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William C Hayes

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INSCRIPTIONS FROX THE PALACE O F AMENHOTEP 111

WILLIAM C HAYES

WE COME now to groups of objects ~vhich unlike the jar-labels and the jar- and document-sealings

dealt ~vith in the earlier articles of this series393 Ivere made and inscribed in the vorkshops of the palace itself either for the use of its inmates or for the adornment of its buildings In each category of ob- jects Jve shall consider only those ex-amples which bear inscriptions in the generally accepted sense of the word- texts formulas names titles epithets- leaving the numerous motto designs and decorative motifs to a future publication

V F A Y C N C E FINGER RINGS

Among the more popular items of

easily broken it is unlikely that they were intended as seals or even as real pieces of jewelry hut rather that they were dis- tributed as favors on the occasions of festivals banquets and the like and in- cluded among the funerary equipment buried in the tombs of the dead397 Though almost always fragmentary such rings have survived in enormous quantities and since they frequently bear royal names and titles often throw considerable light on the histories of the sites in which they occur398 This is particularly true of the numerous rings found at Tell el Amarna3qg and of the 490 inscribed examples recov- ered from the palace of Amenhotep 111at ~ h ~ b ~ ~

costume je~velry affected by the E g ~ ~ - The latter of blue green purple or tians of the late Eighteenth Dynasty violet faience exhibit a fairly limited were reproductions in glazed frit of the number of types p i g 34 R 1-22] ~h~~~ metal signet rings current at this p e r i ~ d ~ ~ ~ ~ hovever numerous minor variations Like their models the faience rings are provided vith oval lozenge-shaped or rectangular bezels fused to or molded in one piece ~ i t h the rings In many cases the molds used for the faience ring-bezels appear to have been taken di- rectly from actual signet fact which adds immeasurably to their inter- est and and manu-factured the fayence rings yere equally

393 J S E S X 35-56 82-111 156-83

3 9 4 See above p 166 and n 332 Faence rings with relief and openwork designs comprising all manner of amuletic and decorative devices were also common but these do not concern the present discussion

39 see ~ z t yI ~ 1 sx 3 XI 3 XIII 1 6 c z t y I I Pls XXIX 5 XLVI 3 Hall Catalogue of Egyp t zan Scarabs I 273-81 passzm Petrie Scarabs and Cylzn- derh PIS XXXIV-XXXVII passzm Objecls of Dazly Use P1 XII 56-64

3 9 6 see Czty 11p 114 and on ring molds in general 4 marna P 28

in size and style Tithin the individual types and it is clear that many different molds Ivere used in producing each of the

varieties of bezels illus- trated

R 1 comprising 396 is by far the most common type is folloIved in

order of frequency by Ivith 34 ex-amples R 2 Tvith 20 examples R 13 (19 examples) R 10 (16 examples) R 3 (12 examples) R 14 is represented by 5 ex-

3 9 7 One hundred and forty-three faience flnger rings were found in the tomb of Tutcankhamfin (Engelbach A n n Serv XL 161 n 1 ) See also BruyBre Fouzlles XV 68-69

3 9 8 Their value as indexes of date is enhanced by the fact that they were usually broken and discarded a few months after their manufacture and did not like scarabs and other more durable objects survive from one reign to another

J y See lrnarna p 43 ( it^ I pp 2 114

231

amples R 6 and 12400 by 4 examples each R 8 by 3 examples 114N159 15 and 16 1)y 2 examples each and R 7 and 17-22 1)y the single specimens shown in the draw- ings

All told there are 451 bezels bear- ing the names of Amenhotep 111 (Nebma~rE~)[396] Nebmacrampc Image of Rampc [j]or Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes [50]) 32 bearing the name of Queen Tiy 2 with the name of Queen Sitamfin2 1 with the name of Amen- hotep IV ((Neferkheprurec Wacenre) 2 with the names of SmenkhkarF (cAnkhkheprurampcH and cAnkhkhepruramp Beloved of WacenrF) and 1 each with the names of Tutcankhamfin (Nebkhep- rurampc) and Queen ~Ankhesenpaaten

Types R 18-22 and 2 examples each of Types R 1 3 12 and 13 are from Tytus work in the Palace of the King (see Fig lj4Ohnd are noy in the Brooklyn r I u ~ e u m ~ ~ ~The others are in the Metro- politan SIuseum of Art4u5 having come from the Museums excavations of 1910- 204j The bulk of these are from the Palace of the King and its subsidiary buildings The ruins of the South Palace produced 125 rings including 6 of the 32 examples with the name of Queen Tiy

400 The two examples of R 12 represented by the drawing of Fig 34 are of purple fdence with the in- scription incrusted in pale-green glaze

401 In both examples of R 4 the bezel is a n open- work design molded in apple-green faIence Here the prenomen of Amenhotep I11 is written with the nb-sign surmounted by a seated Agure of the falcon- headed sun-god RCholding the feather mt (Petrie Scarabs and Cvlinders PI YXXIV 118 Historical Scarabs No 1178 Cf above p 158 and 11 280)

402 R 17 and a n example published by Xewberry in P S B A XXIV 247

103 See above n 3

404 kccession Nos 486620 21 47 48 and unacces- sioned M y thanks are again extended to Mr Cooney for drawing my attention to this material and permit- ting me to publish i t

405 Accession hos 1121569-76 78-89 124 and unaccessioned

40 Bee above n 1 The rings and other small ob- jects found by Daressy in the palace ( A n n Seru I V 16s) appear not to have been published

The faience and glass factories40i of the South Tillage yielded 99 examples and those of the Tillage Area west of the Xortll Palace 14 more Thirty fragmentary rings were found in the southern rubbish mounds and one example (of Type R 6) in the Temple of Amfin

The finding of sixteen rings with the name of Tiy as against every one with the name of Sitamfin is in direct contrast to the evidence of the jar-labels where the ratio is at least two to one in favor of the younger queen408 This is perhaps at-tributable to the fact that the jar-labels in question all date from the last ten years of the reign while the rings come without exception from the older buildings of the palace group and may therefore be sup- posed to reflect an earlier period in the history of the palace-a period when Tiy alone was the Kings Great TTTife and Sitamfin was only a senior princess

Taken in conjunction with the evidence of the jar-labels of Type 6409 the docu- ment sealings of Types S 124 and 125O and the Atenist erasures in the palace in- s c r i p t i o n ~ ~ ~ ~ cer-the ring-bezels R 18-22 tainly indicate that the palace of Amen- hotep I11 was occupied during the reigns of Akhenaten Smenkhkarec and Tut-ankha am fin To what extent it was occu- pied by these kings themselves is less cer- tain Akhenaten appears to hare resided in it during the first five years of his core- gency with his father4I2 and again-prob- ably briefly-in the twelfth year of his reign413 Smenkhkarec was apparently

40 Tytus Preliminarv Report p 25 iYew- berry J E 4 TI 156 Winlock Bull M M A 1912 PP 185 187 White Bz~l i l f l f J 1915 p 254

40 See above p 98

409 See above Fig 4 and pp 35 88 41deg See above Fig 33 and p 177

See above p 37 and below pp 236 238 See also Tytus o p c i t p 10 and L a n s i n ~ Bull l f J I 4 March 1918 Supplement p 12

See above pp 35 37 88 3 See above p 180

INSCI~IPTI(IXSFROM THE P

Iluriecl a t Thehes and may have lived there for a few months preceding his death414 I t is not unlikely that Tut-cankhamfin occupied the Malkata palace upon his return to Thebes though the evidence for this is admittedly slight The name of his wife appears zs we have seen on two small monuments from the palace on a ring-bezel (R 22) in its earlier form ~Ankhesenpaaten and on a document sealing (S 125) as cAnkhesenamfin The latter name -as adopted by the young queen follo~ving her husbands reversion to the worship of Bmnn an event which apparently took place sometime after the return of the royal couple to Thebesj

With the exceptions of R 4 and R 7 all the ring-bezels from the palace of Amen- hotep I11 are duplicated or closely paral- leled hy example found at Tell el Amarna 41G

V1 SCARABS COTILOIDS PLAQUES

AM17LETSA S D MOLDS

The lower half of Figure 34 (R 23-44) reproduces the inscriptions on forty-one assorted seals amulets and molds found for the most part in or near the Palace of the King either by Tytus in 1902i or by mTinlock in 1910-11~5It 37 and 38 are from the southern rubbish mounds anti R 25 42 and 43 form part of a string of amulets discovered in the complex of 1)uiltiings east of the Palace of the King Lansings field notes for the season of 1917--18 record the finding of two ex-amples of R 31 and a steatite scarah of Queen Tiy419 in the Village Area n-est of the Sor th Palace

The scarabs (R 24-28 31 32 35-39) are of blue or green glazed steatite or

6 Engelbach -4 n n Serc S L 135 137-39 148 f f Pendlebury Te l l el-4 m a r n a pp 9 28

Engelbach op c i t pp 160 f f

ltImarna PI S I T - 10-19 21 22 24 50-55 PlX90)1 91-101 103 110

$ 5 See above n 3 IhSee above 11 1

more rarely of blue faience (R 24 and 3 ex- amples of R 28) the cowroids (R 29) of blue faience the plaques of blue faience (R 33 [l example] 41) yellow faience (R 23) green glazed steatite (R 33 14 ex- amples]) or green paste (R 40) the frog- amulets (I330 34) of blue faience the fish-amulets (R 42 43)4n of blue or green glazed steatite and the molds (R 44) of hard fine-grained reddish-brorr-n pot-tery 42

There are six examples of R 28 five ex- amples of R 33 four examples each of R 31 and R 44 three examples of R 29 two examples each of R 30 34 and 36 and one example of each of the other types The pieces from Tytus n-ork (R 23 26 27 39 40 one example of R 28 and three examples of R 44) are now in the Brooklyn 1 Iu~eum~~ The rest are in the iLletropolitan rIuseum of Art424

Duplicates or close parallels to R 24-42 I ill he found in I-Ialls Catalogue o j hgyp-tian Y r a r ~ b s ~ ~ ~ in S e n berrys Scarabs4

fl 18X 13x 09 cm Similar to Kewberry Scarab-shaped S e a l s S o 36234 and Hall o p c i t Kos 1929-30 According to Chron d 2 E g VII 123 there is in the Kcstner JIuseum in Hanover UII petit scarabolde de Taya provenant du palais dAlnAno- phis 111

See Reisner i lmu l t t s Nos 12451-86 Pis XSIII-AKXIV Petrie A m u l c t s No 18 PI 11

47 See Reisner o p cit Sos 12488-90 PI S A Y I T Lanzone Diz ionar io p 50 No 12

2 See d m a r n o p 28 The molds with the impres- sion of Type R 44 are roughly rectangular lumps of pottery averaging 34 cm in length 25 cm in u-idth and 12 cm in tllickness I n addition to these there are two molds (XIJIA Acc 11215699 700) for producing falence ornaments in the form of a hunch of grapes ( i l m a r n a PI XI-Y) with the prerlolnerl- cartouche of Ameuhotep I11 (SebmaCr6) vertical in the center of the drsign ( ley I n s c h r B e r l i n 11 261 No 9473) Thegt- were found in 1911 near the Palace of the King

a 3 Accession iYos 486622 23 and unaccessioned

4 4 Accession Nos 112152-9 18-22 29 37 38 52 54 55 207 216 12180384 and unaccessioned

2 i Y ~ ~ 611-29 (R 24) 851-53 (R 25) 1003 (R 26) 1754-59 (R 29) 1760 (R 30) 1753 2852 (R 31 32) 1761 (R34) 1796 1797 (R351 1787-90 (R 361 1814 (R 371 1149 iR 38) 1623 (R 39) 637 638 (R 42)

2 Pls X X l S 41 iR 24) S X S 2 (R 38) 26 iR 291 27 (R 28) 39 (R 36) 30 ( H 37)

a Scnmb-shaped Seals4 and in Petries Flistorical qcarab~~~ and Scarabs and Cyl-i n d e r ~ ~ ~From the parallels occurring in these publications it would appear that R 39 is to be read Sebma~rEc Idion of Rulers (nz3i hamp[w]) 430 The roughly cut legend of the fish-amulet R 43 is pre- sumably the name of a divinity-possibly that of the Syrian god Resheph (Rsptn) The inscription of the molds R 44 ((Neb- maCrFl Lord of Secl-festivaljs] may be compared with those of the document- sealingsof Figures 31 and 32 (S 24-2759) The little cartouche-shaped plaque-pen- dant R 23 contains the first part of the (didactic name of the god Aten in its earlier form (RP lives Harakhte who rejoices [on the Horizon])432 and is paral- leled I)y numerolls examples found at Tell el 14marna433

Little of historical value is to be de- rived from these small monuments The hcaarahs of Thutmose I11 may have been niade in the reign of Amenhotep I11 (see ZAS S L I 70) or may have been heir- looms inherited by inmates of the palace from their grandparents or great-grand- parents B y themselves they are certainly not evidence that the palace area was ever occupied bp Thutmose I11 or his contemporaries The molds of Type I1 44

lsquobias 36106 (R 24) 36209 36220 36222 iR 31 32 36211 36224 36225 (R 28) 36685 ff (R 42)

4laN0S 1171 (R 29) 1179 (R 301 1183 (R 31-33) 11x5 (R 28) 1239 (R 37) 1241 (R 38) 1245-47 (R 36) 1255 (R 39) 1275 (R 42) 1283-84 (R 33)

4 2 9 PIS XXVI 8 9 R 24) XXVII 49 (R 26) SXVIII 7 6 8 0 (R 24) XSXIII 48-51 (R 28) 58 (R 39) 60 (R 36) X S X I V 75-82 (R 30) 88 89 91 (R 29) SXXV 126 (R 33) 139 (R 41) See also h a h u n Gurob and FIavara PI 99111 1 10 11 12 I111 I l i a h u n R a h u n an11 Guroh Pl XXIII 9 15 17 19

f loSee Varllle Bull I n s t fr Cazre XXSV 167 n 3 IIzcronl Text Brzt Afur -I11 (rd Edwards) 14 PI 91 Ff the pt xonal name mi-n-hamp3io (Ranhe P r r s o n ~ n n a m r n I 144 7)

rsi For the wr~ting of the name see a b o ~ e p 158 arid n 280

Srthe Yachr Goitznurn 1921 p 113 Gunn J E I I S 168-76 esp p 173

3 3 3 l m a l n a PI X l V 65 ff

were probably used on the occasion of one of Amenhotep 111s Sed-festivals to pro- duce small faience plaques commemorat- ing the event The plaque with the name of the god Aten (R 23) tends to support the evidence already adduced that the palace was a t one time occupied by an Atenist pharaoh or his follo~vers

VII INSCRIBED FA~ENCEVASES KOIIL-

TUBES AND OIHEH SMALL OBJECTS

Winlocks excavations of 1910-12 in the Palace of the King and the buildings to the east ancl west of it yielded the frag- ments of a quantity of small objects chiefly of faience which are perhaps more interesting for their variety than for the inscriptions which they bear Most of these are in the Metropolitan AIuseum and are illustrated in Figure 35434 Their dimensions may be determined from the centimeter scale a t the bottom of the il- lustration

Fragments (a) (Fig 34 scale 12) arid (b) are sections of model throw-sticks of blue faience a type of amulet well known from tombs and temples of the Eighteenth Dynasty433 but rarely found in the drvell- ings of the living436 Both pieces are in- scribed in black with portions of the nomen-cartouche of Amenhotep I11 (Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes) in one case (a) surmounting a m - s y m b o l and accompanied by the wampf-eye above

4 3 4 LIMA Acc Nos 11215371 495 503 504 508 509 510 511 512 518 519 520 530 717 12180372 and373 = F i g 3 5 f ~ k i d ~ 6 n g r p o h i 1 arid q respectively The fragmentary falence jar-lid i m ) from Tytns work is among the unaccessioried material in the Brooklyn IIuseum Cf 4marna PI SIII 13-21

4 3 5 Daressy Pouilles de la I-allbe drv Rois 9 0 s 24337-47 Carter and New-berry T h e Tonbh of Thotrt- mss i s I T Nos 46404-18 Daressy in Davis T h e T o m b o f Queen Ttyi pp 38-39 P1 V 2 3 4 Petrie Re-sparches i n S i n a i pp 144-45

436 No examples in falence seem to be recorded from the town sites at Gurob and Deir el Sfedineh and a fine specimen from Amarna (British SIlrsenm 34213 [Guide to the Fourth P i f t h and S i z t h E g y p t i a n Ilooms pp 144--451) may well be from a tomb or temple

R I NGS S C A R A B S E T C S C A L E II

R 3 R 5

R 6 R 6 R 7 R 9 R 10

mal t

FIG 35-Inscribed small objects from the Palace of Amenhotep I11

FIG 36-Statue and door-frame fragments from the Temple of Amtin in the Palace of Amen- hotep 111

I

FIG 37-Insrribed fragir~ents of plaster and sandstone from the Palace of ~menhott~) 111

FIG 38 -Offering tables

H A N D - C O P I E S A N D O S T R A K A

three n f r - ~ i g n s ~ ~ ~ in the other (b) fol- lowed by the epithet [beloved of] Amen- It Lord of Heaven

The prenomen of Amenhotep 111 (Kebmac[rEc]) appears in the openwork design of a handsome but unfortunately fragmentary bracelet of bright-blue fai- ence (r)

The lo]-er part of a kohl-tube of yellow faience with the inscriptions encrusted in deep-purplish-blue glaze (d) bears the cartouche of Queen Tiy and the wish -lay she live Fragments of t xo similar tubes in white faience (j)and pale-green faience ( k ) were inscribed also in dark blue n-ith the titles and name of the king The Good God Lord of the Two Lands NebmacrEc [given] life43a

-4 white faience lotus-petal pendant (f)439 is tipped with a blob of yellow glaze and adorned in dark-blue glaze with the prenomen-cartouche of Amenhotep I11 surmountetl by the solar disk (red) and double plume Part of the same cartouche without the plumes appears in dark blue on a fragment of a molded lotus-flower ornament of pale green and white fay- ence ( h ) 440

The most interesting of the vase frag- ments is a small piece from the side of a blue fafence goblet (g) engraved on the exterior with part of a Scd-festival scene441 At the right the king appears heated in a pavillion wearing the Crown of Lon-er Egypt and holding in his hands the crook and flail At the left above

4 1 r Cf Hall op c i t No 2880 Daressy Fouil lrs No 24298 4 Petrie S i x T p n ~ p l e s P1 V 11 The ud3t-eye alone appears on most of the examples cited above in n 435 The design shown in Fig 34 is repeated on the other side of the throw-stick in this case however w-ith the throne-name of the king (NebmacrGc) The fragment was found by Lansing during the season of 1917-18 in a house south of the Temple of Aman

4 3 8 A third example in green faience (MMA Acc No 11215493) preserves a minute portion of the same inscription

4 3 9 Cf A n ~ a r n a P1 XX Citw I I P1 XXSVI 1 2

4 4 0 Cf i n ~ a r n o P1 XIX C i t y 1 1 P1 XXXVI 1 2

an arm holding the symbol of (many years and having suspended from it one or more related symbols can be made out the lower part of the cnrtouche with the name ([Amen]hotep Ruler of Thebes

A fragmentary vase of white faience (e) and another of yellow faience (not

both decorated and inscribed in dark blue preserve on their sides parts of a rectangular panel with the names and titles of the king The Good God Neb- macrF the Son of RElt Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given [life] forever and por- tions of the kings cartouches appear on fragments of three blue faience dishes -(1 0 and p) and on a segment of a white faience jar-lid (m)Pieces of a jar of blue faience (y) and a saucer of gray fai-ence (r)444 carry the cartouche of Queen Tiy in the first instance accompanying that of the king A small globular vase of pale-green paste represented by the frag- ment (11)) had around its middle an in- cised band of hieroglyphs of which there remain only the words stability well-being and jo[y] -obviously from a long royal titulary In addition there are fragments of two little vases of purple and turquoise-blue n-ith engraved panels of inscription similar to that of the faience vase ( e )

The remaining item shown in Figure 35 (i) is a thin strip of ebony inlay prob- ably from a box or a piece of furniture I ts incised inscription once filled with yellow paint comprises the nbty-name of

4 4 1 I have found no exact parallel to the composi- tion seen here but the elements occur in numerorls representations of this stage of the Sed-festival eg Gayet Temple de Louror P1 LXXI Big 177 ( = L U 111 P1 74 d l Winlock J E B IV P1 IV Chevrier A n n Ser t XLVII 170 P1 XXVI Bisson do la Roque Fouil les I n s t f r Ca i re VIII P1 VII I See also Frankfort K i n g s h i p and the Gods chap vi

4 4 31x1-4 BCc NO11215494 d 4 3 Dark-blue faIence with light-blue lueroglyphs 4 4 4 The inscription of ( q ) is dark blue that of ( r ) is

white 4 d j AIJIA Acc Xos 11215505 and 507

Amenhotep I11 (the T~vo-Goddesses Establisher-of-Laws- (and-)Pacifier-of-the- T ~ v o - L a n d s ) ~ ~ ~followed by the title the Good God which normally precedes the throne-name of the king

