of a cartouche which can
hardly be any other than that of Nekht-hor-heb.
This explains how Hap-amu was royal brother of
the king's father, and not brother of a king : Nekht-
hor-heb was the first of his dynasty, and his father
was not a king. The uncle therefore could only
claim royal relationship through his nephew. And
this high position explains his having the greatest
administrative titles. The style of work would agree
well with this date of the XXXth dynasty. The
figure is now in New York, Metropolitan Museum.
On. this plate are also two pieces of inscriptions that
were re-used in the temple. They name Osiris lord
of Rustau, and are probably from tombs.
40. PI. XXXIII. First is a curious stele, bought
at Memphis. The figure of the offerer and the
inscription seem as if cut on a reworked surface, while
only Osiris and Isis belong to the original stele.
The deceased was devoted to Hathor of Tep-ahu
(Aphroditopolis), " over the speaking of words, Sha-
ne-ba, son of Khred-ne-mut and Sha-ne-ba . . .
Hor, his mother Tahayba." The title her zed medu,
" over the speaking of words," seems new to us ; it
may mean the arranger of the official speeches of
the gods.
The trial pieces are all in quartzite, and shew
various grades of work from simple outline to the
finest elaboration. The best four are in South
Kensington Museum ; the piece with si ra is at
Brussels, along with a trial piece of a kheper beetle
in limestone.
The shrine or hutch seems as if for keeping a small
animal. There is a little air hole at the back, and
it had a sliding door in front. The edge of the hole
is gnawed, which suggests that a shrew mouse was
kept in it. It was bought at Memphis ; now in
University College, London.
The head of Hathor is now at Munich, and the
piece of a house model at University College.
41. PI. XXXIV. The scarabs were found partly
scattered in the general excavations, but rather more
than half came from the Merenptah temple court,
which was filled up with later houses. A very few
are as old as the Xllth dynasty ; probably 1, 2, 6 and 7
may be thus dated. Of the Hyksos age there may
be 8, 9 and 10. The XVII Ith dynasty produced 3, 4,
5, 12, 16 (Amenhotep III), 17, 20, 21, and perhaps
82 ; but the rest with Men-kheper-ra are probably
of a later date. It is difficult to decide how many
may belong to the XlXth dynasty ; but probably
23, 26, 27, 28 can be safely put there. No. 29 is of
red jasper, and probably the name is intended for
Ramessu VI. After this we can only date 63 of
Siamen, XXIst dynasty ; 103, which is Greek work
in dark green jasper of the XXV Ith dynasty ; and
104, probably of the same age. The rest are difficult
to discriminate in age ; some may be rough work
of an earlier date, as 33, 58, 71, or be later imitations,
as 69, 70, 72, 75. The majority are made of the
usual schist ; but one-third of those from the
Merenptah temple, and one in seven of the rest,
are of pottery or soft paste. The proportion is,
however, the same in all, if we omit the rings, which
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THE LATER ANTIQUITIES
are always of pottery. It is obvious from these
examples that Memphis is the source of a large part
of the scarabs sold in Cairo. I have to thank Miss
Herford for inking in these drawings. The Plates
XXXV to XL1V are noted in the next chapter.
42. PI. XLV. The green glazed altar of offerings
is a very unusual object, probably of early Ptolemaic
age. It has a band of palmetto pattern around the
edge, and is in perfect condition. It was found in
the earth at the south gateway of the pylon before
the West Hall ; it is now in the British Museum.
The limestone head was found at Athribis on the
site of a temple built by Ptolemy Physkon ; as it
is that of a king, by the uraeus (broken off) and
the character of it, it is doubtless from a statue of
Physkon. The Ptolemaic portraits are rare in stat-
uary, and this is apparently the only such in lime-
stone that has survived. This is now at Manchester.
The trial pieces were also from Athribis, and
are now at Munich. The pieces of the red granite
architrave of the pylon of Ptolemy IV are on a much
smaller scale than the other objects here. They will
be published more fully when it is seen if other
pieces can be recovered. The restoration is that
suggested by Prof. Sayce. The name of a queen
Arsinoe can only belong to one of the queens of
Ptolemy II or to the queen of Ptolemy IV ; and of
these two kings the title Theos can only belong
to Ptolemy IV. The third line has been added
at a date after the erection, as it is but slightly
and roughly cut, while the first two lines are deep
and clear. These pieces are from the architrave
of the entrance added to the east side of the
temenos of Ptah, where the road from Bedrasheyn
now enters the mounds. Two granite capitals were
also found, of different types.
The piece of a Greek funeral stele is in white
marble ; it is now at New York. The examples of
alabaster vase-working shew on what a great scale it
was practised at Memphis, as thousands of drill cores
are found. At the back are seen three vases broken
in course of making ; at the right is a vase roughed
out ready to be drilled, and in front are five cores
from tube drills. Some examples have been sent
to most museums connected with the work.
43. PL XLVI. A large quantity of pottery was
found in one group, while clearing to the east
of the temple of Merenptah. The forms are all
given in this plate ; and the two Greek vases, 5, 6,
give a date of about 300 B.C. So this may be taken
as the beginning of a corpus of early Ptolemaic
pottery, the first large series thus dated. With this
pottery was the mask of a satyr on PI. XLIX, and
the glazed pottery figures, PI. XLVI I. These are the
only figures well dated to a late period, and give
a definite standard for comparison. The piece at
the lower left hand of the group is of black Greek
pottery.
PI. XLVI I also contains a group of lamps, probably
belonging to about 200 A.D. The designs may well
be copies of moulds of the time of Hadrian, while
the pottery on PI. XLVI 1 1 found with them is
rather earlier than the pottery of the Illrd century
at Ehnasya. The handles belong to the lamps with
which they are placed, and there is one odd one in
the middle of each group. Other lamps found with
these are of the following types, published in Roman
Ehnasya :— A 40 ; B 30, 85, 93 ; E 55, 97 ; F 37 ;
J 92 ; P 86. These are all debased types ; and we
now learn that such were contemporary with the
fairly made triangular handles, and are as early as
200 A.D. Such a date quite accords with the dates
of the rough lamps found at Ehnasya.
PI. XLIX. The statuette of Nefertum is curious,
as shewing that it was thought worth while to mend
such a figure, if broken in modelling. The crown
has been broken off, and rejoined before the glazing.
The mask we have already named as being found
with the lamps. The rest of the plate shews the
kiln and pieces of blue glazed pottery found in it.
The drawings of the forms are on the next plate.
The group of pottery kilns and waste lies to the
south end of Memphis, beyond the Kom Hellul.
We opened one kiln which had been abandoned, and
then been used later as a rubbish hole for wasters
from other kilns. I carefully verified, by working for
some time myself, that the wasters had been moved
out from the kiln where they were baked. The
view of the kiln is given in the plate. It was a pit
about six feet square and eight feet deep ; no hole
was traced in the lower part, but more than halfway
up there was an arched opening to the west, about
two feet wide. This could not be for out-draught as
it faces the usual wind ; and therefore it seems that
the air was admitted to the upper part of the kiln.
