The Recent Discovery At Thebes.

20 . Mummy-case of P-hir-petti , servant of the Necropolis . Twentieth Dynasty . —21 . Mummy and mummy-case ; the mummy-case of unpainted wood , bearing a Royal effigy , of ivhich the eyes , beard , sceptre , whip , and Royal asp are painted black . On the breast two cartouches , which read Rameses Mer-Amen , Ra-user-ma Sotep-en-Ra . "It is this personage , " writes M . Maspero" whom it has been sought to identify with Rameses II . I see

, many difficulties in the way of such identification , the chief being that the mummy-case , which is of very fine workmanship , bears every characteristic of the Twentieth Dynasty , as for instance , in the orthography of the cartouches , in which we find the special form of N ( a hieroglyph re ] : > resenting the Crown symbolical of Lower Egypt ) , which Avas in favour at that time . The face of the effi in which it was invariably sought to present a likeness of the

gy , deceased , in no wise resembles the aquiline ancl well-known features of Rameses II . In the absence of further evidence , this mummy may , therefore , be accepted as that of Rameses XII ., of the Twentieth Dynasty , the namesake of Rameses II ., and the Pharaoh of the Stela of Bakhtan . " 22 . Mummy-cases ( two ) ancl mummy of Queen Notemit , wife of Her-Hor , the first Priest-King .

23 . Two mummy-cases aud mummy of the Hig h Priest of Amen , Pinotem son of Piankhi , gaudson of Her-Hor . 24 . Mummy of Pinotem II ., son of the foregoing ; found in the mummycase of Arnenhotep I . 25 . Two mummy-cases , cartonnacje , and mummy of . the High Priest of Amen , Head of the Archers , of Upper ancl Lower Egypt , Masahirti , son of Pinotem II . His statue is at Brussels .

26 . Two mummy-cases of Queen Hathor Hin-Taui . 27 . Three cases and mummy of Queen Ast em-af , daughter of Masahirti , married to her uncle Menkheperra . Also a funeral papyrus of this Queen in an Osirian statuette , four canopic vases , three boxes containing libation-vases , and a large canopy of cut leather . The inscriptions show her to have been a grand-daughter of Pinotem and the mother of Pinotem III . 28 . Two mummy-cases usurped by the Princess Nesi-Khonsu , daughter of

the Lady Tahonnoo Thouti . , 29 . A double sarcophagus containing the mummies of two Queens , named Makera and Maut-em-hat ; also a papyrus of Queen Makera . 30 . Two mummy-cases usurped by the bocly of a Royal son of Rameses , named T'ot Ptah-fonkh . 31 . Mummy-case of one Noi-Shounap .

32 . Mummy-case and various objects belonging to the Lady Nesi-Tanebasheru . 33 . Mummy-case of a Lady Hati , usurped by the Lady Ta-hirt , The presence of these last three personages in the midst of so many Kings ancl Queens is explained by their titles , all being attached to the worship of Amen , and connected probably with the reigning family of the line of

Priest-Kings . Summing up the foregoing , M . Maspero attributes this assemblage of mummies of various periods to two causes—1 . They were first concealed in consequence of the great tomb robberies which took place during the reign of Rameses IX . The tomb of Arnenhotep I . ivas precisely one of those attacked at that period ; but the robbers failed to break their way into it . Everything noiv indicates that his tomb must have been situate in the necropolis near Koorneh , and that it was in the midst of tombs of Kings of the ancient dynasties of the Thebaic ! , as well as of Kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty .

Secondly . Judging from the actual condition of the objects , it would seem that several mummies ivere already missing at the time of removal , their tombs having been pillaged , like those of the King ancl Queen mentioned in the Abbott papyrus . This is certain as regards Queen Mashont-ti-moo-hoo , and seems probable as regards Thotmes III ., Rameses I ., Seti I ., & c . The