VIII MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION8

Probably never very numerous the in- scriptions of this class which have been re- covered from the scanty and thoroughly plundered ruins of the palace buildings are few in number and for the most part ex- tremely fragmentary The majority of them come from the Temple of Amfin which though built of brick like the rest of the palace was provided with inscribed doorframes offering tables stelae and statues of stone and included several rooms the I-alls of which Tvere adorned with moldings ornamental patterns and inscriptions of gilded ~vood and plaster inlaid with blue faience tiles

Since all but one of the pieces of stone plaster and tilework bearing these in-scriptions were reburied at Thehes before the conclusion of the 31useum1s escava- tions in 1920 our knowledge of them is derived almost entirely from photographs sketches hand copies and notes made in the field by Winlock White and Lansing and it is these records now in New York which have provided the illustrations of Figures 36-39 and which form the basis of the discussion to follo~v Sever for ex- ample having seen the fragments of in- scribed offering tables from the palaces rlemple of Amiin I have in Figure 38 simply reprduced a photograph of Lan- sings original pencil sketches of these fragments rearranged and relabeled but otherwise untouched

In the Palace of the King the painted plaster ceiling of the pharaohs bedcham- her had heen decorated down its middle with a succession of great spread vul- t u r e ~ ~ ~ under the wings of each of which

4 4 6 Gauthier 1irre d e ro i i 11 306 ff

were painted in large detailed hieroglyphs the titles and names of Amenhotep 111 Enough fragments of fallen plaster were foundon the floor of the ruined chamber to restore one pair of the inscriptions and a hand copy of these (taken from Win- locks notes for February 1 1911) is given at the top of Figure 39 (1)On the right under the left wing of the vulture one read The Good God Lord of the TWO Lands Nebmacrec Chosen of Rec given life and on the left separated from the foregoing by the legs and tail of the bird The Son of Re Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given life The nomen-cartouche in the latter inscription had been painted over with ~vhitewash-evidently by fol-

lowers of the Aten desirous of obliterating the name of Amiin wherever it occurred448 These appear to have been the only monu- mental inscriptions found by the Muse- ums expedition anywhere in the palace area outside of the inclosure of the Temple of A m i ~ n ~ ~ ~

One of the most interesting pieces of stone discovered in the temple was part of the tip of the plumed headdress of a colossal statue of the god Amfin in dark- gray porphyritic d i ~ r i t e ~ ~ (Fig 36 top) The width of the remaining plume (23 cm) compared with the correspond- ing measurement on the well-known group of- Amiin and Tutcankhamiin in the Louvre451 indicates that the Xllalkata

44 Winlock Bull MMA 1912 p 186 See also Tytus P r e l i m i n a r R e p o r t pp 18 20 and cf Capart L S r t amp g y p t i e n I PI 147 Prisse dnvennes IIilttuirc iie l ar t i g y p t i e n ttins I trchitecture PI [I

4 s Cf Tytus o p r i t p 10

4 9 See however i b id pp 10 25

450 A stone often and (I am told) incorrectly tle- scribed as black granite The fragment which is 46 cm in height and 30 cm in width was found by Lansing during the season of 1916-17 near the cen- tral portion of the temple proper Pieces of probably the same statue (described as unimportant frag-ments of a black granite statue) were found by White during the preceding season in the same general locality

4 5 1 Benedite M o n u m e n t s P io t S S I V 47-68 See also E n c y r l o p P d i e p h o t o g r a p h i y u r d e l a r t 1 L e ~ l l u s i e d u L o u v r e pp 78-79

statue when complete n-as 440 meters or ahout fourteen ant1 a half feet in height A s in the Louvre group the got1 as pro)- ably represented seated on a throne Ivith perhaps a smaller figure of the king stand- ing or kneeling before him452 Admirably carved and beautifully finished the statue may have been the temples principal cult image though its huge size tends to mili- tate against this-53 I ts back pilaster car- ried three vertical coliimns of incised hieroglyphic inscriptions of which are pre-

served the groups [Q] 1

r r-hat the tops of the sec-

ond and third columns respectively (Fig 36 upper right)

A fragment of sandstone door-lintel (Fig 36 lower left) found lying on the sur- face of the ground inside the temple in- losu sure^^^ was photographed by Evelyn FThite during the season of 1914-15 The piece measures 70 cm in length and 83 cm in height the lintel having been originally about 107 cm high-a sizable block of stone Its decoration lightly incised anti somewhat carelessly executed was whol- ly conventional a winged suns disk and helon- it two horizontal lines of inscrip tion with the titles and names of Amen- hotep III05 The kings prenomen [Neb]- ma [re ] with the epithet Heir of Re ( i l l s - f R-) included in the cartouche is fairly c ~ m m o n ~ occurring for example on a piece of re-used() sandstone relief found in the temple of Eye and IIorem- heb14j7which lies about a kilometer to the north of the palace area The tops of the

signs 18 a t its extreme left end are all

3 See Varille K a r n a k I 8-9 PI X V 4 5 3 See Holscher hxcavatzon o l f e d z n ~ f Hahu

IIT 26 154 White Bul l f~f-l1915 p 256 Lansing Bull

1fMd Alarch 1918 Supp lement p 8 4 2 5 Cf Varille K a r n a k I PI XII 17 456 Gauthier Lzvre des roiu 11 316 X X I X 317

SSS318 X S X I V 4 5 7 Hiilscher Excanalion o Medinet Habu 11 101

PI 43 n

that remain of the second line of inscrip- tion

A pair of fragmentary sandst onc tloor- jaml)s (Fig 36 lower right) though similar in style are smaller in scale than the lintel measuring only 20 cm in width the right jamb being preserved to a height of 70 cm They are from Lansings excavations of 1916-17 in the templearea Each evidently bore one of the names of Amenhotep 111 f ollo~r-ed by the expressions beloved of such-and-such a divinity and given life like RP forever Flre may guess that on the left jamb the deity referred to was Amen-Re [Lord of] Heaven and what remains of the signs a t the top of the frag- ment of the right jamb suggests the name of the goddess Shesmet (Ssmtt)45~luch more interesting than the principal in-scriptions are the tu-o small lines of text written near the bottom of the right jamb and given in hand copy in Figure 39 2 These inform us that the doorway or the structure to which it belonged was made under the direction of the Treasurer of the King of Lower Egypt the StolistGq of 3Iin-Amfin the Fourth Prophet of Amiin Simtit the justified

A prominent member of the hierarchy of hmiin Simiit is named as Fourth Prophet of the god in a statue inscription in Brussels together n-ith his three superi- ors the First Prophet Bleryptah the Second Prophet (and brother-in-law of the king) ltAnen and the Third Prophet Amenemhet460 Since the inscription re-ferred to is dated to Year 20 of Amenho- tep I11 and the chapel of Amiin in the Jfalkata palace was probably built for the celebration of the kings second Sed-

0 W b IT538 Budge Dic t ionary p 753 Gard O n 11 125

4 5 9 S m See Grdseloff A n n Serl XLITI 357 f f The title Stolist of AIin-ArnGn was borne in the Nineteenth Dynasty by IEhaCeniwast a so11 of the High Priest of B m h Wepwawetnlose (Lefebvre Histoire des yrands pramptres c l i ln~o7t p 240)

460 Capart and Spiegelberg -4 n 71 Sac A r eh d e Brurel les XVI 167 Fig 2

festival in Year 34461 it mould appear that Simtit held the rank of Fourth Prophet for about fourteen years462 Before the end of his career he was elevated to the grade of Second Prophet of Amiin and is so re- ferred to on toTo statues3 and two shawnbty-figure~~~4in the Cairo Museum He appears in the reliefs of the temple at Soleb participating in the celebration of Amenhotep 111s first Heb-~ed~ and lvas the owner of a decorated tomb on the Dira abul Naga at ThebesG6 On one of his statues in Cairo467 he bears the title First Kings Son of Amiin and the presence of his name on a doorway of one of the kings temples suggests that like ane en he -as related to Amenh~t~ep I11 either by blood or by marriage The fact that he was evi- dently in charge of what during the reign of Amenhotep I11 must have been the fourth most important of tmhe Theban temples of Amtin further suggests that there oras some sort of nominal division of responsibility between the four prophets of the god-the High Priest presiding at Karnak and delegating the immediate supervision of the Luxor temple the kings mortuary temple and the Malkata

401 See above p 85

402 Possibly less Sirniit may have received his ap- pointment as Fourth Prophet in Year 20 itself and the Malkata temple may have been built and inscribed a year or two before the celebration of the second Heb-sed During the reigns of Sethy I and Ramesses 11 Bakenkhonsu who eventually became High Priest of Amfin served twelve years as a Father of the God flf- teen years as Third Prophet and twelve years as Sec- ond Prophet (Lefebvre Hzstozre des g r a n d s p r l t r r s p 128)

463 Borchardt S t a t u e n t l nd S ta tue t t en 111161 Ko 932 IV 60 IGo 1107

4 6 4 Mariette Cat yl n des m o n u m e n t s d d b y d o s Nos 389 and 3 9 0 incorrectly dated by SIariette (and Lefebvre o p czt p 24 K O 1) to the late Middle K~ngdom The two Simiits listed by Lefebvre ( l ac czt IGos 1 and 9) are clearly one and the same man

465 Lepsius D e n k m u l e r 111PI 84 b

468 Porter-Sfoss T o p B i b l I 187 1 Varille A n n Seru S L 642 n 3

4 6 7 No 1107 See above n 483

temple to the Second Third and Fourth Prophets respectively

Similt may also have been the o-ner of a rough little sandstone stela a few bat- tered fragments of 11-hich mere recovered by Lansing from the ruins of the temple proper and are shown in the photograph at the bottom of Figure 37 A rectangular slab something over 45 cm in thickness the stela Ivas once painted white with blue hieroglyphs and red dividing lines the latter spaced on the average 3 em apart Preserved are parts of a seven-line inscription surmounting an incised design of indeterminate nature and comprising portions of the autobiography of a priest or temple official of Amtin With the aid of Lansings hand copy a revised version of which is given in Figure 39 (3) we can make out the following phrases

(1) the Prince of Princes468 [intro]ducetl me into the House of Amfin

(2) for his469 son Nehmacrei who be- longs to

(3) - V amp [ ~ ] W ( )a long lifetime as king living

(4) life() great of victories ( 5 ) Went [dou~n] the Kings [Daughter]

HenettonehQ in front of (6) great of hirn who causes rnonu-

ment which is (7) in the place the gods words which

he recited Mention has already been made of the

tile and gilded plaster decoration of a row

6 Probably Amenhotep 111 (see Varille A n n Sera XXXIII 93-94 XXXIV 13-16 Capart C h r o n d Eq X 322-24 Gauthier Liare des ro i s 11 315 XXV 316 XXVIII) though the epithet F k l h g i w was current before his time being borne for example by Amenhotep I1on his great quartzite stela from Sakkiireh (1 34 Badaw-i A n n S e r e XLII 23 P1 I)

468 ilmiins There is however a bare possibility that the pronoun and the epithet Prince of Princes in the preceding line refer to Thutmose IV

4 7 0 Amenhotep 111ssecond eldest daughter and the senior princess following Sitamiins elevation to the status of queen See Gauthier o p ci t 11 341-42 Hayes Bull M M d 1948 pp 272 276-78

horizon4 M a y he he given4 life stability md well-being [forever]

Thc expression Offering-of-the-1lt001 (wdn 11 tp-ht) leaves little room for doubt that these small stone basins formed part of the furnishings of an elevated open-air sanctuary of the type dedicated to the worship of the sun-god (Rec of the Roof479 and known from texts of the Twentieth Dynasty and later times to have been called the House of RP of the Roof of the House of Amtin4xo Such a sanctuary existed in the great temple a t Karnak as early as the reign of Thut-mose III481and the presence of one in so small and unimportant a temple as that of the Llalkata palace indicates how prevalent shrines of this type must have been in the Amtin temples of the period

Since the function of our offering tables was presumably to receive libations and gifts of food presented to the sun-god it seems frivolous to suggest that they I-ould also have been useful for catching the fresh myrrh and fresh incense which Heaven in tn70 Eighteenth Dynasty in- scriptions is said to rain down upon the roofs of royal temples482

A glance a t the plan of the northern- most quarter of the palace published by

in 1918shows that the Temple

4 7 7 R-m](~c)[(n)RCwbnm iht ] Cf Aeg Inschr Brr- lin 11182No 7290 For Rec wenlightperhaps sub- stitute Aten (the disk of the sun not the god of Amarna) as in Berlin 7274 and 7271 (deg Inschr 11 154 and 105)

[I di] nb etc Cf Cairo 23040 23073 (Ka-mal op cit)

4 7 9 R tp-hl or R m tp-ht (Re in the Roof) a form of the god worshiped as early as the reigu of Kir~g Sahurec of the Fifth Dynasty and referred to in two places on the Palermo Stoue (verso 3 1 and 4 3 Schafer Ein Bruchstuck altagyptischer Annalen pp 36 and 39)

4 8 Pr-RC tp-ht Pr-Imn See the references giveu in (iard On 11 216 under -4 462 and in Kees Orirntalia XVIII 436-30

Icees op cit pp 427-42

48 Spiegelberg 24~LIII 99

fl Op cil p 9

of Amtin properly speaking occupied only the c+entral section of a long ljuiltiing cstcntling across the tcrracactl 11cst eritl of a vast ~valletl inclosure (see nlho Pig 1 above) The northern lying of this build- ing appears to have been given over to offices and magazines-probably for the contributions to the kings second Neb-scd -but the richly decorated rooms at its southern end were certainly intended for some less utilitarian purpose and its southeast corner was taken up by a luxuri- ously appointed dwelling house or small palace On the north sitie of the main in- closure are the remains of a large multi- piered huilding nhich is believed to have been the kings Srd-festival anti adjoining this on the west a succession of courts and smaller buildings To the south and east of the inclosure are the ruins of other structures including several large and handsome villas There is every probability that the inclosure once con-tained a big rectangular pool of r ~ - a t e r ~ ~ ~ fed perhaps from the principal palace lake the present-day Birket IIabu

Some distance south of the main city at Tell el hmarna there is a generally similar architectural layout consisting of two big rectangular inclosures lying side by side and containing in addition to pools villas magazines and other build- ings a small temple This temple was presumably dedicated to the Aten and the whole complex was called the m3rur or pleasure-precinct() of the Aten- usually referred to by modern ~vriters simply as ilIaru-hten486

Like Pr-hcy the name nhich he used

4 See above p 85

A usual feature of the larger ancient Egyptian courtyards and one which would explain the complete absence of building remains in the central portion of this inclosure

8 8 City I chap v Pls S X I X fl The riame XIarll- 4teuW and the word m3ria are discussed by Ciu11n 011 pp 133-58

the and its wine is (even) more plentifulm3 than for his principal palace a t A m a r ~ ~ a ~ ~ ~ term m3rw was probably derived by Akhenaten from some portion of his fathers palace at Thebes where how- ever the full name ~vould in all likelihood have been the m3rw of Amiin Granted that a part of the Theban palace was so named n-e can hardly doubt that the part in question was the isolated northern quarter with the temple and inclosure of Amiin

Fortunately there is inscriptional evi- dence to show that hmenhotep I11actual-ly did build a Maru-Amtin across the river from Luxor in the general locality -

occupied by the illalkata temple inclo- sure This evidence is found in lines 12-14 of the kings well-known granite stela in C a i r~ ~here following descriptions of the mortuary temple in western Thebes and the temple a t Luxor there appears the follo~i-ing account of a hitherto un-identified structure

Ariotller nlonulrie~it which His Majesty 111tde for his father Amfin making for him a

r r i l n i (gt-) as an offering to the god -I n

oppositeg Soutllern a place ofO ~ e t ~ ~ ~ arnusernent for my Father in his goodly festi- va l (~ ) In it I erected a great templeM1 (which is) like the Sun (Rc)when it appears in glory on the horizon and ~vhich is planted with all (kinds of) flowers Fair is the Primaeval Water (inla) which ii in its lake at every season4g2

8 See above pp 178 and 182

1x5 Ko 34025 See Lacau Stkles ilu Touuel E m p i r e 11 S V I The text as restored by Sethy I contains a t~rirnber of iniswritings which are emended by Spiegel- berg in R e c l r a a S X 4CL43 (see esp p 41 UII 5-9)

l a gHl-I lr -n before the face of facing-here I believe in the sense of directly across (the iVile) from Compare the common expression for west- err1 Thebes Bft-l~in b s Opposite-her-Lord ( I i7b 111 276 b)

The temple of Luxor On a map of Thebes a line drau-n from the sanctuary of the Lrixor temple a r ~ d projected westward a t right angles to the corirse of the river passes just to the north of the palace area

(I t -nr r t a stock expression uot really in- dicative of the actual size of the temple which irl this case happeus to have bee11 relatively small

(its) water-like the pouring forth of the Inun- dation (Hpy)a4 created by the Lord of Eter- nity Numerous are the possessions of the place The taxes of every country are received and plentiful tribute is brought before my Father being the presentations of all lands

Aside from the comments made in the footnotes there seems to be nothing which needs to be added to this description of what would appear to have been the northern quarter of the Malkata palace except to note that for an inscription of its type and period it is unusually accurate and complete

IX MISCELLANEOUS INSCRIPTIONS

Among the few inscribed objects found in the ruins of the palace which do not belong to one of the eight categories al- ready discussed were two fragments of a name-stone of H a t ~ h e p s u t ~ ~ j picked up by Lansing in November 1917 in the vil- lage area to the n-est of the North Pa1ace here can be little doubt that the stone

came originally from the temple of Hat- shepsut and Thutmose I11 at Medinet Habu where numerous examples of the same type have been found4 and that it had wandered thence into the palace area at a relatively recent date

Mixed in with the fragments of in-scribed jars from the Palace of the King were two potsherds with portions of Eighteenth Dynasty hieratic copies of two famous literary texts the Instruction of hmenemhet I (Fig 39 4)495 and a n-ell-

4 0 2 Thanks u e may suppose to the channel con- necting the Uirket Habri with the Nile (see Engelbach and 12facaldin B u l l rle I I n s t rlampgple XS52)

4 9 3 See the second column of the table of Fig 16 above

4 0 1 See De Brick On the 3Ieaning of the Name fPpj Orzentalza S e e r l a n d z c a 1049 pp 1-22

6 Ou stones of this type see my O s t r a k a a n d Tame- S t o n r s pp 45-46

4 9 6 See eg Holscher E r c a c a t i o n o M e d i n e t I I a b u 1132 Figs 27 28

0 Small portions of the begitlr~irlg of the text (Pap Sallier 11 1-2) are preserved

242 JOURNAL S~UDIESOF NEAREASTERK

known model letter of the earlier Middle Iiingdom (Fig 39 5)498

MTith the exception of some pieces of in- scribed alabaster vases from the store- rooms of the Temple of Amdn499 of xvhich unhappily I can find no copies or photo- graphs this completes the corpus of Eighteenth Dynasty inscriptions recov-erecl from the palace by the Metropolitan 3luseums espedibion A few Late Dynas- tic burials with inscribed coffins some Demotic ostraka and half a dozen in- scribed amphorae of the Greco-Roman Period were also found but these have no bearing on the history of the Malkata as

a royal residence-a history which seems to have ended abruptly vith the rise of the Nineteenth Dynasty

Exclusive of Amenhotep I11 himself thirteen royal persons are mentioned on inscribed objects found within the con- fines of the Malkata palace Though the names of some of these persons appear on objects or in contests of no particular his- torical significance it seems desirable nevertheless to list them all in chronologi- cal order accompanied by indications of the types and quantities of the inscrip- tions in which they occur

Hatshepsut I name-stone probably from rtledinet Habu Thutmose 111 4 document-sealings (Types S 1 2 Fig 31) 4

scarabs (Types R 24-27 Fig 34) Amenliotep 11 2 document-sealings (Type S 3 Fig 31) Tllutnlose I V 9 jar-labels (Types 31 32 45 Figs 5 t i ) 2 docu-

ment-sealings (Types S 4 5 Fig 31) Queen JIute~nuya I jar-label (Type 64 Fig 7) Queer1 Tiy I jar-label (Type 98 Fig 8) numerous brick

stimys (Types 111 IT Fig 30) 32 ring bezels (Types R 12-16 Fig 34) 2 scarabs (p 233 and n 419) 1 kohl-tube and 2 rase fragment^ (Fig 35 d q r)

Tlic Kings (Great) Wife (=T iy ) 26 jar-labels (Types 7 18 94 129 147 172 207 Figs 4 8 10 11 1314) 1jar-sealing (Tgt-pe 0 Fig 26)

Queen Sitarniln 51 jar-labels (Types 94-97 112 113 137 139 Figs8911) 2 ring bezels (Type R 17 Fig 34)

Princess Henettoneb Rlentioned on a sandstone stela (Figs 37 bot-tom 39 3)

Irince Arnenhotep (=Amenliotep IV ) 1 jar-sealing (Type KK Fig 27) ilmenhotep IV (ilkhenaten) 3 document-sealings (Types S 97 120 124 Fig