The supports for the glazed pottery were cylinder
jars 10 inches wide and "j\ inches high. The body
was of coarse brown and yellow pottery, fusing to a
dirty yellow-green. The jars are shewn by their
fusion, and by attached objects, to have been stood
mouth upwards in the furnace. Such jars were
placed mouth downwards in the time of the XVIIIth
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PTOLEMAIC AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. OBJECTS FROM ATHRIBIS
IS
dynasty {Tell el Amarna p. 26, PI. XIII, 62). The
dishes were stacked face down, one over the other,
supported apart by four cones of pottery between
each. Such cones were about half an inch high in
Ptolemaic times, but varied up to an inch high in
Roman use.
PI. L shews the forms of the dishes and jars
found among these wasters. The best set went to
Cairo and the South Kensington Museum, and other
examples to most of the other museums concerned.
44. PI. LI shews the small objects obtained at
Athribis, which were not drawn in Egypt in time for
the volume on that site. The material is stated at
the base of the plate. The date is probably from the
IVth to the VII I th century. Fig. 2 is a lid, perhaps
for a chalice. 3 is a separate figure of an eagle made
to stand alone, and not part of a larger object. 4 and
16 seem as if they were ceremonial crosses to be held
by the loop and used in giving a blessing. 10 is
probably a leather- worker's knife. 12 is a spur,
perhaps late. 14 is a fish-harpoon. 1 5 is a pair of
tweezers, with a pick point hinged between them, so
that it could be pushed aside when requisite : such
girdle pendants were probably for extracting thorns
from the feet. 18 is a curious chain made of long
strips of bark, coiled round and covered with a
vegetable paste ; it could have no strength, and must
have been only ornamental. The dolls 21, 23, are at
Brussels. The glass bottles 24, 25, 26 I had long
supposed to be modern flower button-hole tubes,
when seen in dealers' hands ; but finding three such
here at Athribis, a most out-of-the-way place, seems
to prove their Roman age. The pieces of a large
glazed jar, with yellow designs, 29, are here restored
as far as possible. It is of course Cufic.
PI. LI I. Many pieces of painted pottery were
found at Athribis ; and it seemed desired by different
authorities that they should be published for refer-
ence. They have all been traced by Miss Murray.
They are mostly in the British Museum, Graeco-
Roman Department, and some at South Kensington.
Above these is an inscription from a wooden
lintel found at Rifeh, apparently belonging to the
scribe Phibamon.
45. PI. LI II. The inscription 1 is a dedication
by " Alexander the Rhetor to the most prolific Nile."
It is on the edge of a slab of marble, bought at
Memphis. It was doubtless the base of a group
of sculpture ; and — as Dr. Cecil Smith remarked — it
probably gives the correct name of the group of the
Nile with children around, Nilos Gonim5tatos. 4
is a roughly cut block found at Memphis, with the
dedication " In the name of the Father and of the Son
and of the Holy Ghost." Nos. 1, 5 and 6 are in the
British Museum, Graeco-Roman Department. Nos. 8,
9 and 10 are tracings from ink writing on plastered
walls, not removed. The inscriptions 7 and 14 are
at Brussels, 13 at Dublin, 11 and 16 at New York.
No. 14 has not been engraved in the lower part, the
outlined letters being left only in red paint.
We may add here the destination of some other
things. In Athribis, PI. XXIX, the scene of Auletes
and his ka is now at Edinburgh. In PI. XIX the
nome figures are at Brussels, Munich and Bristol.
In Gizeh and Rifeh, PI. XXXVII B, some of the
chair legs are at South Kensington, Nos. 11, 13, 16 at
University College, 9 at Brussels, 10 at New York, 14
at Rochdale, 15 at Munich. In PI. XXXVIII, 1 is
at South Kensington, 8 at University College, 9 at
Brussels, 10 at Cairo, 6 at Philadelphia, 11 at Munich,
12 at Oxford. The parchment and papyrus docu-
ments, and fragments, are all at the Bodleian Library,
Oxford. In PI. XXXIX, 1 is at Cairo, 2 at University
College, 3 at New York. In PI. XL, 1 is at New
York, 2 and 3 at Brussels, 4 at University College,
London.
CHAPTER VII
THE TERRA-COTTA HEADS.
46. THE finding of the foreign quarter of Memphis
was one of the main objects of the opening campaign
there. But the discovery of the portraits of the
foreigners was not even thought of; and only
gradually was it realised that we had before us the
figures of more than a dozen different races, see
Pis. XXXV to XLIV.
The date of these models is indicated by the
Persian figures (16, 18), probably made during the
Persian occupation, 525 to 405 B.C., and the archaic
Greek (56) which is of the Vlth century B.C. These,
like most of the other heads, are modelled in solid
clay. Only about half a dozen Greek figures, and the
Indian woman (36), are moulded and made hollow,
and these may well be about 200 B.C. A very rough
variety of the Scythian horseman (46), moulded but
solid, was found with the pottery group of about
300 B.C. Wc may then probably date the great
majority, which are solid modelled figures, to about
500 to 300 B.C. ; and the few moulded hollow figures
from 300 to 200 B.C. The taste for representing
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THE TERRA-COTTA HEADS
foreigners is well known throughout Egyptian history,
and some of the best and most characteristic work
was spent on foreign figures. This was not a subject
for the Greek, he despised the barbarian too much ;
but there is a Greek ability about many of these in
the technical detail. It seems probable that they are
the work of mixed Graeco-Egyptian artists. They
are almost all found in the foreign quarter.
47. The figures on PI. XXXV are all probably
Egyptians, with some southern mixture. Of these,
5 to 13 are the regular Egyptian figures of a woman
on a couch, sometimes with a child. Such were
made as early as the XVIIIth dynasty, and on to
Greek times ; and they hardly belong to the general
class of these ethnic types. The large earring of
No. 1 is certainly Egyptian. No. 2 is like the sturdy
well-fed women of Middle Egypt ; the swathing up
of the hair when at work is seen in the tomb of
Khnum-hotep at Beni-hasan. 3 and 4 are of
the southern type with prognathous face, and close
curly hair. 14 is Egyptian by the hair dressing,
and the face is of the higher-class type. 15 would
be probably Egyptian by the hair ; but the type is
not familiar. It is remarkable that all the Egyptian
figures are women ; whereas out of 44 others there
are only 3 foreign women and 3 Greek women.
This points to the immigrants being mainly men ;
and perhaps the Egyptian women were those living
in the foreign quarter.
