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 proper name of the fortress, like one names "Tahutmes III the encloser of the Sati" (Annals, L.D. iii, 32, line 21). The name Qaza … might be conjecturally restored, Qa-za-ua-da-na (Müller, Asien und Europa, 335), a vassal land of the king of the Khita; here it might be a town of the land of Qa-za-ua-da-na, the well-known "town of the Kanaan" is a parallel to this.

Fig. 8. Sandstone tablet of "The good god Tahutmes IV endowed with life" before "Amen-Ra lord of heaven" offering bread. Amen says, "I have settled the vile Kush, I have guided his majesty in his victories." If the construction of these parallel inscriptions is treated aright here, these tablets were dedicated in the temple of Tahutmes IV in honour of his victories in Syria and Ethiopia.

43. Fig. 1. Wooden ushabti of Nehi, the well-known viceroy of Ethiopia, under Tahutmes III, with the usual text, "O, thou figure, if the viceroy of Ethiopia Nehi is ordered to do works that are done there in the nether world as it is his duty (?), to cultivate the fields, to irrigate the banks, to carry the sand of the east to the west, [say] I am here!"

Fig. 2. Part of an ushabti figure (?) inscribed, "[Lord] of the two lands, Tahutmes I, beloved of Amen of Karnak."

Fig. 3 is an alabaster figure of Amenhotep II from his temple.

Plate III, Figs, 1, 2, 3, 5. "The good god Amenhotep II, beloved of Amen."

Fig. 4. "The good god Amenhotep II, endowed with life."

Fig. 19. Part of a glazed tube gives to Amenhotep III the title, "beloved of the cycle of nine gods of the royal jubilees." This jubilee is named also on Figs. 14 ("great in jubilees"), 15 ("rich in jubilees"), and 16, 18.

Fig. 23. Wine stamp of limestone, reading, "Wine of the west river," that is, the Canopic branch of the Nile. (Brugsch. Geog. 88).

Fig. 24. A stamp cut in pottery reading, "House of Aten."

Fig. 25. "Aa . kheperu . ra shining upon the throne of Ra." This scarab was probably made in honour of the coronation day of Amenhotep II, for kha seems—amongst other meanings—to be used for the enthronement of a king.

Fig. 26. Prenomen of Amenhotep III.

Fig. 27. "The divine wife of Amon …"

44. Fig. 5. "Amenhotep II." Fig. 6. "Year 26, Vine dresser Pinehas."

VIII. Fig. i. Piece of a rude stele, with "the good god Tahutmes IV" adoring a Syrian war goddess on horseback. I should be inclined to think, from existing indications, that this is the goddess Asit (Müller, Asien und Europa, 316).

Fig. 2. Table of offerings. Left hand, "Offering which the king gives to Osiris Khentamenti, the Great God, Lord of Abydos, that he may give all offerings, all provisions, all good and pure things to the Osiris Tás-nub, the deceased." Right hand, "Offering which the king gives to Osiris Un-nefer the Great God, the Prince of Eternity, that he may give all offerings, all provisions, and all good and pure things to the ka of the Osiris Tas-nub the deceased." Below is the full title, "The Osiris, singer of the harim (hes khenu) Tás-nub." Usually the title is singer of the harim of Amen, and that might be lost in the erasure, if written with n in an oval. As this title only occurs in this orthography between the XXIInd and XXVIth dynasty, so far as I know, it would give an approximate age for the tablet.

Fig. 3. A tablet, found in the temple of Merenptah, "made by the watchman of the temple of millions of years (the Ramesseum) Pen-rannut, the deceased, of Thebes," who adores "the able spirit of Ptaḥ-ḥes" who is seated before him.

Fig. 4. Tablet held by a kneeling figure, in grey granite, "Praise to Ra in [his] rising … till his setting in the west, [by] the royal scribe Sesh (or Nai), the deceased. [I] come to thee, praised be thy beauties (read nefruk) … praised be thy soul always (r terui), grant [me] to be in the nether world every day."

45. Fig. 1. Limestone tablet, reused in the buildings of the forecourt of Tahutmes IV. "An offering which the king gives to Osiris Khentamenti, the Great God, Lord of the Necropolis, that he may give the funeral sacrifice of bread, beer, oxen, geese, linen cloths, vegetables, oil, thousands of all good and pure things, offerings, provisions, liquids, and all vegetables, which the heaven gives, the earth creates, and the Nile brings out of his source; [that he may give] the sweet wind of the north, and the drink from the whirlpool (?) of the river to the ka of the follower of his word on water and on land, in the foreign lands of the south and of the north. The fighter against the lands of the barbarians, who chastises every one who is revolting against the king in the land of the Retenu, filling the heart of the Good God, Athu-usir. He says, 'O, you living ones on earth, every priest, every scribe, every reciter who beholds this statue, the