33) 1 ring bezel (Type H 18 Fig 34) Smenklikar 2 ring bezels (Types R 19 20 Fig 34) Tutcankhnmtin I ring bezel (Type R 21 Fig 34) (JueenAnkhesenamOn (CZrlkhesenpatten) 1 document-sealing (Type P 125 Fig 33) 1 ring

bezel (Type R 22 Fig 34) Horelnlieb 1 fragment of sandstone doorjamb (Fig 37 1q1-

per right)

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INSCRIPTIONS FROX THE PALACE O F AMENHOTEP 111

WILLIAM C HAYES

WE COME now to groups of objects ~vhich unlike the jar-labels and the jar- and document-sealings

dealt ~vith in the earlier articles of this series393 Ivere made and inscribed in the vorkshops of the palace itself either for the use of its inmates or for the adornment of its buildings In each category of ob- jects Jve shall consider only those ex-amples which bear inscriptions in the generally accepted sense of the word- texts formulas names titles epithets- leaving the numerous motto designs and decorative motifs to a future publication

V F A Y C N C E FINGER RINGS

Among the more popular items of

easily broken it is unlikely that they were intended as seals or even as real pieces of jewelry hut rather that they were dis- tributed as favors on the occasions of festivals banquets and the like and in- cluded among the funerary equipment buried in the tombs of the dead397 Though almost always fragmentary such rings have survived in enormous quantities and since they frequently bear royal names and titles often throw considerable light on the histories of the sites in which they occur398 This is particularly true of the numerous rings found at Tell el Amarna3qg and of the 490 inscribed examples recov- ered from the palace of Amenhotep 111at ~ h ~ b ~ ~

costume je~velry affected by the E g ~ ~ - The latter of blue green purple or tians of the late Eighteenth Dynasty violet faience exhibit a fairly limited were reproductions in glazed frit of the number of types p i g 34 R 1-22] ~h~~~ metal signet rings current at this p e r i ~ d ~ ~ ~ ~ hovever numerous minor variations Like their models the faience rings are provided vith oval lozenge-shaped or rectangular bezels fused to or molded in one piece ~ i t h the rings In many cases the molds used for the faience ring-bezels appear to have been taken di- rectly from actual signet fact which adds immeasurably to their inter- est and and manu-factured the fayence rings yere equally

393 J S E S X 35-56 82-111 156-83

3 9 4 See above p 166 and n 332 Faence rings with relief and openwork designs comprising all manner of amuletic and decorative devices were also common but these do not concern the present discussion

39 see ~ z t yI ~ 1 sx 3 XI 3 XIII 1 6 c z t y I I Pls XXIX 5 XLVI 3 Hall Catalogue of Egyp t zan Scarabs I 273-81 passzm Petrie Scarabs and Cylzn- derh PIS XXXIV-XXXVII passzm Objecls of Dazly Use P1 XII 56-64

3 9 6 see Czty 11p 114 and on ring molds in general 4 marna P 28

in size and style Tithin the individual types and it is clear that many different molds Ivere used in producing each of the

varieties of bezels illus- trated

R 1 comprising 396 is by far the most common type is folloIved in

order of frequency by Ivith 34 ex-amples R 2 Tvith 20 examples R 13 (19 examples) R 10 (16 examples) R 3 (12 examples) R 14 is represented by 5 ex-

3 9 7 One hundred and forty-three faience flnger rings were found in the tomb of Tutcankhamfin (Engelbach A n n Serv XL 161 n 1 ) See also BruyBre Fouzlles XV 68-69

3 9 8 Their value as indexes of date is enhanced by the fact that they were usually broken and discarded a few months after their manufacture and did not like scarabs and other more durable objects survive from one reign to another

J y See lrnarna p 43 ( it^ I pp 2 114

231

amples R 6 and 12400 by 4 examples each R 8 by 3 examples 114N159 15 and 16 1)y 2 examples each and R 7 and 17-22 1)y the single specimens shown in the draw- ings

All told there are 451 bezels bear- ing the names of Amenhotep 111 (Nebma~rE~)[396] Nebmacrampc Image of Rampc [j]or Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes [50]) 32 bearing the name of Queen Tiy 2 with the name of Queen Sitamfin2 1 with the name of Amen- hotep IV ((Neferkheprurec Wacenre) 2 with the names of SmenkhkarF (cAnkhkheprurampcH and cAnkhkhepruramp Beloved of WacenrF) and 1 each with the names of Tutcankhamfin (Nebkhep- rurampc) and Queen ~Ankhesenpaaten

Types R 18-22 and 2 examples each of Types R 1 3 12 and 13 are from Tytus work in the Palace of the King (see Fig lj4Ohnd are noy in the Brooklyn r I u ~ e u m ~ ~ ~The others are in the Metro- politan SIuseum of Art4u5 having come from the Museums excavations of 1910- 204j The bulk of these are from the Palace of the King and its subsidiary buildings The ruins of the South Palace produced 125 rings including 6 of the 32 examples with the name of Queen Tiy

400 The two examples of R 12 represented by the drawing of Fig 34 are of purple fdence with the in- scription incrusted in pale-green glaze

401 In both examples of R 4 the bezel is a n open- work design molded in apple-green faIence Here the prenomen of Amenhotep I11 is written with the nb-sign surmounted by a seated Agure of the falcon- headed sun-god RCholding the feather mt (Petrie Scarabs and Cvlinders PI YXXIV 118 Historical Scarabs No 1178 Cf above p 158 and 11 280)

402 R 17 and a n example published by Xewberry in P S B A XXIV 247

103 See above n 3

404 kccession Nos 486620 21 47 48 and unacces- sioned M y thanks are again extended to Mr Cooney for drawing my attention to this material and permit- ting me to publish i t

405 Accession hos 1121569-76 78-89 124 and unaccessioned

40 Bee above n 1 The rings and other small ob- jects found by Daressy in the palace ( A n n Seru I V 16s) appear not to have been published

The faience and glass factories40i of the South Tillage yielded 99 examples and those of the Tillage Area west of the Xortll Palace 14 more Thirty fragmentary rings were found in the southern rubbish mounds and one example (of Type R 6) in the Temple of Amfin

The finding of sixteen rings with the name of Tiy as against every one with the name of Sitamfin is in direct contrast to the evidence of the jar-labels where the ratio is at least two to one in favor of the younger queen408 This is perhaps at-tributable to the fact that the jar-labels in question all date from the last ten years of the reign while the rings come without exception from the older buildings of the palace group and may therefore be sup- posed to reflect an earlier period in the history of the palace-a period when Tiy alone was the Kings Great TTTife and Sitamfin was only a senior princess

Taken in conjunction with the evidence of the jar-labels of Type 6409 the docu- ment sealings of Types S 124 and 125O and the Atenist erasures in the palace in- s c r i p t i o n ~ ~ ~ ~ cer-the ring-bezels R 18-22 tainly indicate that the palace of Amen- hotep I11 was occupied during the reigns of Akhenaten Smenkhkarec and Tut-ankha am fin To what extent it was occu- pied by these kings themselves is less cer- tain Akhenaten appears to hare resided in it during the first five years of his core- gency with his father4I2 and again-prob- ably briefly-in the twelfth year of his reign413 Smenkhkarec was apparently

40 Tytus Preliminarv Report p 25 iYew- berry J E 4 TI 156 Winlock Bull M M A 1912 PP 185 187 White Bz~l i l f l f J 1915 p 254

40 See above p 98

409 See above Fig 4 and pp 35 88 41deg See above Fig 33 and p 177

See above p 37 and below pp 236 238 See also Tytus o p c i t p 10 and L a n s i n ~ Bull l f J I 4 March 1918 Supplement p 12

See above pp 35 37 88 3 See above p 180

INSCI~IPTI(IXSFROM THE P

Iluriecl a t Thehes and may have lived there for a few months preceding his death414 I t is not unlikely that Tut-cankhamfin occupied the Malkata palace upon his return to Thebes though the evidence for this is admittedly slight The name of his wife appears zs we have seen on two small monuments from the palace on a ring-bezel (R 22) in its earlier form ~Ankhesenpaaten and on a document sealing (S 125) as cAnkhesenamfin The latter name -as adopted by the young queen follo~ving her husbands reversion to the worship of Bmnn an event which apparently took place sometime after the return of the royal couple to Thebesj

With the exceptions of R 4 and R 7 all the ring-bezels from the palace of Amen- hotep I11 are duplicated or closely paral- leled hy example found at Tell el Amarna 41G

V1 SCARABS COTILOIDS PLAQUES

AM17LETSA S D MOLDS

The lower half of Figure 34 (R 23-44) reproduces the inscriptions on forty-one assorted seals amulets and molds found for the most part in or near the Palace of the King either by Tytus in 1902i or by mTinlock in 1910-11~5It 37 and 38 are from the southern rubbish mounds anti R 25 42 and 43 form part of a string of amulets discovered in the complex of 1)uiltiings east of the Palace of the King Lansings field notes for the season of 1917--18 record the finding of two ex-amples of R 31 and a steatite scarah of Queen Tiy419 in the Village Area n-est of the Sor th Palace

The scarabs (R 24-28 31 32 35-39) are of blue or green glazed steatite or

6 Engelbach -4 n n Serc S L 135 137-39 148 f f Pendlebury Te l l el-4 m a r n a pp 9 28

Engelbach op c i t pp 160 f f

ltImarna PI S I T - 10-19 21 22 24 50-55 PlX90)1 91-101 103 110

$ 5 See above n 3 IhSee above 11 1

more rarely of blue faience (R 24 and 3 ex- amples of R 28) the cowroids (R 29) of blue faience the plaques of blue faience (R 33 [l example] 41) yellow faience (R 23) green glazed steatite (R 33 14 ex- amples]) or green paste (R 40) the frog- amulets (I330 34) of blue faience the fish-amulets (R 42 43)4n of blue or green glazed steatite and the molds (R 44) of hard fine-grained reddish-brorr-n pot-tery 42

There are six examples of R 28 five ex- amples of R 33 four examples each of R 31 and R 44 three examples of R 29 two examples each of R 30 34 and 36 and one example of each of the other types The pieces from Tytus n-ork (R 23 26 27 39 40 one example of R 28 and three examples of R 44) are now in the Brooklyn 1 Iu~eum~~ The rest are in the iLletropolitan rIuseum of Art424

Duplicates or close parallels to R 24-42 I ill he found in I-Ialls Catalogue o j hgyp-tian Y r a r ~ b s ~ ~ ~ in S e n berrys Scarabs4

fl 18X 13x 09 cm Similar to Kewberry Scarab-shaped S e a l s S o 36234 and Hall o p c i t Kos 1929-30 According to Chron d 2 E g VII 123 there is in the Kcstner JIuseum in Hanover UII petit scarabolde de Taya provenant du palais dAlnAno- phis 111

See Reisner i lmu l t t s Nos 12451-86 Pis XSIII-AKXIV Petrie A m u l c t s No 18 PI 11

47 See Reisner o p cit Sos 12488-90 PI S A Y I T Lanzone Diz ionar io p 50 No 12

2 See d m a r n o p 28 The molds with the impres- sion of Type R 44 are roughly rectangular lumps of pottery averaging 34 cm in length 25 cm in u-idth and 12 cm in tllickness I n addition to these there are two molds (XIJIA Acc 11215699 700) for producing falence ornaments in the form of a hunch of grapes ( i l m a r n a PI XI-Y) with the prerlolnerl- cartouche of Ameuhotep I11 (SebmaCr6) vertical in the center of the drsign ( ley I n s c h r B e r l i n 11 261 No 9473) Thegt- were found in 1911 near the Palace of the King

a 3 Accession iYos 486622 23 and unaccessioned

4 4 Accession Nos 112152-9 18-22 29 37 38 52 54 55 207 216 12180384 and unaccessioned

2 i Y ~ ~ 611-29 (R 24) 851-53 (R 25) 1003 (R 26) 1754-59 (R 29) 1760 (R 30) 1753 2852 (R 31 32) 1761 (R34) 1796 1797 (R351 1787-90 (R 361 1814 (R 371 1149 iR 38) 1623 (R 39) 637 638 (R 42)

2 Pls X X l S 41 iR 24) S X S 2 (R 38) 26 iR 291 27 (R 28) 39 (R 36) 30 ( H 37)

a Scnmb-shaped Seals4 and in Petries Flistorical qcarab~~~ and Scarabs and Cyl-i n d e r ~ ~ ~From the parallels occurring in these publications it would appear that R 39 is to be read Sebma~rEc Idion of Rulers (nz3i hamp[w]) 430 The roughly cut legend of the fish-amulet R 43 is pre- sumably the name of a divinity-possibly that of the Syrian god Resheph (Rsptn) The inscription of the molds R 44 ((Neb- maCrFl Lord of Secl-festivaljs] may be compared with those of the document- sealingsof Figures 31 and 32 (S 24-2759) The little cartouche-shaped plaque-pen- dant R 23 contains the first part of the (didactic name of the god Aten in its earlier form (RP lives Harakhte who rejoices [on the Horizon])432 and is paral- leled I)y numerolls examples found at Tell el 14marna433

Little of historical value is to be de- rived from these small monuments The hcaarahs of Thutmose I11 may have been niade in the reign of Amenhotep I11 (see ZAS S L I 70) or may have been heir- looms inherited by inmates of the palace from their grandparents or great-grand- parents B y themselves they are certainly not evidence that the palace area was ever occupied bp Thutmose I11 or his contemporaries The molds of Type I1 44

lsquobias 36106 (R 24) 36209 36220 36222 iR 31 32 36211 36224 36225 (R 28) 36685 ff (R 42)

4laN0S 1171 (R 29) 1179 (R 301 1183 (R 31-33) 11x5 (R 28) 1239 (R 37) 1241 (R 38) 1245-47 (R 36) 1255 (R 39) 1275 (R 42) 1283-84 (R 33)

4 2 9 PIS XXVI 8 9 R 24) XXVII 49 (R 26) SXVIII 7 6 8 0 (R 24) XSXIII 48-51 (R 28) 58 (R 39) 60 (R 36) X S X I V 75-82 (R 30) 88 89 91 (R 29) SXXV 126 (R 33) 139 (R 41) See also h a h u n Gurob and FIavara PI 99111 1 10 11 12 I111 I l i a h u n R a h u n an11 Guroh Pl XXIII 9 15 17 19

f loSee Varllle Bull I n s t fr Cazre XXSV 167 n 3 IIzcronl Text Brzt Afur -I11 (rd Edwards) 14 PI 91 Ff the pt xonal name mi-n-hamp3io (Ranhe P r r s o n ~ n n a m r n I 144 7)

rsi For the wr~ting of the name see a b o ~ e p 158 arid n 280

Srthe Yachr Goitznurn 1921 p 113 Gunn J E I I S 168-76 esp p 173

3 3 3 l m a l n a PI X l V 65 ff

were probably used on the occasion of one of Amenhotep 111s Sed-festivals to pro- duce small faience plaques commemorat- ing the event The plaque with the name of the god Aten (R 23) tends to support the evidence already adduced that the palace was a t one time occupied by an Atenist pharaoh or his follo~vers

VII INSCRIBED FA~ENCEVASES KOIIL-

TUBES AND OIHEH SMALL OBJECTS

Winlocks excavations of 1910-12 in the Palace of the King and the buildings to the east ancl west of it yielded the frag- ments of a quantity of small objects chiefly of faience which are perhaps more interesting for their variety than for the inscriptions which they bear Most of these are in the Metropolitan AIuseum and are illustrated in Figure 35434 Their dimensions may be determined from the centimeter scale a t the bottom of the il- lustration

Fragments (a) (Fig 34 scale 12) arid (b) are sections of model throw-sticks of blue faience a type of amulet well known from tombs and temples of the Eighteenth Dynasty433 but rarely found in the drvell- ings of the living436 Both pieces are in- scribed in black with portions of the nomen-cartouche of Amenhotep I11 (Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes) in one case (a) surmounting a m - s y m b o l and accompanied by the wampf-eye above

4 3 4 LIMA Acc Nos 11215371 495 503 504 508 509 510 511 512 518 519 520 530 717 12180372 and373 = F i g 3 5 f ~ k i d ~ 6 n g r p o h i 1 arid q respectively The fragmentary falence jar-lid i m ) from Tytns work is among the unaccessioried material in the Brooklyn IIuseum Cf 4marna PI SIII 13-21

4 3 5 Daressy Pouilles de la I-allbe drv Rois 9 0 s 24337-47 Carter and New-berry T h e Tonbh of Thotrt- mss i s I T Nos 46404-18 Daressy in Davis T h e T o m b o f Queen Ttyi pp 38-39 P1 V 2 3 4 Petrie Re-sparches i n S i n a i pp 144-45

436 No examples in falence seem to be recorded from the town sites at Gurob and Deir el Sfedineh and a fine specimen from Amarna (British SIlrsenm 34213 [Guide to the Fourth P i f t h and S i z t h E g y p t i a n Ilooms pp 144--451) may well be from a tomb or temple

R I NGS S C A R A B S E T C S C A L E II

R 3 R 5

R 6 R 6 R 7 R 9 R 10

mal t

FIG 35-Inscribed small objects from the Palace of Amenhotep I11

FIG 36-Statue and door-frame fragments from the Temple of Amtin in the Palace of Amen- hotep 111

I

FIG 37-Insrribed fragir~ents of plaster and sandstone from the Palace of ~menhott~) 111

FIG 38 -Offering tables

H A N D - C O P I E S A N D O S T R A K A

three n f r - ~ i g n s ~ ~ ~ in the other (b) fol- lowed by the epithet [beloved of] Amen- It Lord of Heaven

The prenomen of Amenhotep 111 (Kebmac[rEc]) appears in the openwork design of a handsome but unfortunately fragmentary bracelet of bright-blue fai- ence (r)

The lo]-er part of a kohl-tube of yellow faience with the inscriptions encrusted in deep-purplish-blue glaze (d) bears the cartouche of Queen Tiy and the wish -lay she live Fragments of t xo similar tubes in white faience (j)and pale-green faience ( k ) were inscribed also in dark blue n-ith the titles and name of the king The Good God Lord of the Two Lands NebmacrEc [given] life43a

-4 white faience lotus-petal pendant (f)439 is tipped with a blob of yellow glaze and adorned in dark-blue glaze with the prenomen-cartouche of Amenhotep I11 surmountetl by the solar disk (red) and double plume Part of the same cartouche without the plumes appears in dark blue on a fragment of a molded lotus-flower ornament of pale green and white fay- ence ( h ) 440

The most interesting of the vase frag- ments is a small piece from the side of a blue fafence goblet (g) engraved on the exterior with part of a Scd-festival scene441 At the right the king appears heated in a pavillion wearing the Crown of Lon-er Egypt and holding in his hands the crook and flail At the left above

4 1 r Cf Hall op c i t No 2880 Daressy Fouil lrs No 24298 4 Petrie S i x T p n ~ p l e s P1 V 11 The ud3t-eye alone appears on most of the examples cited above in n 435 The design shown in Fig 34 is repeated on the other side of the throw-stick in this case however w-ith the throne-name of the king (NebmacrGc) The fragment was found by Lansing during the season of 1917-18 in a house south of the Temple of Aman

4 3 8 A third example in green faience (MMA Acc No 11215493) preserves a minute portion of the same inscription

4 3 9 Cf A n ~ a r n a P1 XX Citw I I P1 XXSVI 1 2

4 4 0 Cf i n ~ a r n o P1 XIX C i t y 1 1 P1 XXXVI 1 2

an arm holding the symbol of (many years and having suspended from it one or more related symbols can be made out the lower part of the cnrtouche with the name ([Amen]hotep Ruler of Thebes

A fragmentary vase of white faience (e) and another of yellow faience (not

both decorated and inscribed in dark blue preserve on their sides parts of a rectangular panel with the names and titles of the king The Good God Neb- macrF the Son of RElt Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given [life] forever and por- tions of the kings cartouches appear on fragments of three blue faience dishes -(1 0 and p) and on a segment of a white faience jar-lid (m)Pieces of a jar of blue faience (y) and a saucer of gray fai-ence (r)444 carry the cartouche of Queen Tiy in the first instance accompanying that of the king A small globular vase of pale-green paste represented by the frag- ment (11)) had around its middle an in- cised band of hieroglyphs of which there remain only the words stability well-being and jo[y] -obviously from a long royal titulary In addition there are fragments of two little vases of purple and turquoise-blue n-ith engraved panels of inscription similar to that of the faience vase ( e )

The remaining item shown in Figure 35 (i) is a thin strip of ebony inlay prob- ably from a box or a piece of furniture I ts incised inscription once filled with yellow paint comprises the nbty-name of

4 4 1 I have found no exact parallel to the composi- tion seen here but the elements occur in numerorls representations of this stage of the Sed-festival eg Gayet Temple de Louror P1 LXXI Big 177 ( = L U 111 P1 74 d l Winlock J E B IV P1 IV Chevrier A n n Ser t XLVII 170 P1 XXVI Bisson do la Roque Fouil les I n s t f r Ca i re VIII P1 VII I See also Frankfort K i n g s h i p and the Gods chap vi