48. PL XXXVI. The great mover in promoting
this foreign mixture was the Persian empire. By
that magnificent creation the world-peace was es-
tablished from the Indus to the Balkans, roads
were made, trade was encouraged, and masses of
men were moved from land to land in the army,
so that Scythian and Indian fought side by side in
Greece. The possibilities of peaceful commercial
settlement had never been so extensive before. In
16 we see the Persian Great King, with his bushy
hair, close-fitting tiara, and disc on the front ; each
of these distinctions may be seen on figures of
the Persian kings. The high-bred Aryan type is
well shewn in this head.
No. 1 8 is the cavalry officer, with the face swathed
to keep off heat and dust, like the horseman on the
Sidon sarcophagus (17). On the head is the lion's
scalp, probably a regimental badge. Herodotos
mentions of the Persian cavalry " that on their
heads some of them wore brazen and wrought steel
ornaments " (vii, 84). The face is delicate, and almost
effeminate, in the slight brow and refined eyes.
No. 20 is the most vigorously modelled head of
all. It is carefully finished, the detail of the ears
being precise. The flesh parts are coloured red,
and the hair black. The type is that of the Semite,
as shewn in the chief of the Amu at Benihasan (19),
but sturdier and fatter owing to a settled life. It
probably represents the Syrian or Jewish trader.
49. PI. XXXVII. No. 22 is of the old Sumerian
or Akkadian type, as shewn by the limestone head
from Babylonia (21). And 24 is another Sumerian
type, as shewn by a limestone head from Tell Loh
(23). These limestone heads have been recognised
as Sumerian by Dr. Meyer (Berl. Akad. Ab/iandlungen,
1906, III) ; and the resemblance of the pottery heads
from Memphis is so close that they must be accepted
as the same race. This has surprised Assyriologists,
as the racial type was supposed to have died out
with the Turanian language, before 2000 B.C. (Zeit.
Assyr. xxii, 199). Yet Dr. Pinches has remarked
that this type is seen in the Nestorian Christians
from Babylonia, who are likely to have had less
Arab mixture than the Muhamedans. It need not
be supposed that the old Sumerian stock was un-
mixed ; but rather that the type belongs to the land
and the climate, and has subdued and unified all
the mixture that was put into it. Likewise in Egypt,
within a thousand years of a mixture, the old type
of skull has entirely regained its dominance.
No. 26 is a peculiar type, from the high flat
forehead, and the short, prominent, sub-aquiline nose.
It may perhaps be compared with the type of
Khammurabi (25), which has the same form of fore-
head and lips, and only a slightly thicker nose. It
may be regarded as a Semitic Babylonian, unless
some closer resemblance may be found in the Persian
empire.
PI. XXXVIII. Here are grouped together the
various types for which no satisfactory connection
has yet been observed. Perhaps coinage would be
the fullest source for comparisons. Nos. 27 and 28
seem to be artificially flattened heads.
50. PI. XXXIX. The figures of Indians are of
different races. 35 is a Tibetan type, which is also
found in Orissa. There is an ape on each side of the
head. 36 is an Aryan Punjabi type ; the attitude
with the hip raised high on one side, the arms bent,
and the loose lock of hair, are all Indian ; but the
band round the breast, the amulet hung round the
neck, and the artificial navel line, are all strange and
lack a comparison. 37 and 39 are seated cross-legged
with drapery round the waist ; 38 and 40 have the
PERSIAN, SUMERIAN, INDIAN AND SCYTHIAN
17
knees raised, and a scarf over the left shoulder. These
attitudes are familiar in Indian art.
Now there has been a strong feeling that as dated
material has not been obtained in India before Asoka,
therefore Indian civilisation was not of much import-
ance in earlier days. But that is merely a result of
the early prevalence of wood-work, owing to which
stone monuments were not yet erected. The magni-
ficent stone pillars and carvings of Asoka prove that
a long growth of art and skill had preceded them ;
and the account of the country at the time of
Alexander shews that a high civilisation existed then.
As early as Darius, about 500 B.C., the India subject
to the Persians was the most populous province of
that empire, and yielded 360 talents of gold yearly.
The Indians fought in Greece with Xerxes 480 B.C.,
and when Mardonius picked the flower of the army
to stay in Greece, he took the Persian Immortals,
Medes, Sacae, Bactrians, and Indians. The contact
of India with Europe dates then to the early years
of the Persian empire.
Settlements of Indians appear at Nippur in
Babylonia, as early as 425 B.C., and in the Aswan
papyri in Egypt.
In view of these connections there seems no
difficulty in accepting the Indian colony in Memphis
as being due to the Persian intercourse from 525 to
405 B.C. And the introduction of asceticism, already
in a communal form by 340 B.C., points also to the
growth of Indian ideas. To date these solid modelled
figures, 35, 37-40, to the Vth century B.C., and the
hollow moulded figure, 36, to the Illrd century B.C.,
in accord with the general dating of the other figures,
seems therefore the most reasonable result. The im-
portance of such tangible remains of India, as bearing
on the Indian colony, and the spread of Indian ideas
in the West, will be obvious to all students.
51. PI. XL. The other extreme of the Persian
empire is seen in the figures of Scythians. The
tall pointed hood, the bushy beard, and the riding
on horseback, all shew that we have here the Sacae
cavalry of the Persian army. For comparison see
the head of a Scythian, 41, from the silver vase
found at Koul-oba in the Crimea. These figures are
all moulded, but solid, and therefore intermediate
between the modelled solid figures and the moulded
hollow figures. The roughest of them, 46, was found
with the pottery in PI. XLVI, and is dated therefore
to about 300 B.C. It seems not improbable that these
Scythians belong to the second Persian occupation,
342 to 332 B.C.
52. PI. XLI. These heads seem to be more
western in type. 47 is like the Roman figures,
with the toga worn over the head, as in sacrificing,
and as the Fratres Arvales. 48 recalls some of
the wizen faces of the Roman republican busts. 5°
should be compared with a glazed head found at
Naukratis (Nauk. ii, xvii, 11), and the coins of
Ptolemaic queens ; it is perhaps a Macedonian.
PI. XLI I. Here are distinctively Greek figures.
55 may be Attys ; 56 is of the archaic Greek
type of face and hair, but not made by a Greek of
that age ; it is rather the Egyptian version of an
early Greek. The graceful little figure, 57, is of a
usual type ; the instrument played upon is the Syrian
kinyra. The other figures are also well known.
57 to 60 are all modelled hollow.
PI. XLI 1 1. These are later Greek works, some
apparently grotesque, as 64, 66, 67, 6g. Such are
often found in Ptolemaic sites. All of the foregoing
heads are kept at University College, London, for
study with others that may be found.
PI. XLIV. The group at the top left is of painted
pottery, with black, red and yellow colours. These
come from the Merenptah temple, and seem to be
Mediterranean work of pre-classic time. They are
now in the British Museum, Graeco-Roman Depart-
ment.
The group of heads at the top right shew the
rougher examples, most of which can hardly be
identified as distinct types. Two of them are also
published enlarged, 52, 53.
The horses and seated figures of the " snow-man
style " at the bottom left hand, are a class well known
at various other sites (Tell el Yehudiyeh, Hyksos and
Israelite Cities XIX D ; Naukratis, etc.) Their origin
is yet unknown.
The rising handles of craters with Bacchic heads
are usual elsewhere {Naukratis i, 42 ; Hyksos Cities
XIX D). The types here with the thunderbolt,
rosette, and lion's head are peculiar.
Plates XLV to LIV are already described in
the previous chapter.
CHAPTER VIII
THE INSCRIPTIONS.
By Dr. J. H. WALKER.
53. PL. V. This inscription is unfortunately in
too fragmentary a condition to allow of any running
translation. It contains a list of endowments, which
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THE INSCRIPTIONS
are given to perpetuate the service of mortuary
offerings for the deceased, or else a list of gifts be-
stowed upon the noble by the King. Several good
examples of these endowments exist, the earliest
occurring in the biography of Methen, who died in
the reign of Seneferu. He states that he received as
a reward 200 arouras of land from the King, and a
mortuary offering of 100 loaves every day, from the
mother of the King's children. A large house was
also presented to him with a garden, containing trees
of various kinds, and a lake.
The inscription here contains a list, very similar
to that of Methen. Methen begins his list by saying
that he had 12 domains provided for him. Here in
line 2 the number of domains mentioned is 13. These
domains, situated in different nomes, were farms from
which the stock of food, vegetables, wines, etc.,
required for the mortuary offerings were procured.
The next sign is obscure, followed by the number 12,
and then 5 arouras of land are mentioned, with their
trees and a lake (?). The aroura of land was a measure
very nearly equal to T ths of an acre. In line 3 occur
the determinatives of provisions, a loaf of bread, a
cake and a jar of wine or beer followed by " pleasant
provisions for the altar table of Anubis upon-his-hill,
in the city of the pyramid of Senusert I, called ' the
protection of the places.' " It is interesting to find
the name of the pyramid of Senusert I, fj°f][]fi for
now the names of the pyramids of the first four
kings of the Xllth dynasty are known. That of
Amenemhat I is Ka nefer, of Senusert I Kheneni asut,
of Amenemhat II Kherp, and of Senusert II Hotep.
In line 4 biat cakes are mentioned, a special kind of
cake used in offerings, and 100,000 of ash grain, from
the table of provisions, and bed grains of incense for
burning in censers. In line 5, 40 birds of one kind are
mentioned, and 50 of another kind, together with
1000 cakes and loaves and 100 des jars of beer, and
50 portions of divine provisions (?) "for the King
of Upper and Lower Egypt Amenemhat I." In
line 6, Sebek lord of ... is named, and in line 7
"a great quantity of aa birds and 30 other birds."
In lines 8 and 9 the scribe has probably misread the
title of Ptah, and for n ■> Tenen, which is a title of
TT
Ptah, used in later times, has written
I:
In line 9,
consist of truly squared workmanship " for service
in the ritual of the temple of Ptah . . . lord of the
two lands." In line 10 is the name, with titles, of the
owner of the stele, " the superintendent of the city,
the Vezier and Chief Judge Ameny," followed by the
cartouche with part of the King's name, Amenemhat.
54. PI. VI. "(1) ... (2) ... his temple at
Luqsor, with his divine cycle following him. When
day dawned, and the 2nd day appeared (probably
^ ft*
<=> W ^t- to be supplied, as in Pap. D'Orbiney, II,
lines 5-6) ... (3) Thou art my son, my heir
who comest forth from my body, as 1 exist, so
thou existed, in the face of every land (?)...
(4) doubling their means of subsistence. They recog-
nise thee as my son, who comest forth from my body.
They are collected together for the purpose of giving
to thee . . . (s) He proceeded to the Royal house
and placed him at the head of it, over the great
house of his noble, eldest daughter H . . . (6) Amen.
Lo, behold Amen comes, with his son in front of him,
to the Palace, for the purpose of establishing the
crowns upon his head, and of making long his span
of life ... (7) He does that which satisfies thee. He
has turned his back upon evil, and has driven out
deceit from the land. His laws are firm in presenting
offerings each ... (8) Crowned with the nemes
crown, he has watched over the whole circumference
of all lands in one place. The great name of this
good god was fixed, his titles were given to him like
... (9) He has made as his monument for his
father Ptah South-of-his-wall, namely the making for
him of a stele, carved out of hard quartzite stone, in
front of this sanctuary . . . (10) Their ... of real
cedar for making glorious the house of birth, in order
that a processional path may be prepared (?) for his
father Ptah. He built for him a new temple . . .
(11) . . . all their excellent ... its columns of real
cedar, worked with precious stones from Syria, and
their capitals of electrum. There was made for it
a spacious hall, a tabernacle (?) (12) and a middle
chamber (? , * °\
He desired that he should be
nefert with a four-sided determinative is a new word ;
it may mean that the preceding objects have 4
good square supports at their corners, or that they
more magnificent than any future king . . ."
55. PI. VIII, 3. The King is smiting a foreign
enemy before Ptah. In the square there must have
been the King's two cartouches. Above the place
where one should be, is " The good god, lord of the
two lands." Above the other, " Son of the sun, lord
of the two lands." Below the square, " Endowed with
XIIth AND XVIIIth DYNASTY INSCRIPTIONS
19
life like Ra." Behind the King, " Every protective
amulet of life, like Ra." Beneath is the figure of a
man, and his sister kneeling, " Giving adoration to
Ptah-Sokar for his Ka. Made by the superintendent
of the serfs Ra-mes." "His sister, the lady of the
house, Uia."
4. A similar scene with " Ptah, [lord of] heaven,
lord of earth." "The Horus — mighty bull, son of
Turn. The King of Upper and Lower Egypt, lord
of the two lands. Men-Kheperu-Ra, the beloved of
Amen King of the Gods." "The Horus, mighty
bull, uniter of the diadems, son of the sun, lord of the
diadems, Thothmes [beloved of] Ptah lord of truth,
King of the two lands." Beneath is the name Ra-mes
with indistinct titles.
PI. X, 10. " O Ptah, listen to the prayer, made by
Amen-mes." ... 12. "MadebyTha . . ."probably
the man's name is constructed in the same manner as
that of Tha-hap-amu in PL XXXII. On the right
is " Ptah South-of-his-wall, lord of Memphis {ankh-
taut)."
PI. XI, 15. "Ptah, lord of truth, beautiful of
face, creator of [art]." Probably ¥ * is to be supplied.