4 4 31x1-4 BCc NO11215494 d 4 3 Dark-blue faIence with light-blue lueroglyphs 4 4 4 The inscription of ( q ) is dark blue that of ( r ) is

white 4 d j AIJIA Acc Xos 11215505 and 507

Amenhotep I11 (the T~vo-Goddesses Establisher-of-Laws- (and-)Pacifier-of-the- T ~ v o - L a n d s ) ~ ~ ~followed by the title the Good God which normally precedes the throne-name of the king

VIII MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION8

Probably never very numerous the in- scriptions of this class which have been re- covered from the scanty and thoroughly plundered ruins of the palace buildings are few in number and for the most part ex- tremely fragmentary The majority of them come from the Temple of Amfin which though built of brick like the rest of the palace was provided with inscribed doorframes offering tables stelae and statues of stone and included several rooms the I-alls of which Tvere adorned with moldings ornamental patterns and inscriptions of gilded ~vood and plaster inlaid with blue faience tiles

Since all but one of the pieces of stone plaster and tilework bearing these in-scriptions were reburied at Thehes before the conclusion of the 31useum1s escava- tions in 1920 our knowledge of them is derived almost entirely from photographs sketches hand copies and notes made in the field by Winlock White and Lansing and it is these records now in New York which have provided the illustrations of Figures 36-39 and which form the basis of the discussion to follo~v Sever for ex- ample having seen the fragments of in- scribed offering tables from the palaces rlemple of Amiin I have in Figure 38 simply reprduced a photograph of Lan- sings original pencil sketches of these fragments rearranged and relabeled but otherwise untouched

In the Palace of the King the painted plaster ceiling of the pharaohs bedcham- her had heen decorated down its middle with a succession of great spread vul- t u r e ~ ~ ~ under the wings of each of which

4 4 6 Gauthier 1irre d e ro i i 11 306 ff

were painted in large detailed hieroglyphs the titles and names of Amenhotep 111 Enough fragments of fallen plaster were foundon the floor of the ruined chamber to restore one pair of the inscriptions and a hand copy of these (taken from Win- locks notes for February 1 1911) is given at the top of Figure 39 (1)On the right under the left wing of the vulture one read The Good God Lord of the TWO Lands Nebmacrec Chosen of Rec given life and on the left separated from the foregoing by the legs and tail of the bird The Son of Re Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given life The nomen-cartouche in the latter inscription had been painted over with ~vhitewash-evidently by fol-

lowers of the Aten desirous of obliterating the name of Amiin wherever it occurred448 These appear to have been the only monu- mental inscriptions found by the Muse- ums expedition anywhere in the palace area outside of the inclosure of the Temple of A m i ~ n ~ ~ ~

One of the most interesting pieces of stone discovered in the temple was part of the tip of the plumed headdress of a colossal statue of the god Amfin in dark- gray porphyritic d i ~ r i t e ~ ~ (Fig 36 top) The width of the remaining plume (23 cm) compared with the correspond- ing measurement on the well-known group of- Amiin and Tutcankhamiin in the Louvre451 indicates that the Xllalkata

44 Winlock Bull MMA 1912 p 186 See also Tytus P r e l i m i n a r R e p o r t pp 18 20 and cf Capart L S r t amp g y p t i e n I PI 147 Prisse dnvennes IIilttuirc iie l ar t i g y p t i e n ttins I trchitecture PI [I

4 s Cf Tytus o p r i t p 10

4 9 See however i b id pp 10 25

450 A stone often and (I am told) incorrectly tle- scribed as black granite The fragment which is 46 cm in height and 30 cm in width was found by Lansing during the season of 1916-17 near the cen- tral portion of the temple proper Pieces of probably the same statue (described as unimportant frag-ments of a black granite statue) were found by White during the preceding season in the same general locality

4 5 1 Benedite M o n u m e n t s P io t S S I V 47-68 See also E n c y r l o p P d i e p h o t o g r a p h i y u r d e l a r t 1 L e ~ l l u s i e d u L o u v r e pp 78-79

statue when complete n-as 440 meters or ahout fourteen ant1 a half feet in height A s in the Louvre group the got1 as pro)- ably represented seated on a throne Ivith perhaps a smaller figure of the king stand- ing or kneeling before him452 Admirably carved and beautifully finished the statue may have been the temples principal cult image though its huge size tends to mili- tate against this-53 I ts back pilaster car- ried three vertical coliimns of incised hieroglyphic inscriptions of which are pre-

served the groups [Q] 1

r r-hat the tops of the sec-

ond and third columns respectively (Fig 36 upper right)

A fragment of sandstone door-lintel (Fig 36 lower left) found lying on the sur- face of the ground inside the temple in- losu sure^^^ was photographed by Evelyn FThite during the season of 1914-15 The piece measures 70 cm in length and 83 cm in height the lintel having been originally about 107 cm high-a sizable block of stone Its decoration lightly incised anti somewhat carelessly executed was whol- ly conventional a winged suns disk and helon- it two horizontal lines of inscrip tion with the titles and names of Amen- hotep III05 The kings prenomen [Neb]- ma [re ] with the epithet Heir of Re ( i l l s - f R-) included in the cartouche is fairly c ~ m m o n ~ occurring for example on a piece of re-used() sandstone relief found in the temple of Eye and IIorem- heb14j7which lies about a kilometer to the north of the palace area The tops of the

signs 18 a t its extreme left end are all

3 See Varille K a r n a k I 8-9 PI X V 4 5 3 See Holscher hxcavatzon o l f e d z n ~ f Hahu

IIT 26 154 White Bul l f~f-l1915 p 256 Lansing Bull

1fMd Alarch 1918 Supp lement p 8 4 2 5 Cf Varille K a r n a k I PI XII 17 456 Gauthier Lzvre des roiu 11 316 X X I X 317

SSS318 X S X I V 4 5 7 Hiilscher Excanalion o Medinet Habu 11 101

PI 43 n

that remain of the second line of inscrip- tion

A pair of fragmentary sandst onc tloor- jaml)s (Fig 36 lower right) though similar in style are smaller in scale than the lintel measuring only 20 cm in width the right jamb being preserved to a height of 70 cm They are from Lansings excavations of 1916-17 in the templearea Each evidently bore one of the names of Amenhotep 111 f ollo~r-ed by the expressions beloved of such-and-such a divinity and given life like RP forever Flre may guess that on the left jamb the deity referred to was Amen-Re [Lord of] Heaven and what remains of the signs a t the top of the frag- ment of the right jamb suggests the name of the goddess Shesmet (Ssmtt)45~luch more interesting than the principal in-scriptions are the tu-o small lines of text written near the bottom of the right jamb and given in hand copy in Figure 39 2 These inform us that the doorway or the structure to which it belonged was made under the direction of the Treasurer of the King of Lower Egypt the StolistGq of 3Iin-Amfin the Fourth Prophet of Amiin Simtit the justified

A prominent member of the hierarchy of hmiin Simiit is named as Fourth Prophet of the god in a statue inscription in Brussels together n-ith his three superi- ors the First Prophet Bleryptah the Second Prophet (and brother-in-law of the king) ltAnen and the Third Prophet Amenemhet460 Since the inscription re-ferred to is dated to Year 20 of Amenho- tep I11 and the chapel of Amiin in the Jfalkata palace was probably built for the celebration of the kings second Sed-

0 W b IT538 Budge Dic t ionary p 753 Gard O n 11 125

4 5 9 S m See Grdseloff A n n Serl XLITI 357 f f The title Stolist of AIin-ArnGn was borne in the Nineteenth Dynasty by IEhaCeniwast a so11 of the High Priest of B m h Wepwawetnlose (Lefebvre Histoire des yrands pramptres c l i ln~o7t p 240)

460 Capart and Spiegelberg -4 n 71 Sac A r eh d e Brurel les XVI 167 Fig 2

festival in Year 34461 it mould appear that Simtit held the rank of Fourth Prophet for about fourteen years462 Before the end of his career he was elevated to the grade of Second Prophet of Amiin and is so re- ferred to on toTo statues3 and two shawnbty-figure~~~4in the Cairo Museum He appears in the reliefs of the temple at Soleb participating in the celebration of Amenhotep 111s first Heb-~ed~ and lvas the owner of a decorated tomb on the Dira abul Naga at ThebesG6 On one of his statues in Cairo467 he bears the title First Kings Son of Amiin and the presence of his name on a doorway of one of the kings temples suggests that like ane en he -as related to Amenh~t~ep I11 either by blood or by marriage The fact that he was evi- dently in charge of what during the reign of Amenhotep I11 must have been the fourth most important of tmhe Theban temples of Amtin further suggests that there oras some sort of nominal division of responsibility between the four prophets of the god-the High Priest presiding at Karnak and delegating the immediate supervision of the Luxor temple the kings mortuary temple and the Malkata

401 See above p 85

402 Possibly less Sirniit may have received his ap- pointment as Fourth Prophet in Year 20 itself and the Malkata temple may have been built and inscribed a year or two before the celebration of the second Heb-sed During the reigns of Sethy I and Ramesses 11 Bakenkhonsu who eventually became High Priest of Amfin served twelve years as a Father of the God flf- teen years as Third Prophet and twelve years as Sec- ond Prophet (Lefebvre Hzstozre des g r a n d s p r l t r r s p 128)

463 Borchardt S t a t u e n t l nd S ta tue t t en 111161 Ko 932 IV 60 IGo 1107

4 6 4 Mariette Cat yl n des m o n u m e n t s d d b y d o s Nos 389 and 3 9 0 incorrectly dated by SIariette (and Lefebvre o p czt p 24 K O 1) to the late Middle K~ngdom The two Simiits listed by Lefebvre ( l ac czt IGos 1 and 9) are clearly one and the same man

465 Lepsius D e n k m u l e r 111PI 84 b

468 Porter-Sfoss T o p B i b l I 187 1 Varille A n n Seru S L 642 n 3

4 6 7 No 1107 See above n 483

temple to the Second Third and Fourth Prophets respectively

Similt may also have been the o-ner of a rough little sandstone stela a few bat- tered fragments of 11-hich mere recovered by Lansing from the ruins of the temple proper and are shown in the photograph at the bottom of Figure 37 A rectangular slab something over 45 cm in thickness the stela Ivas once painted white with blue hieroglyphs and red dividing lines the latter spaced on the average 3 em apart Preserved are parts of a seven-line inscription surmounting an incised design of indeterminate nature and comprising portions of the autobiography of a priest or temple official of Amtin With the aid of Lansings hand copy a revised version of which is given in Figure 39 (3) we can make out the following phrases

(1) the Prince of Princes468 [intro]ducetl me into the House of Amfin

(2) for his469 son Nehmacrei who be- longs to

(3) - V amp [ ~ ] W ( )a long lifetime as king living

(4) life() great of victories ( 5 ) Went [dou~n] the Kings [Daughter]

HenettonehQ in front of (6) great of hirn who causes rnonu-

ment which is (7) in the place the gods words which

he recited Mention has already been made of the

tile and gilded plaster decoration of a row

6 Probably Amenhotep 111 (see Varille A n n Sera XXXIII 93-94 XXXIV 13-16 Capart C h r o n d Eq X 322-24 Gauthier Liare des ro i s 11 315 XXV 316 XXVIII) though the epithet F k l h g i w was current before his time being borne for example by Amenhotep I1on his great quartzite stela from Sakkiireh (1 34 Badaw-i A n n S e r e XLII 23 P1 I)

468 ilmiins There is however a bare possibility that the pronoun and the epithet Prince of Princes in the preceding line refer to Thutmose IV

4 7 0 Amenhotep 111ssecond eldest daughter and the senior princess following Sitamiins elevation to the status of queen See Gauthier o p ci t 11 341-42 Hayes Bull M M d 1948 pp 272 276-78

horizon4 M a y he he given4 life stability md well-being [forever]

Thc expression Offering-of-the-1lt001 (wdn 11 tp-ht) leaves little room for doubt that these small stone basins formed part of the furnishings of an elevated open-air sanctuary of the type dedicated to the worship of the sun-god (Rec of the Roof479 and known from texts of the Twentieth Dynasty and later times to have been called the House of RP of the Roof of the House of Amtin4xo Such a sanctuary existed in the great temple a t Karnak as early as the reign of Thut-mose III481and the presence of one in so small and unimportant a temple as that of the Llalkata palace indicates how prevalent shrines of this type must have been in the Amtin temples of the period

Since the function of our offering tables was presumably to receive libations and gifts of food presented to the sun-god it seems frivolous to suggest that they I-ould also have been useful for catching the fresh myrrh and fresh incense which Heaven in tn70 Eighteenth Dynasty in- scriptions is said to rain down upon the roofs of royal temples482

A glance a t the plan of the northern- most quarter of the palace published by

in 1918shows that the Temple

4 7 7 R-m](~c)[(n)RCwbnm iht ] Cf Aeg Inschr Brr- lin 11182No 7290 For Rec wenlightperhaps sub- stitute Aten (the disk of the sun not the god of Amarna) as in Berlin 7274 and 7271 (deg Inschr 11 154 and 105)

[I di] nb etc Cf Cairo 23040 23073 (Ka-mal op cit)

4 7 9 R tp-hl or R m tp-ht (Re in the Roof) a form of the god worshiped as early as the reigu of Kir~g Sahurec of the Fifth Dynasty and referred to in two places on the Palermo Stoue (verso 3 1 and 4 3 Schafer Ein Bruchstuck altagyptischer Annalen pp 36 and 39)

4 8 Pr-RC tp-ht Pr-Imn See the references giveu in (iard On 11 216 under -4 462 and in Kees Orirntalia XVIII 436-30

Icees op cit pp 427-42

48 Spiegelberg 24~LIII 99

fl Op cil p 9

of Amtin properly speaking occupied only the c+entral section of a long ljuiltiing cstcntling across the tcrracactl 11cst eritl of a vast ~valletl inclosure (see nlho Pig 1 above) The northern lying of this build- ing appears to have been given over to offices and magazines-probably for the contributions to the kings second Neb-scd -but the richly decorated rooms at its southern end were certainly intended for some less utilitarian purpose and its southeast corner was taken up by a luxuri- ously appointed dwelling house or small palace On the north sitie of the main in- closure are the remains of a large multi- piered huilding nhich is believed to have been the kings Srd-festival anti adjoining this on the west a succession of courts and smaller buildings To the south and east of the inclosure are the ruins of other structures including several large and handsome villas There is every probability that the inclosure once con-tained a big rectangular pool of r ~ - a t e r ~ ~ ~ fed perhaps from the principal palace lake the present-day Birket IIabu

Some distance south of the main city at Tell el hmarna there is a generally similar architectural layout consisting of two big rectangular inclosures lying side by side and containing in addition to pools villas magazines and other build- ings a small temple This temple was presumably dedicated to the Aten and the whole complex was called the m3rur or pleasure-precinct() of the Aten- usually referred to by modern ~vriters simply as ilIaru-hten486

Like Pr-hcy the name nhich he used

4 See above p 85

A usual feature of the larger ancient Egyptian courtyards and one which would explain the complete absence of building remains in the central portion of this inclosure

8 8 City I chap v Pls S X I X fl The riame XIarll- 4teuW and the word m3ria are discussed by Ciu11n 011 pp 133-58

the and its wine is (even) more plentifulm3 than for his principal palace a t A m a r ~ ~ a ~ ~ ~ term m3rw was probably derived by Akhenaten from some portion of his fathers palace at Thebes where how- ever the full name ~vould in all likelihood have been the m3rw of Amiin Granted that a part of the Theban palace was so named n-e can hardly doubt that the part in question was the isolated northern quarter with the temple and inclosure of Amiin

Fortunately there is inscriptional evi- dence to show that hmenhotep I11actual-ly did build a Maru-Amtin across the river from Luxor in the general locality -

occupied by the illalkata temple inclo- sure This evidence is found in lines 12-14 of the kings well-known granite stela in C a i r~ ~here following descriptions of the mortuary temple in western Thebes and the temple a t Luxor there appears the follo~i-ing account of a hitherto un-identified structure

Ariotller nlonulrie~it which His Majesty 111tde for his father Amfin making for him a

r r i l n i (gt-) as an offering to the god -I n

oppositeg Soutllern a place ofO ~ e t ~ ~ ~ arnusernent for my Father in his goodly festi- va l (~ ) In it I erected a great templeM1 (which is) like the Sun (Rc)when it appears in glory on the horizon and ~vhich is planted with all (kinds of) flowers Fair is the Primaeval Water (inla) which ii in its lake at every season4g2

8 See above pp 178 and 182

1x5 Ko 34025 See Lacau Stkles ilu Touuel E m p i r e 11 S V I The text as restored by Sethy I contains a t~rirnber of iniswritings which are emended by Spiegel- berg in R e c l r a a S X 4CL43 (see esp p 41 UII 5-9)

l a gHl-I lr -n before the face of facing-here I believe in the sense of directly across (the iVile) from Compare the common expression for west- err1 Thebes Bft-l~in b s Opposite-her-Lord ( I i7b 111 276 b)

The temple of Luxor On a map of Thebes a line drau-n from the sanctuary of the Lrixor temple a r ~ d projected westward a t right angles to the corirse of the river passes just to the north of the palace area

(I t -nr r t a stock expression uot really in- dicative of the actual size of the temple which irl this case happeus to have bee11 relatively small

(its) water-like the pouring forth of the Inun- dation (Hpy)a4 created by the Lord of Eter- nity Numerous are the possessions of the place The taxes of every country are received and plentiful tribute is brought before my Father being the presentations of all lands

Aside from the comments made in the footnotes there seems to be nothing which needs to be added to this description of what would appear to have been the northern quarter of the Malkata palace except to note that for an inscription of its type and period it is unusually accurate and complete

IX MISCELLANEOUS INSCRIPTIONS

Among the few inscribed objects found in the ruins of the palace which do not belong to one of the eight categories al- ready discussed were two fragments of a name-stone of H a t ~ h e p s u t ~ ~ j picked up by Lansing in November 1917 in the vil- lage area to the n-est of the North Pa1ace here can be little doubt that the stone

came originally from the temple of Hat- shepsut and Thutmose I11 at Medinet Habu where numerous examples of the same type have been found4 and that it had wandered thence into the palace area at a relatively recent date

Mixed in with the fragments of in-scribed jars from the Palace of the King were two potsherds with portions of Eighteenth Dynasty hieratic copies of two famous literary texts the Instruction of hmenemhet I (Fig 39 4)495 and a n-ell-

4 0 2 Thanks u e may suppose to the channel con- necting the Uirket Habri with the Nile (see Engelbach and 12facaldin B u l l rle I I n s t rlampgple XS52)

4 9 3 See the second column of the table of Fig 16 above

4 0 1 See De Brick On the 3Ieaning of the Name fPpj Orzentalza S e e r l a n d z c a 1049 pp 1-22

6 Ou stones of this type see my O s t r a k a a n d Tame- S t o n r s pp 45-46

4 9 6 See eg Holscher E r c a c a t i o n o M e d i n e t I I a b u 1132 Figs 27 28

0 Small portions of the begitlr~irlg of the text (Pap Sallier 11 1-2) are preserved

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known model letter of the earlier Middle Iiingdom (Fig 39 5)498

MTith the exception of some pieces of in- scribed alabaster vases from the store- rooms of the Temple of Amdn499 of xvhich unhappily I can find no copies or photo- graphs this completes the corpus of Eighteenth Dynasty inscriptions recov-erecl from the palace by the Metropolitan 3luseums espedibion A few Late Dynas- tic burials with inscribed coffins some Demotic ostraka and half a dozen in- scribed amphorae of the Greco-Roman Period were also found but these have no bearing on the history of the Malkata as

a royal residence-a history which seems to have ended abruptly vith the rise of the Nineteenth Dynasty

Exclusive of Amenhotep I11 himself thirteen royal persons are mentioned on inscribed objects found within the con- fines of the Malkata palace Though the names of some of these persons appear on objects or in contests of no particular his- torical significance it seems desirable nevertheless to list them all in chronologi- cal order accompanied by indications of the types and quantities of the inscrip- tions in which they occur

Hatshepsut I name-stone probably from rtledinet Habu Thutmose 111 4 document-sealings (Types S 1 2 Fig 31) 4

scarabs (Types R 24-27 Fig 34) Amenliotep 11 2 document-sealings (Type S 3 Fig 31) Tllutnlose I V 9 jar-labels (Types 31 32 45 Figs 5 t i ) 2 docu-

ment-sealings (Types S 4 5 Fig 31) Queen JIute~nuya I jar-label (Type 64 Fig 7) Queer1 Tiy I jar-label (Type 98 Fig 8) numerous brick

stimys (Types 111 IT Fig 30) 32 ring bezels (Types R 12-16 Fig 34) 2 scarabs (p 233 and n 419) 1 kohl-tube and 2 rase fragment^ (Fig 35 d q r)

Tlic Kings (Great) Wife (=T iy ) 26 jar-labels (Types 7 18 94 129 147 172 207 Figs 4 8 10 11 1314) 1jar-sealing (Tgt-pe 0 Fig 26)