Below is the common formula to " Ptah, the hearer of
petitions, made by ... " The name of Ptah, in the
centre, is written from left to right, whilst the in-
scription reads from right to left. 18. Three ears
occupy the upper line, whilst two ears are represented
in the lower line. In the narrow space left, the name
of Ptah is written, with its component letters one
below the other. 20. A man named Ra-mes, whose
titles may be supplied as " scribe of the house of . . .
of the two lands," is offering to Ptah and Sekhemet.
Down the right side of tablet, "... every day, a
span of life, without diminution ... his sister,
beloved of him, the lady of the house Tent-an." The
woman is kneeling before the offering tables, " giving
adoration to Ptah and Sekhemet, their ruler9 . . .
that she may grant life, prosperity and health, to the
Ka of the lady of the house Tent-an." Behind the
goddess Sekhemet there was probably " [Sekhemet]
beloved of [Ptah] to the Ka of the scribe of the house
of . . . [Ra-mes]."
PL XII, 21. " Ptah lord of truth," and name of the
man on the left, " overseer of the stone-workers (?)
lay." The man on the right is " the doorkeeper of
the ball . . . Huy." 23. The common formula to
" Ptah lord of all people, twice beautiful is the Ka . . .''
25. " Ptah [lord of] truth South-of-his-wall, the
glorious god, listen to the petitions made by." The
space following is left blank, evidently for the purpose
of allowing the purchaser of the tablet to fill in his
name. Many ushabti figures are found, with a space
left blank for the name of the owner to be filled in.
PI. XIII, 30. "Adoration to the Ka of Ptah,
lord of truth, the great one of might, the hearer of
petitions " " made by the scribe Mahui."
Inscription on 49, PL IX. " May the King give
an offering table to Ptah, lord of truth, beautiful of
face, the creator of art, the great one of might, upon
the great throne, in order that he may grant . . .
within his city, to the Ka of . . . giving ... to
Ptah South-of-his-wall, that he may grant pleasant-
ness of life within his house to the Ka of the superin-
tendent of . . . Ptah-mes."
PL XIV, 31. A man offering to Ptah. In front
of Ptah are his usual titles, and below, the common
formula with Ptah, "... A good span of life,
and a following ... for the scribe of . . . beloved of
his city, Ra deceased."
PL XV, 36. Ptah, lord of truth, in his shrine,
and behind the shrine stands Sekhemet, beloved of
Ptah. Here the name Sekhemet is correctly spelt
[cf. Erman, A.Z., l89i,p. 38). A man named Ra-mes,
and his wife " the lady of the house," are kneeling
before a table of offerings. 37. Merenptah offering
to Ptah in his shrine. In the centre at the top of
the tablet is the winged disc " the good god of
Edfu, lord of heaven." On the left is the cartouche of
Merenptah, " lord of the two lands, Ba-en-Ra, beloved
of Amen." Behind Ptah stands the goddess Astarte,
"lady of heaven, mistress of all the gods." 38. Four
gods are named, " Amen-Ra lord of the thrones of
the two lands " and " Khonsu " behind him, with
"Ptah lord of truth" and "Sekhemet beloved of
Ptah." 40, A. "The scribe, Ari-nefer." B. "The
lady of the house, Henut." The praiser (?) of Horus
lay." C. " Giving adoration to thy Ka, Amen-Ra
. . . imery." D. "The officer Neh-neh (?)." E.
" The officer of the making of offerings to the
gods Na . . ." F. " The goldsmith (?)." G. " Giving
adoration to Hapy-ankh ... to Ptah, that he may
grant a happy life, in conjunction with health of
body, full of joy every day for the Ka of the scribe
Ria." H. " His sister Huy." J, K, L. " Made by
the singer of Amen . . . the lady of the house,
Hery, . . . the lady of the house, Hert, daughter
of Sekhemy." " Made by the necropolis-workman (?)
Am-user and his son Neb-her." M. " Horus of the
North." N. " [Guardian] of the gate, Kha." O. " Made
by the ... of Ptah, and his son Sa-pa-ir." P.
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THE INSCRIPTIONS
"... the lady of the house, the singer of Amen,
Kiy." Q. " The officer . . .*' R. " Thothmes."
PI. XVI, 41. A woman offering before Min.
There are two trees behind the god. Min is frequently
figured with a peculiar shrine and trees behind him ;
for a very clear representation of this shrine, see
Athribis, Pis. XX and XXIII. 42. Amen-Ra in the
form of a ram with a fan behind him. Beneath is
a woman kneeling, before an offering table " made
by the lady of the house, Nehi, deceased." 43. In
the middle is the sign representing the orbit of the
sun, and on each side the two uzat eyes, which
frequently represent the sun and the moon. On
the left occurs the name Ahmes, the name of one
of the seated men ; and on the right apparently is
the name of the other man, but the strange arrange-
ment of signs does not look like a man's name.
In the centre the signs appear to be arranged in a
punning order, below the sign of the sun's orbit.
The middle space is left blank, above it the alpha-
betical signs nr occur, and below it the same signs
reversed, rn. The woman seated before a table
with food is "his daughter Meni." The woman
standing is named "Muy." 44. "Ahmes" is seated
on the left, whilst a man named " Renanen," in front
of him, holds a dish with burning incense in one
hand, and a vase with water flowing out in the
other hand.
PI. XVII, 45. Names and titles of Amen-Ra
and Mut, and of Ptah and Sekhemet. Three men,
the first of whom is named Huy with indistinct
titles ; the titles and name of the second are in-
distinct ; the third is the scribe Khar, or " the
Syrian." The woman is named Usert. Beneath is
a man with a censer named " the guardian, Rat,"
with his sister, the lady of the house, Naynaka."
The other man is named "the overseer of the
offerings, Ary," with " his sister Meryt " and " his son
Rama."
56. PL XVIII. Altar of Amenhetep. "The
hereditary prince, beloved of the god, the royal
scribe . . ." (1) " May the King give an offering
table to Sekhemet, the great one, beloved of Ptah,
lady of heaven and mistress of all the gods, in order
that she may grant (2) a good funeral after old age,
and a burial in the cemetery on the west of Memphis
to the Ka of (3) the hereditary prince, beloved of the
god, the royal scribe ... in Memphis, Amenhetep
deceased. (4) May the King give an offering table
to Ptah, lord of truth, the King of the gods, beautiful
of face, the one who is on the great [thrne], in
order that he may grant (5) a happy lifetime in
beholding his glories every day, without ceasing (6)
for the Ka of the hereditary prince, the treasurer
of the King of the North, the confidential friend,
(7) the royal scribe, his truly loved one, the great
superintendent of the house in Memphis, Amenhetep,
deceased."
57. PI. XXVI. 1. Inscription with cartouches of
Ramses II. "... the Royal Ka, lord of the two
lands, User-maat-Ra, Setep-en-Ra, endowed with life.
May they grant a spending of years with pleasure
of heart to the Ka of the hereditary prince . . .
the Royal Ka, lord of diadems, Ra-messu-mery-
Amen, like Ra. May they grant the receiving of
cakes, which come forth from the presence, to the
Ka of ... " 2. "... I have pacified the two
lands, consisting of people and all . . . Thy name
of Smiter of the Asiatics." 6. " All its circumference
in the embrace of his two arms, as well as all life,
stability and power of Anmutf, who adorns Ptah
and does the things which please him in the great
place ..." 7. The two cartouches of Set-nekht.
" User-khau-Ra, mery Amen, setep-en-Ra," and
" Set-nekht, mery Ra, merer Amen."
58. PI. XXXII. A new title for a nobleman is
used in this inscription \ | ^ ^T~' '* 1S evidently
formed on the plan of the title, which nobles fre-
quently gave themselves in their biographical in-
scriptions, " the eyes of the King of Upper Egypt,
and the ears of the King of Lower Egypt." Although
a noble might be "the King's brother," as the first
part of the title might read, it is impossible that he
could style himself "the father of the King of the
North," as the second part might read. I therefore
suggest, as the translation, " he whose brother is the
King of Upper Egypt, and whose father is the King
of Lower Egypt."
In the middle of the belt, " The worthy one
before Sokaris."
On left of middle, " The hereditary prince, the
general of the army, the great one of the great
ones, Tha-hap-amu, deceased."
On right of middle, " The hereditary prince, he
whose brother is the King of Upper Egypt, and
whose father is the King of Lower Egypt, Tha-
hap-amu, deceased."
On the back, these same titles repeated, with
the name, followed by "(1) May the King give an
offering table to Ptah South-of-his-wall, lord of
Memphis (ankh taut), and to Sokaris-Osiris, the great
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21
god, lord of the tomb. Funeral offerings to . . . (2)
He increased exceedingly the beautiful wall, it was
raised . . . the shrines of the gods. Offerings
were placed upon their altars, according to their
desires ... (3) his Ka for ever. He whose brother
is the King of Upper Egypt, and whose father is
the King of Lower Egypt, Tha-hap-amu. . . •
making a monument in the temple of Ptah, the
chapel of Horus (?). May his Kingdom be like
Ra in heaven, first amongst the living Kas."
59. Coptic and Greek. PI. LI I. In the middle of
the inscription the Coptic cross is written. The
translation is probably "The sakho Phaebammon."
For several instances of the word sakho, which is
also spelt sakha, see P.S.B.A., 1899, p. 249. The
meaning is " the learned man, or teacher." Dr. von
Lemm connects the word with ca2, and this may
account for the spelling in this inscription. Two
examples of the word occur, in Crum, Coptic Ostraca,
Nos. 36 and 133, and others in his Catalogue of
the British Museum Coptic Manuscripts.
PI. LI 1 1. Greek inscriptions.
1. "To the most prolific Nile. The Rhetor Alex-
ander."
4. " In the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost."
5. "of the skilled workmen."
Coptic inscriptions.
7. "Our brother (?)... The Father, and the
Son, and the Holy Ghost. Our Father Adam, and
all the righteous children. Our Lady Mother Mary,
our mother Eve. The patriarchal fathers, and the
prophets and the martyrs. The apostolic fathers.
The twenty-four elders. Our father Apa Apollo.
Our father Apa Peter. Our father Apa John. The
saint Apa Pgol (?) the saint Apa .... and all the
holy ones. [Remember] the soul of the deacon
[Apol]lo, who has died in peace. Amen."
In connection with the 24 elders, an interesting
list of names occurs, in the deserted Monastery of
Amba Samaan, see Recueil de Travaux, xv, p. 179.
Christ is seated on a throne with four long-winged
figures standing by His side, and 24 figures seated,
forming a frieze below. The names of these figures
are formed, each of a letter of the Coptic alphabet,
with the termination " ael " added on to it, thus
ending like the names of the archangels Michael,
Raphael, etc. There is a part of a similar, though
not identical, list of alphabetical names given to
them in Crum, British Museum Catalogue of Coptic
MSS., p. 418, No. 1007.
9. " The Saint Theodorus . . ."
10. " I Apollo (?)."
11. " Isaac . . ."
PI. LIV. Tombstones.
12. "The good God. Remember Apa Abraham,
the man of Panaho. He died on the 4th day of
Athyr, in peace. Amen."
Panaho, in Lower Egypt, was near Terenuthis,
on the Canopic branch of the Nile.
13. "The good God. Apa Thomas, Apa Peter,
Apa Joseph, Apa Anoub, Apa Pamoun, all the holy
ones. Remember Apa Victor, the man of Touhone-
souo (?). He died on the 4th day of Phamenoth,
in peace. Amen. Apa Victor, the man of Hage.
Amen. The 13th Indiction, the 15 th year."
Touhonesouo seems to be the name of the town
where the deceased Victor lived, unless nesouo is an
epithet of Touho, which was a town in middle
Egypt, called by the Arabs Taha, and by the Greeks
Theodosiopolis. Hage, where Victor, who put up
this stone in memory of his namesake, lived, is
mentioned in Zoega, p. 366. It was a mountain near
Apollinopolis Parva in Upper Egypt.
14. "The Father, and the Son, and the Holy
Ghost. Our father Apa Apollo. Our father Apa . .
Our father Apa John. The Saint Apa Pgol — all the
holy ones. Remember the soul of Pasanshenoute, the
man of Tahnou . . . (?). He died on the . . . day of . . ."
15. (1) "... the Holy Ghost. (2) . . . father
Micha ... (3) our Mother (4)
24 ... (s) (6) ... the Holy [Ghost ?]
(7) (8) our father
(9) "
16. " Jesus Christ. Our father Apa Apollo. Apa
Peter. Apa John. Remember my brother, the God-
loving John, the man of (?) . . ."
Sir Herbert Thompson has made a most in-
teresting suggestion to me, concerning the first line
of tombstone No. 7 on PI. LI 1 1. He proposes com
for eon at the end of the line, and suggests the
reading nricon e[,vrp]e neBcoM " the monk Hatre,
his brother." Several such additions are known, at
the bottom of a tombstone, where the man who
erected the stone to the memory of the deceased
records this fact. No other case seems to be known
of its occurrence at the top as here. neiicon and
riAcon are both commonly used, with the meaning
of " brother " in the sense of " monk," without any
possessive value for nen or nA. The most striking
proof of this is in the formula amok rucon, " I, the
monk," with the name following.