Queen Sitarniln 51 jar-labels (Types 94-97 112 113 137 139 Figs8911) 2 ring bezels (Type R 17 Fig 34)

Princess Henettoneb Rlentioned on a sandstone stela (Figs 37 bot-tom 39 3)

Irince Arnenhotep (=Amenliotep IV ) 1 jar-sealing (Type KK Fig 27) ilmenhotep IV (ilkhenaten) 3 document-sealings (Types S 97 120 124 Fig

33) 1 ring bezel (Type H 18 Fig 34) Smenklikar 2 ring bezels (Types R 19 20 Fig 34) Tutcankhnmtin I ring bezel (Type R 21 Fig 34) (JueenAnkhesenamOn (CZrlkhesenpatten) 1 document-sealing (Type P 125 Fig 33) 1 ring

bezel (Type R 22 Fig 34) Horelnlieb 1 fragment of sandstone doorjamb (Fig 37 1q1-

per right)

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amples R 6 and 12400 by 4 examples each R 8 by 3 examples 114N159 15 and 16 1)y 2 examples each and R 7 and 17-22 1)y the single specimens shown in the draw- ings

All told there are 451 bezels bear- ing the names of Amenhotep 111 (Nebma~rE~)[396] Nebmacrampc Image of Rampc [j]or Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes [50]) 32 bearing the name of Queen Tiy 2 with the name of Queen Sitamfin2 1 with the name of Amen- hotep IV ((Neferkheprurec Wacenre) 2 with the names of SmenkhkarF (cAnkhkheprurampcH and cAnkhkhepruramp Beloved of WacenrF) and 1 each with the names of Tutcankhamfin (Nebkhep- rurampc) and Queen ~Ankhesenpaaten

Types R 18-22 and 2 examples each of Types R 1 3 12 and 13 are from Tytus work in the Palace of the King (see Fig lj4Ohnd are noy in the Brooklyn r I u ~ e u m ~ ~ ~The others are in the Metro- politan SIuseum of Art4u5 having come from the Museums excavations of 1910- 204j The bulk of these are from the Palace of the King and its subsidiary buildings The ruins of the South Palace produced 125 rings including 6 of the 32 examples with the name of Queen Tiy

400 The two examples of R 12 represented by the drawing of Fig 34 are of purple fdence with the in- scription incrusted in pale-green glaze

401 In both examples of R 4 the bezel is a n open- work design molded in apple-green faIence Here the prenomen of Amenhotep I11 is written with the nb-sign surmounted by a seated Agure of the falcon- headed sun-god RCholding the feather mt (Petrie Scarabs and Cvlinders PI YXXIV 118 Historical Scarabs No 1178 Cf above p 158 and 11 280)

402 R 17 and a n example published by Xewberry in P S B A XXIV 247

103 See above n 3

404 kccession Nos 486620 21 47 48 and unacces- sioned M y thanks are again extended to Mr Cooney for drawing my attention to this material and permit- ting me to publish i t

405 Accession hos 1121569-76 78-89 124 and unaccessioned

40 Bee above n 1 The rings and other small ob- jects found by Daressy in the palace ( A n n Seru I V 16s) appear not to have been published

The faience and glass factories40i of the South Tillage yielded 99 examples and those of the Tillage Area west of the Xortll Palace 14 more Thirty fragmentary rings were found in the southern rubbish mounds and one example (of Type R 6) in the Temple of Amfin

The finding of sixteen rings with the name of Tiy as against every one with the name of Sitamfin is in direct contrast to the evidence of the jar-labels where the ratio is at least two to one in favor of the younger queen408 This is perhaps at-tributable to the fact that the jar-labels in question all date from the last ten years of the reign while the rings come without exception from the older buildings of the palace group and may therefore be sup- posed to reflect an earlier period in the history of the palace-a period when Tiy alone was the Kings Great TTTife and Sitamfin was only a senior princess

Taken in conjunction with the evidence of the jar-labels of Type 6409 the docu- ment sealings of Types S 124 and 125O and the Atenist erasures in the palace in- s c r i p t i o n ~ ~ ~ ~ cer-the ring-bezels R 18-22 tainly indicate that the palace of Amen- hotep I11 was occupied during the reigns of Akhenaten Smenkhkarec and Tut-ankha am fin To what extent it was occu- pied by these kings themselves is less cer- tain Akhenaten appears to hare resided in it during the first five years of his core- gency with his father4I2 and again-prob- ably briefly-in the twelfth year of his reign413 Smenkhkarec was apparently

40 Tytus Preliminarv Report p 25 iYew- berry J E 4 TI 156 Winlock Bull M M A 1912 PP 185 187 White Bz~l i l f l f J 1915 p 254

40 See above p 98

409 See above Fig 4 and pp 35 88 41deg See above Fig 33 and p 177

See above p 37 and below pp 236 238 See also Tytus o p c i t p 10 and L a n s i n ~ Bull l f J I 4 March 1918 Supplement p 12

See above pp 35 37 88 3 See above p 180

INSCI~IPTI(IXSFROM THE P

Iluriecl a t Thehes and may have lived there for a few months preceding his death414 I t is not unlikely that Tut-cankhamfin occupied the Malkata palace upon his return to Thebes though the evidence for this is admittedly slight The name of his wife appears zs we have seen on two small monuments from the palace on a ring-bezel (R 22) in its earlier form ~Ankhesenpaaten and on a document sealing (S 125) as cAnkhesenamfin The latter name -as adopted by the young queen follo~ving her husbands reversion to the worship of Bmnn an event which apparently took place sometime after the return of the royal couple to Thebesj

With the exceptions of R 4 and R 7 all the ring-bezels from the palace of Amen- hotep I11 are duplicated or closely paral- leled hy example found at Tell el Amarna 41G

V1 SCARABS COTILOIDS PLAQUES

AM17LETSA S D MOLDS

The lower half of Figure 34 (R 23-44) reproduces the inscriptions on forty-one assorted seals amulets and molds found for the most part in or near the Palace of the King either by Tytus in 1902i or by mTinlock in 1910-11~5It 37 and 38 are from the southern rubbish mounds anti R 25 42 and 43 form part of a string of amulets discovered in the complex of 1)uiltiings east of the Palace of the King Lansings field notes for the season of 1917--18 record the finding of two ex-amples of R 31 and a steatite scarah of Queen Tiy419 in the Village Area n-est of the Sor th Palace

The scarabs (R 24-28 31 32 35-39) are of blue or green glazed steatite or

6 Engelbach -4 n n Serc S L 135 137-39 148 f f Pendlebury Te l l el-4 m a r n a pp 9 28

Engelbach op c i t pp 160 f f

ltImarna PI S I T - 10-19 21 22 24 50-55 PlX90)1 91-101 103 110

$ 5 See above n 3 IhSee above 11 1

more rarely of blue faience (R 24 and 3 ex- amples of R 28) the cowroids (R 29) of blue faience the plaques of blue faience (R 33 [l example] 41) yellow faience (R 23) green glazed steatite (R 33 14 ex- amples]) or green paste (R 40) the frog- amulets (I330 34) of blue faience the fish-amulets (R 42 43)4n of blue or green glazed steatite and the molds (R 44) of hard fine-grained reddish-brorr-n pot-tery 42

There are six examples of R 28 five ex- amples of R 33 four examples each of R 31 and R 44 three examples of R 29 two examples each of R 30 34 and 36 and one example of each of the other types The pieces from Tytus n-ork (R 23 26 27 39 40 one example of R 28 and three examples of R 44) are now in the Brooklyn 1 Iu~eum~~ The rest are in the iLletropolitan rIuseum of Art424

Duplicates or close parallels to R 24-42 I ill he found in I-Ialls Catalogue o j hgyp-tian Y r a r ~ b s ~ ~ ~ in S e n berrys Scarabs4

fl 18X 13x 09 cm Similar to Kewberry Scarab-shaped S e a l s S o 36234 and Hall o p c i t Kos 1929-30 According to Chron d 2 E g VII 123 there is in the Kcstner JIuseum in Hanover UII petit scarabolde de Taya provenant du palais dAlnAno- phis 111

See Reisner i lmu l t t s Nos 12451-86 Pis XSIII-AKXIV Petrie A m u l c t s No 18 PI 11

47 See Reisner o p cit Sos 12488-90 PI S A Y I T Lanzone Diz ionar io p 50 No 12

2 See d m a r n o p 28 The molds with the impres- sion of Type R 44 are roughly rectangular lumps of pottery averaging 34 cm in length 25 cm in u-idth and 12 cm in tllickness I n addition to these there are two molds (XIJIA Acc 11215699 700) for producing falence ornaments in the form of a hunch of grapes ( i l m a r n a PI XI-Y) with the prerlolnerl- cartouche of Ameuhotep I11 (SebmaCr6) vertical in the center of the drsign ( ley I n s c h r B e r l i n 11 261 No 9473) Thegt- were found in 1911 near the Palace of the King

a 3 Accession iYos 486622 23 and unaccessioned

4 4 Accession Nos 112152-9 18-22 29 37 38 52 54 55 207 216 12180384 and unaccessioned

2 i Y ~ ~ 611-29 (R 24) 851-53 (R 25) 1003 (R 26) 1754-59 (R 29) 1760 (R 30) 1753 2852 (R 31 32) 1761 (R34) 1796 1797 (R351 1787-90 (R 361 1814 (R 371 1149 iR 38) 1623 (R 39) 637 638 (R 42)

2 Pls X X l S 41 iR 24) S X S 2 (R 38) 26 iR 291 27 (R 28) 39 (R 36) 30 ( H 37)

a Scnmb-shaped Seals4 and in Petries Flistorical qcarab~~~ and Scarabs and Cyl-i n d e r ~ ~ ~From the parallels occurring in these publications it would appear that R 39 is to be read Sebma~rEc Idion of Rulers (nz3i hamp[w]) 430 The roughly cut legend of the fish-amulet R 43 is pre- sumably the name of a divinity-possibly that of the Syrian god Resheph (Rsptn) The inscription of the molds R 44 ((Neb- maCrFl Lord of Secl-festivaljs] may be compared with those of the document- sealingsof Figures 31 and 32 (S 24-2759) The little cartouche-shaped plaque-pen- dant R 23 contains the first part of the (didactic name of the god Aten in its earlier form (RP lives Harakhte who rejoices [on the Horizon])432 and is paral- leled I)y numerolls examples found at Tell el 14marna433

Little of historical value is to be de- rived from these small monuments The hcaarahs of Thutmose I11 may have been niade in the reign of Amenhotep I11 (see ZAS S L I 70) or may have been heir- looms inherited by inmates of the palace from their grandparents or great-grand- parents B y themselves they are certainly not evidence that the palace area was ever occupied bp Thutmose I11 or his contemporaries The molds of Type I1 44

lsquobias 36106 (R 24) 36209 36220 36222 iR 31 32 36211 36224 36225 (R 28) 36685 ff (R 42)

4laN0S 1171 (R 29) 1179 (R 301 1183 (R 31-33) 11x5 (R 28) 1239 (R 37) 1241 (R 38) 1245-47 (R 36) 1255 (R 39) 1275 (R 42) 1283-84 (R 33)

4 2 9 PIS XXVI 8 9 R 24) XXVII 49 (R 26) SXVIII 7 6 8 0 (R 24) XSXIII 48-51 (R 28) 58 (R 39) 60 (R 36) X S X I V 75-82 (R 30) 88 89 91 (R 29) SXXV 126 (R 33) 139 (R 41) See also h a h u n Gurob and FIavara PI 99111 1 10 11 12 I111 I l i a h u n R a h u n an11 Guroh Pl XXIII 9 15 17 19

f loSee Varllle Bull I n s t fr Cazre XXSV 167 n 3 IIzcronl Text Brzt Afur -I11 (rd Edwards) 14 PI 91 Ff the pt xonal name mi-n-hamp3io (Ranhe P r r s o n ~ n n a m r n I 144 7)

rsi For the wr~ting of the name see a b o ~ e p 158 arid n 280

Srthe Yachr Goitznurn 1921 p 113 Gunn J E I I S 168-76 esp p 173

3 3 3 l m a l n a PI X l V 65 ff

were probably used on the occasion of one of Amenhotep 111s Sed-festivals to pro- duce small faience plaques commemorat- ing the event The plaque with the name of the god Aten (R 23) tends to support the evidence already adduced that the palace was a t one time occupied by an Atenist pharaoh or his follo~vers

VII INSCRIBED FA~ENCEVASES KOIIL-

TUBES AND OIHEH SMALL OBJECTS

Winlocks excavations of 1910-12 in the Palace of the King and the buildings to the east ancl west of it yielded the frag- ments of a quantity of small objects chiefly of faience which are perhaps more interesting for their variety than for the inscriptions which they bear Most of these are in the Metropolitan AIuseum and are illustrated in Figure 35434 Their dimensions may be determined from the centimeter scale a t the bottom of the il- lustration

Fragments (a) (Fig 34 scale 12) arid (b) are sections of model throw-sticks of blue faience a type of amulet well known from tombs and temples of the Eighteenth Dynasty433 but rarely found in the drvell- ings of the living436 Both pieces are in- scribed in black with portions of the nomen-cartouche of Amenhotep I11 (Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes) in one case (a) surmounting a m - s y m b o l and accompanied by the wampf-eye above

4 3 4 LIMA Acc Nos 11215371 495 503 504 508 509 510 511 512 518 519 520 530 717 12180372 and373 = F i g 3 5 f ~ k i d ~ 6 n g r p o h i 1 arid q respectively The fragmentary falence jar-lid i m ) from Tytns work is among the unaccessioried material in the Brooklyn IIuseum Cf 4marna PI SIII 13-21

4 3 5 Daressy Pouilles de la I-allbe drv Rois 9 0 s 24337-47 Carter and New-berry T h e Tonbh of Thotrt- mss i s I T Nos 46404-18 Daressy in Davis T h e T o m b o f Queen Ttyi pp 38-39 P1 V 2 3 4 Petrie Re-sparches i n S i n a i pp 144-45

436 No examples in falence seem to be recorded from the town sites at Gurob and Deir el Sfedineh and a fine specimen from Amarna (British SIlrsenm 34213 [Guide to the Fourth P i f t h and S i z t h E g y p t i a n Ilooms pp 144--451) may well be from a tomb or temple

R I NGS S C A R A B S E T C S C A L E II

R 3 R 5

R 6 R 6 R 7 R 9 R 10

mal t

FIG 35-Inscribed small objects from the Palace of Amenhotep I11

FIG 36-Statue and door-frame fragments from the Temple of Amtin in the Palace of Amen- hotep 111

I

FIG 37-Insrribed fragir~ents of plaster and sandstone from the Palace of ~menhott~) 111

FIG 38 -Offering tables

H A N D - C O P I E S A N D O S T R A K A

three n f r - ~ i g n s ~ ~ ~ in the other (b) fol- lowed by the epithet [beloved of] Amen- It Lord of Heaven

The prenomen of Amenhotep 111 (Kebmac[rEc]) appears in the openwork design of a handsome but unfortunately fragmentary bracelet of bright-blue fai- ence (r)

The lo]-er part of a kohl-tube of yellow faience with the inscriptions encrusted in deep-purplish-blue glaze (d) bears the cartouche of Queen Tiy and the wish -lay she live Fragments of t xo similar tubes in white faience (j)and pale-green faience ( k ) were inscribed also in dark blue n-ith the titles and name of the king The Good God Lord of the Two Lands NebmacrEc [given] life43a

-4 white faience lotus-petal pendant (f)439 is tipped with a blob of yellow glaze and adorned in dark-blue glaze with the prenomen-cartouche of Amenhotep I11 surmountetl by the solar disk (red) and double plume Part of the same cartouche without the plumes appears in dark blue on a fragment of a molded lotus-flower ornament of pale green and white fay- ence ( h ) 440

The most interesting of the vase frag- ments is a small piece from the side of a blue fafence goblet (g) engraved on the exterior with part of a Scd-festival scene441 At the right the king appears heated in a pavillion wearing the Crown of Lon-er Egypt and holding in his hands the crook and flail At the left above

4 1 r Cf Hall op c i t No 2880 Daressy Fouil lrs No 24298 4 Petrie S i x T p n ~ p l e s P1 V 11 The ud3t-eye alone appears on most of the examples cited above in n 435 The design shown in Fig 34 is repeated on the other side of the throw-stick in this case however w-ith the throne-name of the king (NebmacrGc) The fragment was found by Lansing during the season of 1917-18 in a house south of the Temple of Aman

4 3 8 A third example in green faience (MMA Acc No 11215493) preserves a minute portion of the same inscription

4 3 9 Cf A n ~ a r n a P1 XX Citw I I P1 XXSVI 1 2

4 4 0 Cf i n ~ a r n o P1 XIX C i t y 1 1 P1 XXXVI 1 2

an arm holding the symbol of (many years and having suspended from it one or more related symbols can be made out the lower part of the cnrtouche with the name ([Amen]hotep Ruler of Thebes

A fragmentary vase of white faience (e) and another of yellow faience (not

both decorated and inscribed in dark blue preserve on their sides parts of a rectangular panel with the names and titles of the king The Good God Neb- macrF the Son of RElt Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given [life] forever and por- tions of the kings cartouches appear on fragments of three blue faience dishes -(1 0 and p) and on a segment of a white faience jar-lid (m)Pieces of a jar of blue faience (y) and a saucer of gray fai-ence (r)444 carry the cartouche of Queen Tiy in the first instance accompanying that of the king A small globular vase of pale-green paste represented by the frag- ment (11)) had around its middle an in- cised band of hieroglyphs of which there remain only the words stability well-being and jo[y] -obviously from a long royal titulary In addition there are fragments of two little vases of purple and turquoise-blue n-ith engraved panels of inscription similar to that of the faience vase ( e )

The remaining item shown in Figure 35 (i) is a thin strip of ebony inlay prob- ably from a box or a piece of furniture I ts incised inscription once filled with yellow paint comprises the nbty-name of

4 4 1 I have found no exact parallel to the composi- tion seen here but the elements occur in numerorls representations of this stage of the Sed-festival eg Gayet Temple de Louror P1 LXXI Big 177 ( = L U 111 P1 74 d l Winlock J E B IV P1 IV Chevrier A n n Ser t XLVII 170 P1 XXVI Bisson do la Roque Fouil les I n s t f r Ca i re VIII P1 VII I See also Frankfort K i n g s h i p and the Gods chap vi

4 4 31x1-4 BCc NO11215494 d 4 3 Dark-blue faIence with light-blue lueroglyphs 4 4 4 The inscription of ( q ) is dark blue that of ( r ) is

white 4 d j AIJIA Acc Xos 11215505 and 507

Amenhotep I11 (the T~vo-Goddesses Establisher-of-Laws- (and-)Pacifier-of-the- T ~ v o - L a n d s ) ~ ~ ~followed by the title the Good God which normally precedes the throne-name of the king

VIII MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION8

Probably never very numerous the in- scriptions of this class which have been re- covered from the scanty and thoroughly plundered ruins of the palace buildings are few in number and for the most part ex- tremely fragmentary The majority of them come from the Temple of Amfin which though built of brick like the rest of the palace was provided with inscribed doorframes offering tables stelae and statues of stone and included several rooms the I-alls of which Tvere adorned with moldings ornamental patterns and inscriptions of gilded ~vood and plaster inlaid with blue faience tiles

Since all but one of the pieces of stone plaster and tilework bearing these in-scriptions were reburied at Thehes before the conclusion of the 31useum1s escava- tions in 1920 our knowledge of them is derived almost entirely from photographs sketches hand copies and notes made in the field by Winlock White and Lansing and it is these records now in New York which have provided the illustrations of Figures 36-39 and which form the basis of the discussion to follo~v Sever for ex- ample having seen the fragments of in- scribed offering tables from the palaces rlemple of Amiin I have in Figure 38 simply reprduced a photograph of Lan- sings original pencil sketches of these fragments rearranged and relabeled but otherwise untouched

In the Palace of the King the painted plaster ceiling of the pharaohs bedcham- her had heen decorated down its middle with a succession of great spread vul- t u r e ~ ~ ~ under the wings of each of which

4 4 6 Gauthier 1irre d e ro i i 11 306 ff

were painted in large detailed hieroglyphs the titles and names of Amenhotep 111 Enough fragments of fallen plaster were foundon the floor of the ruined chamber to restore one pair of the inscriptions and a hand copy of these (taken from Win- locks notes for February 1 1911) is given at the top of Figure 39 (1)On the right under the left wing of the vulture one read The Good God Lord of the TWO Lands Nebmacrec Chosen of Rec given life and on the left separated from the foregoing by the legs and tail of the bird The Son of Re Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given life The nomen-cartouche in the latter inscription had been painted over with ~vhitewash-evidently by fol-

lowers of the Aten desirous of obliterating the name of Amiin wherever it occurred448 These appear to have been the only monu- mental inscriptions found by the Muse- ums expedition anywhere in the palace area outside of the inclosure of the Temple of A m i ~ n ~ ~ ~