INDEX
Aahmes II, king, 2, 3, 4
Aahmes, private, 8, 20
Aay, 7
Agathodaimon on block, 13
Akkadian heads, 16
Alabaster colossus, 5, 10
inlaying, 12
Alexander the Rhetor, 15, 21
Altar of offerings, glazed, 14
Amen, ram of, 8
temple, 3
Amenemhat I, 7, 18
11,4
111,2
Amenhotep, 8, 20
Amen-mes, 19
Ameny, 7, 18
Am-user, 19
Ancientrauthorities, 1
Ankh-ef-ne-amen, 13
Ankh-ef-ne-mut, 13
Ankh-taui, 4, 6
Anubis shrine, 4
Apa Abraham, 21
Anoub, 21
Apollo, 20, 21
John, 20, 21
Joseph, 21
Pamoun, 21
Peter, 20, 21
Pgol, 20, 21
Thomas, 21
Victor, 21
Aper, temple of Osiris Sokar, 4
Aphrodite, foreign, 3, 4
Apis bull, 2, 8
temple of, 3
position of temple, 3
Apries, 4
Ari-nefer, 19
Arsinoe, 14
Ary, 20
Aryan Punjabi head, 16
Aseskaf, 2
Asklepion, 3
Astarte on tablet, 8, 19
Asychis built propylaia, 2
Aten adored, 4
Ater, name of Sacred Lake, 3
Athribis, antiquities from, 14, 15
Attys, 17
Auy, 13
Bacchic handles, 17
Badge of cavalry officers, 16
Bahti, 4
Bak-ne-ra, 7
Basalt outside of hall, 9
Bast playing lute, 12
temple, 4
Blue glazed pottery, 14
Bolt of bronze, 12
Bottles of glass, small, 1 5
Breccia statue, 13
Brick pit, position of, 3
Brother of the king, 20
Buttressing of cracked gateway, 1 1
Calcite beads, 12
Cambyses, 4
Captive countries, 10
Centre of civilisation at Memphis, 2
Ceremonial crosses, 1 5
Chain of bark, 1 5
Chisel, 12
Colossi, 5, 9
Colossus, 2
Columns, arrangement of, 5
23
24
INPVX
Columns, clustered, 10
engaged, 9
sizes, 9
Cones of blue pottery, 12
of rough pottery, 15
Coptic pottery, 15
Coronation stele, 18
Crosses, ceremonial, 1 5
Cufic glazed pottery, 1 5
Cypriote pottery, 1 1
Diodoros, 1
Drill cores, 14
Eagle of bronze, 1 5
Ears on tablets, 7, 8
Eastern propylaia, 2
Egyptian figures all women, 16
Egyptians, heads of, 16
Endowment stele, 7, 17, 18
Exploratory work, 4
Hathor Aphrodite, 3, 4, 12
of Hotep-hem, 12
of Nehat, 1 2
of Tepahu, 13
tablets of, 4, 1 2
temple, 3
Hatre, 21
Hatut, 4
Henut, 19
her zed medu, 1 3
Herford, Miss C, 1, 14
Herodotos, 1,2, 12
Hert, 19
Hery, 19
History of Memphis, 2
Hittites, 4
Hotep-hem, 12
House charm, 13
model, 13
Hutch for mouse, 13
Huy, 7, 8, 19
Hypostyle hall, 3
False doors of granite, 8
Fat, 4
Fish-harpoon, 15
Foreign Aphrodite, 3, 4
Foreigners, portrait heads of, 15
Fortress plan hieroglyph, 3
Foundation deposits, 8
Fuat, 4
Funeral sacrifice, 10
lay, 19
Imhotep temple, 3
Indian civilisation, early, 17
colony in Memphis, 17
contact with Europe, 17
heads, 16
Inscriptions translated, 17
Isaac, 21
Isis temple, 3
Island figure, 12
Gate of camp, 12
Gateway of Merenptah, 3
Glazed tile of Sety II, 12
Gods of Memphis, 2
Gonimotatos, epithet of Nile, 1 5
Granite colossi, 5, 10
Greek archaic head, 17
heads, 17
pottery, early, 3
Gregg, Mr., I, 10
Hage, 21
Handles of craters, 17
Hapamu or Thahapamu, 13, 21
Jewish trader, head of, 16
Jews' quarter, 4
Ka of gods, 7
of kings adored, 10
Kabiri temple, 4
Kafr el Qala', 1
Karnak, temple of, 2
Khaemuas, 8, 10, 11
Kharu, 8, 20
Khnum temple, 4
Khred-ne-mut, 13
Kiln for pottery, 14
Kinyra played on, 17
INDEX
25
Kiy, 20
Kom el Qala', 3
Hellul, 14
Lamp and holder, 12
Lamps of 200 A.D., 14
Leather-worker's knife, 15
Limestone casing-stones, 6
colossus, 5
Lion of bronze, 1 2
Lion's paw spout, 9
scalp a badge, 16
London compared in size, 1
Lotus capitals, 6, 1 1
Macedonian head, 17
Mackay, Mr., 1
Mahuati, 7 ; or Mahui, 19
Makaukas, John, 2
Mask of pottery, 14
Measures, 12
Menat, 8 ; or Meni, 20
Menes founded Memphis, 2
Merenptah, gateway of, 3, 1 1
inscription of, 9
tablet of, 8, 19
Mer-ra, 8
Meryt, 8, 20
Methen, 18
Mitrahineh, 9
Moiris built propylaia, 2
Moulds for amulets, 12
Museums receiving objects, 8, 12, 15
Muy, 20
Nana-uab, 8
Naynaka, 20
Neb-her, 19
Nefertum statuette, 14
Nehat, 12
Nehati, 8
Nehi, 20
Nehneh, 19
Neit temple, 3
Nekht-hor-heb, 13
Nile, most prolific, 15, 21
Northern propylaia, 2
Nurse of royal son, 12
Offering of bread rolls, 8
Offerings, table of, 6
Onyx disc, 12
Osiris-Sokar temple, 4
Pa-hennu, the Serapeum, 3
Palm capital, 9
Panaho, 21
Pa-penat, temple at, 4
Pasanshenoute, 21
Pa-ta-yaht, 4
Pellets of burnt clay, 1 1
Persian cavalry officer, 16
empire, greatness of, 16
Great King, head of, 16
Phibamon, 15, 21
Phoenician Tyrians, 3
Physkon, 14
Piy,7
Pond, clearance of, 9
Pottery figures painted, 11, 17
of 300 B.C., 14, 15
Primitive settlement, 2
Proteus, temenos of, 3, 1 1
Psametek I, 2, 3
Ptah, temenos of, 2
temple of, 2
Ptah Tanen, 9, 18
Ptahmes, 7, 19
Ptolemy IV, 2, 14
V,3
IX, 14
Pumping water, 9
Pyramids, casing from, 6, 9
Qen, 8
Quartzite, 13
Ram of Amen, 8, 20
Rames, 7, 18, 19
Ramessu II, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20
111,2,9, 10
Ranuser, 6
Ra-shepses, 6
Rat, 20
Ray, statue of, 8
Renanen, 20