One of the most interesting pieces of stone discovered in the temple was part of the tip of the plumed headdress of a colossal statue of the god Amfin in dark- gray porphyritic d i ~ r i t e ~ ~ (Fig 36 top) The width of the remaining plume (23 cm) compared with the correspond- ing measurement on the well-known group of- Amiin and Tutcankhamiin in the Louvre451 indicates that the Xllalkata

44 Winlock Bull MMA 1912 p 186 See also Tytus P r e l i m i n a r R e p o r t pp 18 20 and cf Capart L S r t amp g y p t i e n I PI 147 Prisse dnvennes IIilttuirc iie l ar t i g y p t i e n ttins I trchitecture PI [I

4 s Cf Tytus o p r i t p 10

4 9 See however i b id pp 10 25

450 A stone often and (I am told) incorrectly tle- scribed as black granite The fragment which is 46 cm in height and 30 cm in width was found by Lansing during the season of 1916-17 near the cen- tral portion of the temple proper Pieces of probably the same statue (described as unimportant frag-ments of a black granite statue) were found by White during the preceding season in the same general locality

4 5 1 Benedite M o n u m e n t s P io t S S I V 47-68 See also E n c y r l o p P d i e p h o t o g r a p h i y u r d e l a r t 1 L e ~ l l u s i e d u L o u v r e pp 78-79

statue when complete n-as 440 meters or ahout fourteen ant1 a half feet in height A s in the Louvre group the got1 as pro)- ably represented seated on a throne Ivith perhaps a smaller figure of the king stand- ing or kneeling before him452 Admirably carved and beautifully finished the statue may have been the temples principal cult image though its huge size tends to mili- tate against this-53 I ts back pilaster car- ried three vertical coliimns of incised hieroglyphic inscriptions of which are pre-

served the groups [Q] 1

r r-hat the tops of the sec-

ond and third columns respectively (Fig 36 upper right)

A fragment of sandstone door-lintel (Fig 36 lower left) found lying on the sur- face of the ground inside the temple in- losu sure^^^ was photographed by Evelyn FThite during the season of 1914-15 The piece measures 70 cm in length and 83 cm in height the lintel having been originally about 107 cm high-a sizable block of stone Its decoration lightly incised anti somewhat carelessly executed was whol- ly conventional a winged suns disk and helon- it two horizontal lines of inscrip tion with the titles and names of Amen- hotep III05 The kings prenomen [Neb]- ma [re ] with the epithet Heir of Re ( i l l s - f R-) included in the cartouche is fairly c ~ m m o n ~ occurring for example on a piece of re-used() sandstone relief found in the temple of Eye and IIorem- heb14j7which lies about a kilometer to the north of the palace area The tops of the

signs 18 a t its extreme left end are all

3 See Varille K a r n a k I 8-9 PI X V 4 5 3 See Holscher hxcavatzon o l f e d z n ~ f Hahu

IIT 26 154 White Bul l f~f-l1915 p 256 Lansing Bull

1fMd Alarch 1918 Supp lement p 8 4 2 5 Cf Varille K a r n a k I PI XII 17 456 Gauthier Lzvre des roiu 11 316 X X I X 317

SSS318 X S X I V 4 5 7 Hiilscher Excanalion o Medinet Habu 11 101

PI 43 n

that remain of the second line of inscrip- tion

A pair of fragmentary sandst onc tloor- jaml)s (Fig 36 lower right) though similar in style are smaller in scale than the lintel measuring only 20 cm in width the right jamb being preserved to a height of 70 cm They are from Lansings excavations of 1916-17 in the templearea Each evidently bore one of the names of Amenhotep 111 f ollo~r-ed by the expressions beloved of such-and-such a divinity and given life like RP forever Flre may guess that on the left jamb the deity referred to was Amen-Re [Lord of] Heaven and what remains of the signs a t the top of the frag- ment of the right jamb suggests the name of the goddess Shesmet (Ssmtt)45~luch more interesting than the principal in-scriptions are the tu-o small lines of text written near the bottom of the right jamb and given in hand copy in Figure 39 2 These inform us that the doorway or the structure to which it belonged was made under the direction of the Treasurer of the King of Lower Egypt the StolistGq of 3Iin-Amfin the Fourth Prophet of Amiin Simtit the justified

A prominent member of the hierarchy of hmiin Simiit is named as Fourth Prophet of the god in a statue inscription in Brussels together n-ith his three superi- ors the First Prophet Bleryptah the Second Prophet (and brother-in-law of the king) ltAnen and the Third Prophet Amenemhet460 Since the inscription re-ferred to is dated to Year 20 of Amenho- tep I11 and the chapel of Amiin in the Jfalkata palace was probably built for the celebration of the kings second Sed-

0 W b IT538 Budge Dic t ionary p 753 Gard O n 11 125

4 5 9 S m See Grdseloff A n n Serl XLITI 357 f f The title Stolist of AIin-ArnGn was borne in the Nineteenth Dynasty by IEhaCeniwast a so11 of the High Priest of B m h Wepwawetnlose (Lefebvre Histoire des yrands pramptres c l i ln~o7t p 240)

460 Capart and Spiegelberg -4 n 71 Sac A r eh d e Brurel les XVI 167 Fig 2

festival in Year 34461 it mould appear that Simtit held the rank of Fourth Prophet for about fourteen years462 Before the end of his career he was elevated to the grade of Second Prophet of Amiin and is so re- ferred to on toTo statues3 and two shawnbty-figure~~~4in the Cairo Museum He appears in the reliefs of the temple at Soleb participating in the celebration of Amenhotep 111s first Heb-~ed~ and lvas the owner of a decorated tomb on the Dira abul Naga at ThebesG6 On one of his statues in Cairo467 he bears the title First Kings Son of Amiin and the presence of his name on a doorway of one of the kings temples suggests that like ane en he -as related to Amenh~t~ep I11 either by blood or by marriage The fact that he was evi- dently in charge of what during the reign of Amenhotep I11 must have been the fourth most important of tmhe Theban temples of Amtin further suggests that there oras some sort of nominal division of responsibility between the four prophets of the god-the High Priest presiding at Karnak and delegating the immediate supervision of the Luxor temple the kings mortuary temple and the Malkata

401 See above p 85

402 Possibly less Sirniit may have received his ap- pointment as Fourth Prophet in Year 20 itself and the Malkata temple may have been built and inscribed a year or two before the celebration of the second Heb-sed During the reigns of Sethy I and Ramesses 11 Bakenkhonsu who eventually became High Priest of Amfin served twelve years as a Father of the God flf- teen years as Third Prophet and twelve years as Sec- ond Prophet (Lefebvre Hzstozre des g r a n d s p r l t r r s p 128)

463 Borchardt S t a t u e n t l nd S ta tue t t en 111161 Ko 932 IV 60 IGo 1107

4 6 4 Mariette Cat yl n des m o n u m e n t s d d b y d o s Nos 389 and 3 9 0 incorrectly dated by SIariette (and Lefebvre o p czt p 24 K O 1) to the late Middle K~ngdom The two Simiits listed by Lefebvre ( l ac czt IGos 1 and 9) are clearly one and the same man

465 Lepsius D e n k m u l e r 111PI 84 b

468 Porter-Sfoss T o p B i b l I 187 1 Varille A n n Seru S L 642 n 3

4 6 7 No 1107 See above n 483

temple to the Second Third and Fourth Prophets respectively

Similt may also have been the o-ner of a rough little sandstone stela a few bat- tered fragments of 11-hich mere recovered by Lansing from the ruins of the temple proper and are shown in the photograph at the bottom of Figure 37 A rectangular slab something over 45 cm in thickness the stela Ivas once painted white with blue hieroglyphs and red dividing lines the latter spaced on the average 3 em apart Preserved are parts of a seven-line inscription surmounting an incised design of indeterminate nature and comprising portions of the autobiography of a priest or temple official of Amtin With the aid of Lansings hand copy a revised version of which is given in Figure 39 (3) we can make out the following phrases

(1) the Prince of Princes468 [intro]ducetl me into the House of Amfin

(2) for his469 son Nehmacrei who be- longs to

(3) - V amp [ ~ ] W ( )a long lifetime as king living

(4) life() great of victories ( 5 ) Went [dou~n] the Kings [Daughter]

HenettonehQ in front of (6) great of hirn who causes rnonu-

ment which is (7) in the place the gods words which

he recited Mention has already been made of the

tile and gilded plaster decoration of a row

6 Probably Amenhotep 111 (see Varille A n n Sera XXXIII 93-94 XXXIV 13-16 Capart C h r o n d Eq X 322-24 Gauthier Liare des ro i s 11 315 XXV 316 XXVIII) though the epithet F k l h g i w was current before his time being borne for example by Amenhotep I1on his great quartzite stela from Sakkiireh (1 34 Badaw-i A n n S e r e XLII 23 P1 I)

468 ilmiins There is however a bare possibility that the pronoun and the epithet Prince of Princes in the preceding line refer to Thutmose IV

4 7 0 Amenhotep 111ssecond eldest daughter and the senior princess following Sitamiins elevation to the status of queen See Gauthier o p ci t 11 341-42 Hayes Bull M M d 1948 pp 272 276-78

horizon4 M a y he he given4 life stability md well-being [forever]

Thc expression Offering-of-the-1lt001 (wdn 11 tp-ht) leaves little room for doubt that these small stone basins formed part of the furnishings of an elevated open-air sanctuary of the type dedicated to the worship of the sun-god (Rec of the Roof479 and known from texts of the Twentieth Dynasty and later times to have been called the House of RP of the Roof of the House of Amtin4xo Such a sanctuary existed in the great temple a t Karnak as early as the reign of Thut-mose III481and the presence of one in so small and unimportant a temple as that of the Llalkata palace indicates how prevalent shrines of this type must have been in the Amtin temples of the period

Since the function of our offering tables was presumably to receive libations and gifts of food presented to the sun-god it seems frivolous to suggest that they I-ould also have been useful for catching the fresh myrrh and fresh incense which Heaven in tn70 Eighteenth Dynasty in- scriptions is said to rain down upon the roofs of royal temples482

A glance a t the plan of the northern- most quarter of the palace published by

in 1918shows that the Temple

4 7 7 R-m](~c)[(n)RCwbnm iht ] Cf Aeg Inschr Brr- lin 11182No 7290 For Rec wenlightperhaps sub- stitute Aten (the disk of the sun not the god of Amarna) as in Berlin 7274 and 7271 (deg Inschr 11 154 and 105)

[I di] nb etc Cf Cairo 23040 23073 (Ka-mal op cit)

4 7 9 R tp-hl or R m tp-ht (Re in the Roof) a form of the god worshiped as early as the reigu of Kir~g Sahurec of the Fifth Dynasty and referred to in two places on the Palermo Stoue (verso 3 1 and 4 3 Schafer Ein Bruchstuck altagyptischer Annalen pp 36 and 39)

4 8 Pr-RC tp-ht Pr-Imn See the references giveu in (iard On 11 216 under -4 462 and in Kees Orirntalia XVIII 436-30

Icees op cit pp 427-42

48 Spiegelberg 24~LIII 99

fl Op cil p 9

of Amtin properly speaking occupied only the c+entral section of a long ljuiltiing cstcntling across the tcrracactl 11cst eritl of a vast ~valletl inclosure (see nlho Pig 1 above) The northern lying of this build- ing appears to have been given over to offices and magazines-probably for the contributions to the kings second Neb-scd -but the richly decorated rooms at its southern end were certainly intended for some less utilitarian purpose and its southeast corner was taken up by a luxuri- ously appointed dwelling house or small palace On the north sitie of the main in- closure are the remains of a large multi- piered huilding nhich is believed to have been the kings Srd-festival anti adjoining this on the west a succession of courts and smaller buildings To the south and east of the inclosure are the ruins of other structures including several large and handsome villas There is every probability that the inclosure once con-tained a big rectangular pool of r ~ - a t e r ~ ~ ~ fed perhaps from the principal palace lake the present-day Birket IIabu

Some distance south of the main city at Tell el hmarna there is a generally similar architectural layout consisting of two big rectangular inclosures lying side by side and containing in addition to pools villas magazines and other build- ings a small temple This temple was presumably dedicated to the Aten and the whole complex was called the m3rur or pleasure-precinct() of the Aten- usually referred to by modern ~vriters simply as ilIaru-hten486

Like Pr-hcy the name nhich he used

4 See above p 85

A usual feature of the larger ancient Egyptian courtyards and one which would explain the complete absence of building remains in the central portion of this inclosure

8 8 City I chap v Pls S X I X fl The riame XIarll- 4teuW and the word m3ria are discussed by Ciu11n 011 pp 133-58

the and its wine is (even) more plentifulm3 than for his principal palace a t A m a r ~ ~ a ~ ~ ~ term m3rw was probably derived by Akhenaten from some portion of his fathers palace at Thebes where how- ever the full name ~vould in all likelihood have been the m3rw of Amiin Granted that a part of the Theban palace was so named n-e can hardly doubt that the part in question was the isolated northern quarter with the temple and inclosure of Amiin

Fortunately there is inscriptional evi- dence to show that hmenhotep I11actual-ly did build a Maru-Amtin across the river from Luxor in the general locality -

occupied by the illalkata temple inclo- sure This evidence is found in lines 12-14 of the kings well-known granite stela in C a i r~ ~here following descriptions of the mortuary temple in western Thebes and the temple a t Luxor there appears the follo~i-ing account of a hitherto un-identified structure

Ariotller nlonulrie~it which His Majesty 111tde for his father Amfin making for him a

r r i l n i (gt-) as an offering to the god -I n

oppositeg Soutllern a place ofO ~ e t ~ ~ ~ arnusernent for my Father in his goodly festi- va l (~ ) In it I erected a great templeM1 (which is) like the Sun (Rc)when it appears in glory on the horizon and ~vhich is planted with all (kinds of) flowers Fair is the Primaeval Water (inla) which ii in its lake at every season4g2

8 See above pp 178 and 182

1x5 Ko 34025 See Lacau Stkles ilu Touuel E m p i r e 11 S V I The text as restored by Sethy I contains a t~rirnber of iniswritings which are emended by Spiegel- berg in R e c l r a a S X 4CL43 (see esp p 41 UII 5-9)

l a gHl-I lr -n before the face of facing-here I believe in the sense of directly across (the iVile) from Compare the common expression for west- err1 Thebes Bft-l~in b s Opposite-her-Lord ( I i7b 111 276 b)

The temple of Luxor On a map of Thebes a line drau-n from the sanctuary of the Lrixor temple a r ~ d projected westward a t right angles to the corirse of the river passes just to the north of the palace area

(I t -nr r t a stock expression uot really in- dicative of the actual size of the temple which irl this case happeus to have bee11 relatively small

(its) water-like the pouring forth of the Inun- dation (Hpy)a4 created by the Lord of Eter- nity Numerous are the possessions of the place The taxes of every country are received and plentiful tribute is brought before my Father being the presentations of all lands

Aside from the comments made in the footnotes there seems to be nothing which needs to be added to this description of what would appear to have been the northern quarter of the Malkata palace except to note that for an inscription of its type and period it is unusually accurate and complete

IX MISCELLANEOUS INSCRIPTIONS

Among the few inscribed objects found in the ruins of the palace which do not belong to one of the eight categories al- ready discussed were two fragments of a name-stone of H a t ~ h e p s u t ~ ~ j picked up by Lansing in November 1917 in the vil- lage area to the n-est of the North Pa1ace here can be little doubt that the stone

came originally from the temple of Hat- shepsut and Thutmose I11 at Medinet Habu where numerous examples of the same type have been found4 and that it had wandered thence into the palace area at a relatively recent date

Mixed in with the fragments of in-scribed jars from the Palace of the King were two potsherds with portions of Eighteenth Dynasty hieratic copies of two famous literary texts the Instruction of hmenemhet I (Fig 39 4)495 and a n-ell-

4 0 2 Thanks u e may suppose to the channel con- necting the Uirket Habri with the Nile (see Engelbach and 12facaldin B u l l rle I I n s t rlampgple XS52)

4 9 3 See the second column of the table of Fig 16 above

4 0 1 See De Brick On the 3Ieaning of the Name fPpj Orzentalza S e e r l a n d z c a 1049 pp 1-22

6 Ou stones of this type see my O s t r a k a a n d Tame- S t o n r s pp 45-46

4 9 6 See eg Holscher E r c a c a t i o n o M e d i n e t I I a b u 1132 Figs 27 28

0 Small portions of the begitlr~irlg of the text (Pap Sallier 11 1-2) are preserved

242 JOURNAL S~UDIESOF NEAREASTERK

known model letter of the earlier Middle Iiingdom (Fig 39 5)498

MTith the exception of some pieces of in- scribed alabaster vases from the store- rooms of the Temple of Amdn499 of xvhich unhappily I can find no copies or photo- graphs this completes the corpus of Eighteenth Dynasty inscriptions recov-erecl from the palace by the Metropolitan 3luseums espedibion A few Late Dynas- tic burials with inscribed coffins some Demotic ostraka and half a dozen in- scribed amphorae of the Greco-Roman Period were also found but these have no bearing on the history of the Malkata as

a royal residence-a history which seems to have ended abruptly vith the rise of the Nineteenth Dynasty

Exclusive of Amenhotep I11 himself thirteen royal persons are mentioned on inscribed objects found within the con- fines of the Malkata palace Though the names of some of these persons appear on objects or in contests of no particular his- torical significance it seems desirable nevertheless to list them all in chronologi- cal order accompanied by indications of the types and quantities of the inscrip- tions in which they occur

Hatshepsut I name-stone probably from rtledinet Habu Thutmose 111 4 document-sealings (Types S 1 2 Fig 31) 4

scarabs (Types R 24-27 Fig 34) Amenliotep 11 2 document-sealings (Type S 3 Fig 31) Tllutnlose I V 9 jar-labels (Types 31 32 45 Figs 5 t i ) 2 docu-

ment-sealings (Types S 4 5 Fig 31) Queen JIute~nuya I jar-label (Type 64 Fig 7) Queer1 Tiy I jar-label (Type 98 Fig 8) numerous brick

stimys (Types 111 IT Fig 30) 32 ring bezels (Types R 12-16 Fig 34) 2 scarabs (p 233 and n 419) 1 kohl-tube and 2 rase fragment^ (Fig 35 d q r)

Tlic Kings (Great) Wife (=T iy ) 26 jar-labels (Types 7 18 94 129 147 172 207 Figs 4 8 10 11 1314) 1jar-sealing (Tgt-pe 0 Fig 26)

Queen Sitarniln 51 jar-labels (Types 94-97 112 113 137 139 Figs8911) 2 ring bezels (Type R 17 Fig 34)

Princess Henettoneb Rlentioned on a sandstone stela (Figs 37 bot-tom 39 3)

Irince Arnenhotep (=Amenliotep IV ) 1 jar-sealing (Type KK Fig 27) ilmenhotep IV (ilkhenaten) 3 document-sealings (Types S 97 120 124 Fig

33) 1 ring bezel (Type H 18 Fig 34) Smenklikar 2 ring bezels (Types R 19 20 Fig 34) Tutcankhnmtin I ring bezel (Type R 21 Fig 34) (JueenAnkhesenamOn (CZrlkhesenpatten) 1 document-sealing (Type P 125 Fig 33) 1 ring

bezel (Type R 22 Fig 34) Horelnlieb 1 fragment of sandstone doorjamb (Fig 37 1q1-

per right)

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Iluriecl a t Thehes and may have lived there for a few months preceding his death414 I t is not unlikely that Tut-cankhamfin occupied the Malkata palace upon his return to Thebes though the evidence for this is admittedly slight The name of his wife appears zs we have seen on two small monuments from the palace on a ring-bezel (R 22) in its earlier form ~Ankhesenpaaten and on a document sealing (S 125) as cAnkhesenamfin The latter name -as adopted by the young queen follo~ving her husbands reversion to the worship of Bmnn an event which apparently took place sometime after the return of the royal couple to Thebesj

With the exceptions of R 4 and R 7 all the ring-bezels from the palace of Amen- hotep I11 are duplicated or closely paral- leled hy example found at Tell el Amarna 41G

V1 SCARABS COTILOIDS PLAQUES

AM17LETSA S D MOLDS

The lower half of Figure 34 (R 23-44) reproduces the inscriptions on forty-one assorted seals amulets and molds found for the most part in or near the Palace of the King either by Tytus in 1902i or by mTinlock in 1910-11~5It 37 and 38 are from the southern rubbish mounds anti R 25 42 and 43 form part of a string of amulets discovered in the complex of 1)uiltiings east of the Palace of the King Lansings field notes for the season of 1917--18 record the finding of two ex-amples of R 31 and a steatite scarah of Queen Tiy419 in the Village Area n-est of the Sor th Palace

The scarabs (R 24-28 31 32 35-39) are of blue or green glazed steatite or

6 Engelbach -4 n n Serc S L 135 137-39 148 f f Pendlebury Te l l el-4 m a r n a pp 9 28

Engelbach op c i t pp 160 f f

ltImarna PI S I T - 10-19 21 22 24 50-55 PlX90)1 91-101 103 110

$ 5 See above n 3 IhSee above 11 1

more rarely of blue faience (R 24 and 3 ex- amples of R 28) the cowroids (R 29) of blue faience the plaques of blue faience (R 33 [l example] 41) yellow faience (R 23) green glazed steatite (R 33 14 ex- amples]) or green paste (R 40) the frog- amulets (I330 34) of blue faience the fish-amulets (R 42 43)4n of blue or green glazed steatite and the molds (R 44) of hard fine-grained reddish-brorr-n pot-tery 42

There are six examples of R 28 five ex- amples of R 33 four examples each of R 31 and R 44 three examples of R 29 two examples each of R 30 34 and 36 and one example of each of the other types The pieces from Tytus n-ork (R 23 26 27 39 40 one example of R 28 and three examples of R 44) are now in the Brooklyn 1 Iu~eum~~ The rest are in the iLletropolitan rIuseum of Art424

Duplicates or close parallels to R 24-42 I ill he found in I-Ialls Catalogue o j hgyp-tian Y r a r ~ b s ~ ~ ~ in S e n berrys Scarabs4

fl 18X 13x 09 cm Similar to Kewberry Scarab-shaped S e a l s S o 36234 and Hall o p c i t Kos 1929-30 According to Chron d 2 E g VII 123 there is in the Kcstner JIuseum in Hanover UII petit scarabolde de Taya provenant du palais dAlnAno- phis 111

See Reisner i lmu l t t s Nos 12451-86 Pis XSIII-AKXIV Petrie A m u l c t s No 18 PI 11

47 See Reisner o p cit Sos 12488-90 PI S A Y I T Lanzone Diz ionar io p 50 No 12

2 See d m a r n o p 28 The molds with the impres- sion of Type R 44 are roughly rectangular lumps of pottery averaging 34 cm in length 25 cm in u-idth and 12 cm in tllickness I n addition to these there are two molds (XIJIA Acc 11215699 700) for producing falence ornaments in the form of a hunch of grapes ( i l m a r n a PI XI-Y) with the prerlolnerl- cartouche of Ameuhotep I11 (SebmaCr6) vertical in the center of the drsign ( ley I n s c h r B e r l i n 11 261 No 9473) Thegt- were found in 1911 near the Palace of the King

a 3 Accession iYos 486622 23 and unaccessioned

4 4 Accession Nos 112152-9 18-22 29 37 38 52 54 55 207 216 12180384 and unaccessioned

2 i Y ~ ~ 611-29 (R 24) 851-53 (R 25) 1003 (R 26) 1754-59 (R 29) 1760 (R 30) 1753 2852 (R 31 32) 1761 (R34) 1796 1797 (R351 1787-90 (R 361 1814 (R 371 1149 iR 38) 1623 (R 39) 637 638 (R 42)

2 Pls X X l S 41 iR 24) S X S 2 (R 38) 26 iR 291 27 (R 28) 39 (R 36) 30 ( H 37)

a Scnmb-shaped Seals4 and in Petries Flistorical qcarab~~~ and Scarabs and Cyl-i n d e r ~ ~ ~From the parallels occurring in these publications it would appear that R 39 is to be read Sebma~rEc Idion of Rulers (nz3i hamp[w]) 430 The roughly cut legend of the fish-amulet R 43 is pre- sumably the name of a divinity-possibly that of the Syrian god Resheph (Rsptn) The inscription of the molds R 44 ((Neb- maCrFl Lord of Secl-festivaljs] may be compared with those of the document- sealingsof Figures 31 and 32 (S 24-2759) The little cartouche-shaped plaque-pen- dant R 23 contains the first part of the (didactic name of the god Aten in its earlier form (RP lives Harakhte who rejoices [on the Horizon])432 and is paral- leled I)y numerolls examples found at Tell el 14marna433

Little of historical value is to be de- rived from these small monuments The hcaarahs of Thutmose I11 may have been niade in the reign of Amenhotep I11 (see ZAS S L I 70) or may have been heir- looms inherited by inmates of the palace from their grandparents or great-grand- parents B y themselves they are certainly not evidence that the palace area was ever occupied bp Thutmose I11 or his contemporaries The molds of Type I1 44

lsquobias 36106 (R 24) 36209 36220 36222 iR 31 32 36211 36224 36225 (R 28) 36685 ff (R 42)

4laN0S 1171 (R 29) 1179 (R 301 1183 (R 31-33) 11x5 (R 28) 1239 (R 37) 1241 (R 38) 1245-47 (R 36) 1255 (R 39) 1275 (R 42) 1283-84 (R 33)

4 2 9 PIS XXVI 8 9 R 24) XXVII 49 (R 26) SXVIII 7 6 8 0 (R 24) XSXIII 48-51 (R 28) 58 (R 39) 60 (R 36) X S X I V 75-82 (R 30) 88 89 91 (R 29) SXXV 126 (R 33) 139 (R 41) See also h a h u n Gurob and FIavara PI 99111 1 10 11 12 I111 I l i a h u n R a h u n an11 Guroh Pl XXIII 9 15 17 19

f loSee Varllle Bull I n s t fr Cazre XXSV 167 n 3 IIzcronl Text Brzt Afur -I11 (rd Edwards) 14 PI 91 Ff the pt xonal name mi-n-hamp3io (Ranhe P r r s o n ~ n n a m r n I 144 7)

rsi For the wr~ting of the name see a b o ~ e p 158 arid n 280

Srthe Yachr Goitznurn 1921 p 113 Gunn J E I I S 168-76 esp p 173

3 3 3 l m a l n a PI X l V 65 ff

were probably used on the occasion of one of Amenhotep 111s Sed-festivals to pro- duce small faience plaques commemorat- ing the event The plaque with the name of the god Aten (R 23) tends to support the evidence already adduced that the palace was a t one time occupied by an Atenist pharaoh or his follo~vers

VII INSCRIBED FA~ENCEVASES KOIIL-

TUBES AND OIHEH SMALL OBJECTS

Winlocks excavations of 1910-12 in the Palace of the King and the buildings to the east ancl west of it yielded the frag- ments of a quantity of small objects chiefly of faience which are perhaps more interesting for their variety than for the inscriptions which they bear Most of these are in the Metropolitan AIuseum and are illustrated in Figure 35434 Their dimensions may be determined from the centimeter scale a t the bottom of the il- lustration

Fragments (a) (Fig 34 scale 12) arid (b) are sections of model throw-sticks of blue faience a type of amulet well known from tombs and temples of the Eighteenth Dynasty433 but rarely found in the drvell- ings of the living436 Both pieces are in- scribed in black with portions of the nomen-cartouche of Amenhotep I11 (Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes) in one case (a) surmounting a m - s y m b o l and accompanied by the wampf-eye above

4 3 4 LIMA Acc Nos 11215371 495 503 504 508 509 510 511 512 518 519 520 530 717 12180372 and373 = F i g 3 5 f ~ k i d ~ 6 n g r p o h i 1 arid q respectively The fragmentary falence jar-lid i m ) from Tytns work is among the unaccessioried material in the Brooklyn IIuseum Cf 4marna PI SIII 13-21

4 3 5 Daressy Pouilles de la I-allbe drv Rois 9 0 s 24337-47 Carter and New-berry T h e Tonbh of Thotrt- mss i s I T Nos 46404-18 Daressy in Davis T h e T o m b o f Queen Ttyi pp 38-39 P1 V 2 3 4 Petrie Re-sparches i n S i n a i pp 144-45

436 No examples in falence seem to be recorded from the town sites at Gurob and Deir el Sfedineh and a fine specimen from Amarna (British SIlrsenm 34213 [Guide to the Fourth P i f t h and S i z t h E g y p t i a n Ilooms pp 144--451) may well be from a tomb or temple

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R 3 R 5

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FIG 35-Inscribed small objects from the Palace of Amenhotep I11

FIG 36-Statue and door-frame fragments from the Temple of Amtin in the Palace of Amen- hotep 111

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FIG 37-Insrribed fragir~ents of plaster and sandstone from the Palace of ~menhott~) 111

FIG 38 -Offering tables

H A N D - C O P I E S A N D O S T R A K A

three n f r - ~ i g n s ~ ~ ~ in the other (b) fol- lowed by the epithet [beloved of] Amen- It Lord of Heaven

The prenomen of Amenhotep 111 (Kebmac[rEc]) appears in the openwork design of a handsome but unfortunately fragmentary bracelet of bright-blue fai- ence (r)

The lo]-er part of a kohl-tube of yellow faience with the inscriptions encrusted in deep-purplish-blue glaze (d) bears the cartouche of Queen Tiy and the wish -lay she live Fragments of t xo similar tubes in white faience (j)and pale-green faience ( k ) were inscribed also in dark blue n-ith the titles and name of the king The Good God Lord of the Two Lands NebmacrEc [given] life43a

-4 white faience lotus-petal pendant (f)439 is tipped with a blob of yellow glaze and adorned in dark-blue glaze with the prenomen-cartouche of Amenhotep I11 surmountetl by the solar disk (red) and double plume Part of the same cartouche without the plumes appears in dark blue on a fragment of a molded lotus-flower ornament of pale green and white fay- ence ( h ) 440

The most interesting of the vase frag- ments is a small piece from the side of a blue fafence goblet (g) engraved on the exterior with part of a Scd-festival scene441 At the right the king appears heated in a pavillion wearing the Crown of Lon-er Egypt and holding in his hands the crook and flail At the left above

4 1 r Cf Hall op c i t No 2880 Daressy Fouil lrs No 24298 4 Petrie S i x T p n ~ p l e s P1 V 11 The ud3t-eye alone appears on most of the examples cited above in n 435 The design shown in Fig 34 is repeated on the other side of the throw-stick in this case however w-ith the throne-name of the king (NebmacrGc) The fragment was found by Lansing during the season of 1917-18 in a house south of the Temple of Aman

4 3 8 A third example in green faience (MMA Acc No 11215493) preserves a minute portion of the same inscription

4 3 9 Cf A n ~ a r n a P1 XX Citw I I P1 XXSVI 1 2

4 4 0 Cf i n ~ a r n o P1 XIX C i t y 1 1 P1 XXXVI 1 2

an arm holding the symbol of (many years and having suspended from it one or more related symbols can be made out the lower part of the cnrtouche with the name ([Amen]hotep Ruler of Thebes

A fragmentary vase of white faience (e) and another of yellow faience (not

both decorated and inscribed in dark blue preserve on their sides parts of a rectangular panel with the names and titles of the king The Good God Neb- macrF the Son of RElt Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given [life] forever and por- tions of the kings cartouches appear on fragments of three blue faience dishes -(1 0 and p) and on a segment of a white faience jar-lid (m)Pieces of a jar of blue faience (y) and a saucer of gray fai-ence (r)444 carry the cartouche of Queen Tiy in the first instance accompanying that of the king A small globular vase of pale-green paste represented by the frag- ment (11)) had around its middle an in- cised band of hieroglyphs of which there remain only the words stability well-being and jo[y] -obviously from a long royal titulary In addition there are fragments of two little vases of purple and turquoise-blue n-ith engraved panels of inscription similar to that of the faience vase ( e )

The remaining item shown in Figure 35 (i) is a thin strip of ebony inlay prob- ably from a box or a piece of furniture I ts incised inscription once filled with yellow paint comprises the nbty-name of

4 4 1 I have found no exact parallel to the composi- tion seen here but the elements occur in numerorls representations of this stage of the Sed-festival eg Gayet Temple de Louror P1 LXXI Big 177 ( = L U 111 P1 74 d l Winlock J E B IV P1 IV Chevrier A n n Ser t XLVII 170 P1 XXVI Bisson do la Roque Fouil les I n s t f r Ca i re VIII P1 VII I See also Frankfort K i n g s h i p and the Gods chap vi

4 4 31x1-4 BCc NO11215494 d 4 3 Dark-blue faIence with light-blue lueroglyphs 4 4 4 The inscription of ( q ) is dark blue that of ( r ) is

white 4 d j AIJIA Acc Xos 11215505 and 507

Amenhotep I11 (the T~vo-Goddesses Establisher-of-Laws- (and-)Pacifier-of-the- T ~ v o - L a n d s ) ~ ~ ~followed by the title the Good God which normally precedes the throne-name of the king

VIII MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION8

Probably never very numerous the in- scriptions of this class which have been re- covered from the scanty and thoroughly plundered ruins of the palace buildings are few in number and for the most part ex- tremely fragmentary The majority of them come from the Temple of Amfin which though built of brick like the rest of the palace was provided with inscribed doorframes offering tables stelae and statues of stone and included several rooms the I-alls of which Tvere adorned with moldings ornamental patterns and inscriptions of gilded ~vood and plaster inlaid with blue faience tiles

Since all but one of the pieces of stone plaster and tilework bearing these in-scriptions were reburied at Thehes before the conclusion of the 31useum1s escava- tions in 1920 our knowledge of them is derived almost entirely from photographs sketches hand copies and notes made in the field by Winlock White and Lansing and it is these records now in New York which have provided the illustrations of Figures 36-39 and which form the basis of the discussion to follo~v Sever for ex- ample having seen the fragments of in- scribed offering tables from the palaces rlemple of Amiin I have in Figure 38 simply reprduced a photograph of Lan- sings original pencil sketches of these fragments rearranged and relabeled but otherwise untouched

In the Palace of the King the painted plaster ceiling of the pharaohs bedcham- her had heen decorated down its middle with a succession of great spread vul- t u r e ~ ~ ~ under the wings of each of which

4 4 6 Gauthier 1irre d e ro i i 11 306 ff

were painted in large detailed hieroglyphs the titles and names of Amenhotep 111 Enough fragments of fallen plaster were foundon the floor of the ruined chamber to restore one pair of the inscriptions and a hand copy of these (taken from Win- locks notes for February 1 1911) is given at the top of Figure 39 (1)On the right under the left wing of the vulture one read The Good God Lord of the TWO Lands Nebmacrec Chosen of Rec given life and on the left separated from the foregoing by the legs and tail of the bird The Son of Re Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given life The nomen-cartouche in the latter inscription had been painted over with ~vhitewash-evidently by fol-

lowers of the Aten desirous of obliterating the name of Amiin wherever it occurred448 These appear to have been the only monu- mental inscriptions found by the Muse- ums expedition anywhere in the palace area outside of the inclosure of the Temple of A m i ~ n ~ ~ ~

One of the most interesting pieces of stone discovered in the temple was part of the tip of the plumed headdress of a colossal statue of the god Amfin in dark- gray porphyritic d i ~ r i t e ~ ~ (Fig 36 top) The width of the remaining plume (23 cm) compared with the correspond- ing measurement on the well-known group of- Amiin and Tutcankhamiin in the Louvre451 indicates that the Xllalkata

44 Winlock Bull MMA 1912 p 186 See also Tytus P r e l i m i n a r R e p o r t pp 18 20 and cf Capart L S r t amp g y p t i e n I PI 147 Prisse dnvennes IIilttuirc iie l ar t i g y p t i e n ttins I trchitecture PI [I

4 s Cf Tytus o p r i t p 10

4 9 See however i b id pp 10 25

450 A stone often and (I am told) incorrectly tle- scribed as black granite The fragment which is 46 cm in height and 30 cm in width was found by Lansing during the season of 1916-17 near the cen- tral portion of the temple proper Pieces of probably the same statue (described as unimportant frag-ments of a black granite statue) were found by White during the preceding season in the same general locality

4 5 1 Benedite M o n u m e n t s P io t S S I V 47-68 See also E n c y r l o p P d i e p h o t o g r a p h i y u r d e l a r t 1 L e ~ l l u s i e d u L o u v r e pp 78-79

statue when complete n-as 440 meters or ahout fourteen ant1 a half feet in height A s in the Louvre group the got1 as pro)- ably represented seated on a throne Ivith perhaps a smaller figure of the king stand- ing or kneeling before him452 Admirably carved and beautifully finished the statue may have been the temples principal cult image though its huge size tends to mili- tate against this-53 I ts back pilaster car- ried three vertical coliimns of incised hieroglyphic inscriptions of which are pre-

served the groups [Q] 1

r r-hat the tops of the sec-

ond and third columns respectively (Fig 36 upper right)

A fragment of sandstone door-lintel (Fig 36 lower left) found lying on the sur- face of the ground inside the temple in- losu sure^^^ was photographed by Evelyn FThite during the season of 1914-15 The piece measures 70 cm in length and 83 cm in height the lintel having been originally about 107 cm high-a sizable block of stone Its decoration lightly incised anti somewhat carelessly executed was whol- ly conventional a winged suns disk and helon- it two horizontal lines of inscrip tion with the titles and names of Amen- hotep III05 The kings prenomen [Neb]- ma [re ] with the epithet Heir of Re ( i l l s - f R-) included in the cartouche is fairly c ~ m m o n ~ occurring for example on a piece of re-used() sandstone relief found in the temple of Eye and IIorem- heb14j7which lies about a kilometer to the north of the palace area The tops of the

signs 18 a t its extreme left end are all

3 See Varille K a r n a k I 8-9 PI X V 4 5 3 See Holscher hxcavatzon o l f e d z n ~ f Hahu

IIT 26 154 White Bul l f~f-l1915 p 256 Lansing Bull

1fMd Alarch 1918 Supp lement p 8 4 2 5 Cf Varille K a r n a k I PI XII 17 456 Gauthier Lzvre des roiu 11 316 X X I X 317

SSS318 X S X I V 4 5 7 Hiilscher Excanalion o Medinet Habu 11 101

PI 43 n

that remain of the second line of inscrip- tion

A pair of fragmentary sandst onc tloor- jaml)s (Fig 36 lower right) though similar in style are smaller in scale than the lintel measuring only 20 cm in width the right jamb being preserved to a height of 70 cm They are from Lansings excavations of 1916-17 in the templearea Each evidently bore one of the names of Amenhotep 111 f ollo~r-ed by the expressions beloved of such-and-such a divinity and given life like RP forever Flre may guess that on the left jamb the deity referred to was Amen-Re [Lord of] Heaven and what remains of the signs a t the top of the frag- ment of the right jamb suggests the name of the goddess Shesmet (Ssmtt)45~luch more interesting than the principal in-scriptions are the tu-o small lines of text written near the bottom of the right jamb and given in hand copy in Figure 39 2 These inform us that the doorway or the structure to which it belonged was made under the direction of the Treasurer of the King of Lower Egypt the StolistGq of 3Iin-Amfin the Fourth Prophet of Amiin Simtit the justified

A prominent member of the hierarchy of hmiin Simiit is named as Fourth Prophet of the god in a statue inscription in Brussels together n-ith his three superi- ors the First Prophet Bleryptah the Second Prophet (and brother-in-law of the king) ltAnen and the Third Prophet Amenemhet460 Since the inscription re-ferred to is dated to Year 20 of Amenho- tep I11 and the chapel of Amiin in the Jfalkata palace was probably built for the celebration of the kings second Sed-

0 W b IT538 Budge Dic t ionary p 753 Gard O n 11 125

4 5 9 S m See Grdseloff A n n Serl XLITI 357 f f The title Stolist of AIin-ArnGn was borne in the Nineteenth Dynasty by IEhaCeniwast a so11 of the High Priest of B m h Wepwawetnlose (Lefebvre Histoire des yrands pramptres c l i ln~o7t p 240)

460 Capart and Spiegelberg -4 n 71 Sac A r eh d e Brurel les XVI 167 Fig 2

festival in Year 34461 it mould appear that Simtit held the rank of Fourth Prophet for about fourteen years462 Before the end of his career he was elevated to the grade of Second Prophet of Amiin and is so re- ferred to on toTo statues3 and two shawnbty-figure~~~4in the Cairo Museum He appears in the reliefs of the temple at Soleb participating in the celebration of Amenhotep 111s first Heb-~ed~ and lvas the owner of a decorated tomb on the Dira abul Naga at ThebesG6 On one of his statues in Cairo467 he bears the title First Kings Son of Amiin and the presence of his name on a doorway of one of the kings temples suggests that like ane en he -as related to Amenh~t~ep I11 either by blood or by marriage The fact that he was evi- dently in charge of what during the reign of Amenhotep I11 must have been the fourth most important of tmhe Theban temples of Amtin further suggests that there oras some sort of nominal division of responsibility between the four prophets of the god-the High Priest presiding at Karnak and delegating the immediate supervision of the Luxor temple the kings mortuary temple and the Malkata

401 See above p 85

402 Possibly less Sirniit may have received his ap- pointment as Fourth Prophet in Year 20 itself and the Malkata temple may have been built and inscribed a year or two before the celebration of the second Heb-sed During the reigns of Sethy I and Ramesses 11 Bakenkhonsu who eventually became High Priest of Amfin served twelve years as a Father of the God flf- teen years as Third Prophet and twelve years as Sec- ond Prophet (Lefebvre Hzstozre des g r a n d s p r l t r r s p 128)