Rhampsinitos, 2
/
26
INDEX
Rolls of bread offered, 8
Roma, 8, 20
Roman heads, 17
Rope binding on columns, 10
Rubbish thrown in court, 11
Sacae figures, 17
Sacred Lake, 3
Sakho, a teacher, 21
Scarabs found, 13
unfinished, 1 1
Schuler, Herr, 1
Scythian figures, 17
Sebek, 4
Sekhemy, 19
Sekhmet, reading of name, 8
temple, 4
Semitic head, 16
Senusert I, pyramid of, 7, 18
Sesostris, 2
Set figured, 10
Set-nekht, 10, 20
Set-nen-nefer-tum, 13
Sety I, statue, 2
II, tile, 12
Shabaka chapel, 10
Sha-ne-ba, 13
Siamen, building of, 12, 13
Sickle flints, 12
Sipairi, 8, 19
Size of Memphis, 1
Skew front of hall, 5
South propylaia, 2
Spur, 15
Stadium in Egypt, 1
Statues, colossal, 2
Steatite discs and scarabs, 12
Stilts for kilns, 15
Strabo, 2, 3
Strainers, 12
Street lines, 1 1
Sumerian heads, 16
Sun-temple at Abusir, 6
Supports in kilns, 14
Syrian head, 16
Tablets of XVIIIth dynasty, 7
with ears, 7, 8
Taha, 21
Tahayba, 13
Tahuti temple, 4
Tahutmes I, 7
IV, 7
Ta-nenuny, 12
Tent-an, 19
Terra-cotta heads, 1 5
Teta, lintel of, 6
Tha-hap-amu, 20
Thent-ant, 7
Theodoras, 21
Tibetan head, 16
Touho, 21
Trial pieces, 13, 14
Trinity, dedication, 15, 21
Tweezers, 15
Uaat, 7
Uafet, 4
Uah-ka, Prince, 6
Uia, 19
Usert, 8, 20
Vase working, 14
Views of West Hall, 9
Wainwright, Mr., 1
Walker, Dr. J. H., 17
Wall enclosing camp, 1 1
hieroglyph, a fortress, 3
Ward, Mr., 1
Washing troughs, 1 1
Waste beads, 1 1
Wasters from kilns, 14
West Hall, 5
propylaia, 2
White Wall fortress, 3
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IX.
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XVII.
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XXI.
VIEW ACROSS TEMENOS OF PTAH IN WINTER.
POND ON SITE OF EARLY TEMPLE OF PTAH.
ACROSS WEST COURT LOOKING NORTH.
PUMPING OUT THE POND.
NORTH OUTSIDE OF WEST COURT, BASALT FOOT, AND VIEW LOOKING EAST.
MEMPHIS. WEST HALL OF RAMESSU II.
XXII.
MAIN DOOR WAY
ADDED INSCRIPTION OF MERENPTAH.
PALM CAPITAL CONVERTED INTO
ENGAGED COLUMN.
ENGAGED COLUMN OF LIMESTONE.
MEMPHIS. WEST HALL, SCULPTURE OF RAMESSU II.
XXIII.
BASE X>F FORE-STANDING COLOSSUS.
SIDE OF BASE OF COLOSSUS.
MEMPHIS. SCULPTURES OF RAMESSU II.
XXIV.
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XXV.
GRANITE COLUMN, WEST HALL, RAMESSU II.
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XXIX.
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THE PYRAMIDS AND TEMPLES OF GIZEH. (Out of print.)
TANIS I. 19 pi., 2$s. Quaritch.
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NAUKRATIS L 45 pl-, *5-f- Quaritch.
HIEROGLYPHIC PAPYRUS FROM TANIS. (Out of print.)
A SEASON IN EGYPT, 1887. 32 pi. (Out of print.)
RACIAL PORTRAITS. 190 photographs from Egyptian Monuments, 63*. Murray, 37, Dartmouth Park
Hill, N.W.
HISTORICAL SCARABS. (Out of print.)
HAWARA, BIAHMU, AND ARSINOE. (Out of print.)
KAHUN, GUROB, AND HAWARA. (Out of print.)*
ILLAHUN, KAHUN, AND GUROB. 33 pl-. i«* (Out of print.)*
TELL EL HESY (LACHISH). 10 pi, lOS. 64. Alexan4er Watt.
MEDUM. 36 pi. (Out of print.)
TEN YEARS' DIGGING IN EGYPT, 1881-1891. 6s. R.T.S.
TELL EL AMARNA. (Out of print.)*
KOPTOS. 28 pi., 10s. Quaritch.
A STUDENT'S HISTORY OF EGYPT. Part I., down to the XVIth Dynasty. 5th ed. 1903. Part II.,
XVIIth and XVIIIth Dynasties. Part III., XlXth to XXXth Dynasties. 6s. each. Methuen.
TRANSLATIONS OF EGYPTIAN TALES. With illustrations by Tristram Ellis. 2 vols., 35. 64. Methuen.
DECORATIVE ART IN EGYPT. 3* «* Methuen.
NAQADA AND BALLAS. 86 pi., 255. Quaritch.
SIX TEMPLES AT THEBES. 26 pi., 10s. Quaritch.
DESHASHEH. 37 pl-, 25*. Quaritch.
RELIGION AND CONSCIENCE IN EGYPT. 2s. 64. Methuen.
SYRIA AND EGYPT. 2s. 64. Methuen.
DENDEREH. 38 pi., 25*. ; 40 additional plates, \os. Quaritch.
ROYAL TOMBS OF FIRST DYNASTY. 68 Pl., 25*. Quaritch.
DIOSPOLIS PARVA. 48 pl. (Out of print.)
ROYAL TOMBS OF EARLIEST DYNASTIES. 63 pl., 255. 3 35 additional plates, ioj. Quaritch.
ABYDOS. Part I. 81 pl., 255. Quaritch.
ABYDOS. Part II. 64 pl., 25*. Quaritch.
METHODS AND AIMS IN ARCHAEOLOGY. 66 blocks, 6s. Macmillan.
EHNASYA. 25*. Quaritch.
ROMAN EHNASYA. ioj. Quaritch.
RESEARCHES IN SINAL 186 illustrations and 4 plans, 21.?. John Murray.
HYKSOS AND ISRAELITE CITIES. 4° pl-, 25*. ; with 48 extra plates, 45*. Quaritch.
RELIGION OF ANCIENT EGYPT. is. Constable.
GIZEH AND RIFEH. 40 pl., 25*. ; with 69 extra plates, 50*. Quaritch.
ATHRIBIS. 43 Pl-, 25-f- Quaritch.
PERSONAL RELIGION IN EGYPT BEFORE CHRISTIANITY. 2s. 64. ; in leather, 3s. 64. Harper.
MEMPHIS. Part I. 54 pl, 255. Quaritch.
QURNEH. 56 pl. (In preparation)
MEMPHIS. Part II. {In preparation.)
Of works marked * a few copies can be had on application to the Author, University College, London.
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