463 Borchardt S t a t u e n t l nd S ta tue t t en 111161 Ko 932 IV 60 IGo 1107

4 6 4 Mariette Cat yl n des m o n u m e n t s d d b y d o s Nos 389 and 3 9 0 incorrectly dated by SIariette (and Lefebvre o p czt p 24 K O 1) to the late Middle K~ngdom The two Simiits listed by Lefebvre ( l ac czt IGos 1 and 9) are clearly one and the same man

465 Lepsius D e n k m u l e r 111PI 84 b

468 Porter-Sfoss T o p B i b l I 187 1 Varille A n n Seru S L 642 n 3

4 6 7 No 1107 See above n 483

temple to the Second Third and Fourth Prophets respectively

Similt may also have been the o-ner of a rough little sandstone stela a few bat- tered fragments of 11-hich mere recovered by Lansing from the ruins of the temple proper and are shown in the photograph at the bottom of Figure 37 A rectangular slab something over 45 cm in thickness the stela Ivas once painted white with blue hieroglyphs and red dividing lines the latter spaced on the average 3 em apart Preserved are parts of a seven-line inscription surmounting an incised design of indeterminate nature and comprising portions of the autobiography of a priest or temple official of Amtin With the aid of Lansings hand copy a revised version of which is given in Figure 39 (3) we can make out the following phrases

(1) the Prince of Princes468 [intro]ducetl me into the House of Amfin

(2) for his469 son Nehmacrei who be- longs to

(3) - V amp [ ~ ] W ( )a long lifetime as king living

(4) life() great of victories ( 5 ) Went [dou~n] the Kings [Daughter]

HenettonehQ in front of (6) great of hirn who causes rnonu-

ment which is (7) in the place the gods words which

he recited Mention has already been made of the

tile and gilded plaster decoration of a row

6 Probably Amenhotep 111 (see Varille A n n Sera XXXIII 93-94 XXXIV 13-16 Capart C h r o n d Eq X 322-24 Gauthier Liare des ro i s 11 315 XXV 316 XXVIII) though the epithet F k l h g i w was current before his time being borne for example by Amenhotep I1on his great quartzite stela from Sakkiireh (1 34 Badaw-i A n n S e r e XLII 23 P1 I)

468 ilmiins There is however a bare possibility that the pronoun and the epithet Prince of Princes in the preceding line refer to Thutmose IV

4 7 0 Amenhotep 111ssecond eldest daughter and the senior princess following Sitamiins elevation to the status of queen See Gauthier o p ci t 11 341-42 Hayes Bull M M d 1948 pp 272 276-78

horizon4 M a y he he given4 life stability md well-being [forever]

Thc expression Offering-of-the-1lt001 (wdn 11 tp-ht) leaves little room for doubt that these small stone basins formed part of the furnishings of an elevated open-air sanctuary of the type dedicated to the worship of the sun-god (Rec of the Roof479 and known from texts of the Twentieth Dynasty and later times to have been called the House of RP of the Roof of the House of Amtin4xo Such a sanctuary existed in the great temple a t Karnak as early as the reign of Thut-mose III481and the presence of one in so small and unimportant a temple as that of the Llalkata palace indicates how prevalent shrines of this type must have been in the Amtin temples of the period

Since the function of our offering tables was presumably to receive libations and gifts of food presented to the sun-god it seems frivolous to suggest that they I-ould also have been useful for catching the fresh myrrh and fresh incense which Heaven in tn70 Eighteenth Dynasty in- scriptions is said to rain down upon the roofs of royal temples482

A glance a t the plan of the northern- most quarter of the palace published by

in 1918shows that the Temple

4 7 7 R-m](~c)[(n)RCwbnm iht ] Cf Aeg Inschr Brr- lin 11182No 7290 For Rec wenlightperhaps sub- stitute Aten (the disk of the sun not the god of Amarna) as in Berlin 7274 and 7271 (deg Inschr 11 154 and 105)

[I di] nb etc Cf Cairo 23040 23073 (Ka-mal op cit)

4 7 9 R tp-hl or R m tp-ht (Re in the Roof) a form of the god worshiped as early as the reigu of Kir~g Sahurec of the Fifth Dynasty and referred to in two places on the Palermo Stoue (verso 3 1 and 4 3 Schafer Ein Bruchstuck altagyptischer Annalen pp 36 and 39)

4 8 Pr-RC tp-ht Pr-Imn See the references giveu in (iard On 11 216 under -4 462 and in Kees Orirntalia XVIII 436-30

Icees op cit pp 427-42

48 Spiegelberg 24~LIII 99

fl Op cil p 9

of Amtin properly speaking occupied only the c+entral section of a long ljuiltiing cstcntling across the tcrracactl 11cst eritl of a vast ~valletl inclosure (see nlho Pig 1 above) The northern lying of this build- ing appears to have been given over to offices and magazines-probably for the contributions to the kings second Neb-scd -but the richly decorated rooms at its southern end were certainly intended for some less utilitarian purpose and its southeast corner was taken up by a luxuri- ously appointed dwelling house or small palace On the north sitie of the main in- closure are the remains of a large multi- piered huilding nhich is believed to have been the kings Srd-festival anti adjoining this on the west a succession of courts and smaller buildings To the south and east of the inclosure are the ruins of other structures including several large and handsome villas There is every probability that the inclosure once con-tained a big rectangular pool of r ~ - a t e r ~ ~ ~ fed perhaps from the principal palace lake the present-day Birket IIabu

Some distance south of the main city at Tell el hmarna there is a generally similar architectural layout consisting of two big rectangular inclosures lying side by side and containing in addition to pools villas magazines and other build- ings a small temple This temple was presumably dedicated to the Aten and the whole complex was called the m3rur or pleasure-precinct() of the Aten- usually referred to by modern ~vriters simply as ilIaru-hten486

Like Pr-hcy the name nhich he used

4 See above p 85

A usual feature of the larger ancient Egyptian courtyards and one which would explain the complete absence of building remains in the central portion of this inclosure

8 8 City I chap v Pls S X I X fl The riame XIarll- 4teuW and the word m3ria are discussed by Ciu11n 011 pp 133-58

the and its wine is (even) more plentifulm3 than for his principal palace a t A m a r ~ ~ a ~ ~ ~ term m3rw was probably derived by Akhenaten from some portion of his fathers palace at Thebes where how- ever the full name ~vould in all likelihood have been the m3rw of Amiin Granted that a part of the Theban palace was so named n-e can hardly doubt that the part in question was the isolated northern quarter with the temple and inclosure of Amiin

Fortunately there is inscriptional evi- dence to show that hmenhotep I11actual-ly did build a Maru-Amtin across the river from Luxor in the general locality -

occupied by the illalkata temple inclo- sure This evidence is found in lines 12-14 of the kings well-known granite stela in C a i r~ ~here following descriptions of the mortuary temple in western Thebes and the temple a t Luxor there appears the follo~i-ing account of a hitherto un-identified structure

Ariotller nlonulrie~it which His Majesty 111tde for his father Amfin making for him a

r r i l n i (gt-) as an offering to the god -I n

oppositeg Soutllern a place ofO ~ e t ~ ~ ~ arnusernent for my Father in his goodly festi- va l (~ ) In it I erected a great templeM1 (which is) like the Sun (Rc)when it appears in glory on the horizon and ~vhich is planted with all (kinds of) flowers Fair is the Primaeval Water (inla) which ii in its lake at every season4g2

8 See above pp 178 and 182

1x5 Ko 34025 See Lacau Stkles ilu Touuel E m p i r e 11 S V I The text as restored by Sethy I contains a t~rirnber of iniswritings which are emended by Spiegel- berg in R e c l r a a S X 4CL43 (see esp p 41 UII 5-9)

l a gHl-I lr -n before the face of facing-here I believe in the sense of directly across (the iVile) from Compare the common expression for west- err1 Thebes Bft-l~in b s Opposite-her-Lord ( I i7b 111 276 b)

The temple of Luxor On a map of Thebes a line drau-n from the sanctuary of the Lrixor temple a r ~ d projected westward a t right angles to the corirse of the river passes just to the north of the palace area

(I t -nr r t a stock expression uot really in- dicative of the actual size of the temple which irl this case happeus to have bee11 relatively small

(its) water-like the pouring forth of the Inun- dation (Hpy)a4 created by the Lord of Eter- nity Numerous are the possessions of the place The taxes of every country are received and plentiful tribute is brought before my Father being the presentations of all lands

Aside from the comments made in the footnotes there seems to be nothing which needs to be added to this description of what would appear to have been the northern quarter of the Malkata palace except to note that for an inscription of its type and period it is unusually accurate and complete

IX MISCELLANEOUS INSCRIPTIONS

Among the few inscribed objects found in the ruins of the palace which do not belong to one of the eight categories al- ready discussed were two fragments of a name-stone of H a t ~ h e p s u t ~ ~ j picked up by Lansing in November 1917 in the vil- lage area to the n-est of the North Pa1ace here can be little doubt that the stone

came originally from the temple of Hat- shepsut and Thutmose I11 at Medinet Habu where numerous examples of the same type have been found4 and that it had wandered thence into the palace area at a relatively recent date

Mixed in with the fragments of in-scribed jars from the Palace of the King were two potsherds with portions of Eighteenth Dynasty hieratic copies of two famous literary texts the Instruction of hmenemhet I (Fig 39 4)495 and a n-ell-

4 0 2 Thanks u e may suppose to the channel con- necting the Uirket Habri with the Nile (see Engelbach and 12facaldin B u l l rle I I n s t rlampgple XS52)

4 9 3 See the second column of the table of Fig 16 above

4 0 1 See De Brick On the 3Ieaning of the Name fPpj Orzentalza S e e r l a n d z c a 1049 pp 1-22

6 Ou stones of this type see my O s t r a k a a n d Tame- S t o n r s pp 45-46

4 9 6 See eg Holscher E r c a c a t i o n o M e d i n e t I I a b u 1132 Figs 27 28

0 Small portions of the begitlr~irlg of the text (Pap Sallier 11 1-2) are preserved

242 JOURNAL S~UDIESOF NEAREASTERK

known model letter of the earlier Middle Iiingdom (Fig 39 5)498

MTith the exception of some pieces of in- scribed alabaster vases from the store- rooms of the Temple of Amdn499 of xvhich unhappily I can find no copies or photo- graphs this completes the corpus of Eighteenth Dynasty inscriptions recov-erecl from the palace by the Metropolitan 3luseums espedibion A few Late Dynas- tic burials with inscribed coffins some Demotic ostraka and half a dozen in- scribed amphorae of the Greco-Roman Period were also found but these have no bearing on the history of the Malkata as

a royal residence-a history which seems to have ended abruptly vith the rise of the Nineteenth Dynasty

Exclusive of Amenhotep I11 himself thirteen royal persons are mentioned on inscribed objects found within the con- fines of the Malkata palace Though the names of some of these persons appear on objects or in contests of no particular his- torical significance it seems desirable nevertheless to list them all in chronologi- cal order accompanied by indications of the types and quantities of the inscrip- tions in which they occur

Hatshepsut I name-stone probably from rtledinet Habu Thutmose 111 4 document-sealings (Types S 1 2 Fig 31) 4

scarabs (Types R 24-27 Fig 34) Amenliotep 11 2 document-sealings (Type S 3 Fig 31) Tllutnlose I V 9 jar-labels (Types 31 32 45 Figs 5 t i ) 2 docu-

ment-sealings (Types S 4 5 Fig 31) Queen JIute~nuya I jar-label (Type 64 Fig 7) Queer1 Tiy I jar-label (Type 98 Fig 8) numerous brick

stimys (Types 111 IT Fig 30) 32 ring bezels (Types R 12-16 Fig 34) 2 scarabs (p 233 and n 419) 1 kohl-tube and 2 rase fragment^ (Fig 35 d q r)

Tlic Kings (Great) Wife (=T iy ) 26 jar-labels (Types 7 18 94 129 147 172 207 Figs 4 8 10 11 1314) 1jar-sealing (Tgt-pe 0 Fig 26)

Queen Sitarniln 51 jar-labels (Types 94-97 112 113 137 139 Figs8911) 2 ring bezels (Type R 17 Fig 34)

Princess Henettoneb Rlentioned on a sandstone stela (Figs 37 bot-tom 39 3)

Irince Arnenhotep (=Amenliotep IV ) 1 jar-sealing (Type KK Fig 27) ilmenhotep IV (ilkhenaten) 3 document-sealings (Types S 97 120 124 Fig

33) 1 ring bezel (Type H 18 Fig 34) Smenklikar 2 ring bezels (Types R 19 20 Fig 34) Tutcankhnmtin I ring bezel (Type R 21 Fig 34) (JueenAnkhesenamOn (CZrlkhesenpatten) 1 document-sealing (Type P 125 Fig 33) 1 ring

bezel (Type R 22 Fig 34) Horelnlieb 1 fragment of sandstone doorjamb (Fig 37 1q1-

per right)

METROPOLITAN OF ARTMUSEUM NEW YORE

4s Hayes JSES VII 1-10 (see P I I 11 I artd 3 ) 99 Lansirig o p ci t p 12 Pusener in v a n cle TValle L a T r a n s m i e s i o r ~ des f(+tes 1itttraires Egypt iens pp 41-50

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a Scnmb-shaped Seals4 and in Petries Flistorical qcarab~~~ and Scarabs and Cyl-i n d e r ~ ~ ~From the parallels occurring in these publications it would appear that R 39 is to be read Sebma~rEc Idion of Rulers (nz3i hamp[w]) 430 The roughly cut legend of the fish-amulet R 43 is pre- sumably the name of a divinity-possibly that of the Syrian god Resheph (Rsptn) The inscription of the molds R 44 ((Neb- maCrFl Lord of Secl-festivaljs] may be compared with those of the document- sealingsof Figures 31 and 32 (S 24-2759) The little cartouche-shaped plaque-pen- dant R 23 contains the first part of the (didactic name of the god Aten in its earlier form (RP lives Harakhte who rejoices [on the Horizon])432 and is paral- leled I)y numerolls examples found at Tell el 14marna433

Little of historical value is to be de- rived from these small monuments The hcaarahs of Thutmose I11 may have been niade in the reign of Amenhotep I11 (see ZAS S L I 70) or may have been heir- looms inherited by inmates of the palace from their grandparents or great-grand- parents B y themselves they are certainly not evidence that the palace area was ever occupied bp Thutmose I11 or his contemporaries The molds of Type I1 44

lsquobias 36106 (R 24) 36209 36220 36222 iR 31 32 36211 36224 36225 (R 28) 36685 ff (R 42)

4laN0S 1171 (R 29) 1179 (R 301 1183 (R 31-33) 11x5 (R 28) 1239 (R 37) 1241 (R 38) 1245-47 (R 36) 1255 (R 39) 1275 (R 42) 1283-84 (R 33)

4 2 9 PIS XXVI 8 9 R 24) XXVII 49 (R 26) SXVIII 7 6 8 0 (R 24) XSXIII 48-51 (R 28) 58 (R 39) 60 (R 36) X S X I V 75-82 (R 30) 88 89 91 (R 29) SXXV 126 (R 33) 139 (R 41) See also h a h u n Gurob and FIavara PI 99111 1 10 11 12 I111 I l i a h u n R a h u n an11 Guroh Pl XXIII 9 15 17 19

f loSee Varllle Bull I n s t fr Cazre XXSV 167 n 3 IIzcronl Text Brzt Afur -I11 (rd Edwards) 14 PI 91 Ff the pt xonal name mi-n-hamp3io (Ranhe P r r s o n ~ n n a m r n I 144 7)

rsi For the wr~ting of the name see a b o ~ e p 158 arid n 280

Srthe Yachr Goitznurn 1921 p 113 Gunn J E I I S 168-76 esp p 173

3 3 3 l m a l n a PI X l V 65 ff

were probably used on the occasion of one of Amenhotep 111s Sed-festivals to pro- duce small faience plaques commemorat- ing the event The plaque with the name of the god Aten (R 23) tends to support the evidence already adduced that the palace was a t one time occupied by an Atenist pharaoh or his follo~vers

VII INSCRIBED FA~ENCEVASES KOIIL-

TUBES AND OIHEH SMALL OBJECTS

Winlocks excavations of 1910-12 in the Palace of the King and the buildings to the east ancl west of it yielded the frag- ments of a quantity of small objects chiefly of faience which are perhaps more interesting for their variety than for the inscriptions which they bear Most of these are in the Metropolitan AIuseum and are illustrated in Figure 35434 Their dimensions may be determined from the centimeter scale a t the bottom of the il- lustration

Fragments (a) (Fig 34 scale 12) arid (b) are sections of model throw-sticks of blue faience a type of amulet well known from tombs and temples of the Eighteenth Dynasty433 but rarely found in the drvell- ings of the living436 Both pieces are in- scribed in black with portions of the nomen-cartouche of Amenhotep I11 (Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes) in one case (a) surmounting a m - s y m b o l and accompanied by the wampf-eye above

4 3 4 LIMA Acc Nos 11215371 495 503 504 508 509 510 511 512 518 519 520 530 717 12180372 and373 = F i g 3 5 f ~ k i d ~ 6 n g r p o h i 1 arid q respectively The fragmentary falence jar-lid i m ) from Tytns work is among the unaccessioried material in the Brooklyn IIuseum Cf 4marna PI SIII 13-21

4 3 5 Daressy Pouilles de la I-allbe drv Rois 9 0 s 24337-47 Carter and New-berry T h e Tonbh of Thotrt- mss i s I T Nos 46404-18 Daressy in Davis T h e T o m b o f Queen Ttyi pp 38-39 P1 V 2 3 4 Petrie Re-sparches i n S i n a i pp 144-45

436 No examples in falence seem to be recorded from the town sites at Gurob and Deir el Sfedineh and a fine specimen from Amarna (British SIlrsenm 34213 [Guide to the Fourth P i f t h and S i z t h E g y p t i a n Ilooms pp 144--451) may well be from a tomb or temple

R I NGS S C A R A B S E T C S C A L E II

R 3 R 5

R 6 R 6 R 7 R 9 R 10

mal t

FIG 35-Inscribed small objects from the Palace of Amenhotep I11

FIG 36-Statue and door-frame fragments from the Temple of Amtin in the Palace of Amen- hotep 111

I

FIG 37-Insrribed fragir~ents of plaster and sandstone from the Palace of ~menhott~) 111

FIG 38 -Offering tables

H A N D - C O P I E S A N D O S T R A K A

three n f r - ~ i g n s ~ ~ ~ in the other (b) fol- lowed by the epithet [beloved of] Amen- It Lord of Heaven

The prenomen of Amenhotep 111 (Kebmac[rEc]) appears in the openwork design of a handsome but unfortunately fragmentary bracelet of bright-blue fai- ence (r)

The lo]-er part of a kohl-tube of yellow faience with the inscriptions encrusted in deep-purplish-blue glaze (d) bears the cartouche of Queen Tiy and the wish -lay she live Fragments of t xo similar tubes in white faience (j)and pale-green faience ( k ) were inscribed also in dark blue n-ith the titles and name of the king The Good God Lord of the Two Lands NebmacrEc [given] life43a

-4 white faience lotus-petal pendant (f)439 is tipped with a blob of yellow glaze and adorned in dark-blue glaze with the prenomen-cartouche of Amenhotep I11 surmountetl by the solar disk (red) and double plume Part of the same cartouche without the plumes appears in dark blue on a fragment of a molded lotus-flower ornament of pale green and white fay- ence ( h ) 440

The most interesting of the vase frag- ments is a small piece from the side of a blue fafence goblet (g) engraved on the exterior with part of a Scd-festival scene441 At the right the king appears heated in a pavillion wearing the Crown of Lon-er Egypt and holding in his hands the crook and flail At the left above

4 1 r Cf Hall op c i t No 2880 Daressy Fouil lrs No 24298 4 Petrie S i x T p n ~ p l e s P1 V 11 The ud3t-eye alone appears on most of the examples cited above in n 435 The design shown in Fig 34 is repeated on the other side of the throw-stick in this case however w-ith the throne-name of the king (NebmacrGc) The fragment was found by Lansing during the season of 1917-18 in a house south of the Temple of Aman

4 3 8 A third example in green faience (MMA Acc No 11215493) preserves a minute portion of the same inscription

4 3 9 Cf A n ~ a r n a P1 XX Citw I I P1 XXSVI 1 2

4 4 0 Cf i n ~ a r n o P1 XIX C i t y 1 1 P1 XXXVI 1 2

an arm holding the symbol of (many years and having suspended from it one or more related symbols can be made out the lower part of the cnrtouche with the name ([Amen]hotep Ruler of Thebes

A fragmentary vase of white faience (e) and another of yellow faience (not

both decorated and inscribed in dark blue preserve on their sides parts of a rectangular panel with the names and titles of the king The Good God Neb- macrF the Son of RElt Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given [life] forever and por- tions of the kings cartouches appear on fragments of three blue faience dishes -(1 0 and p) and on a segment of a white faience jar-lid (m)Pieces of a jar of blue faience (y) and a saucer of gray fai-ence (r)444 carry the cartouche of Queen Tiy in the first instance accompanying that of the king A small globular vase of pale-green paste represented by the frag- ment (11)) had around its middle an in- cised band of hieroglyphs of which there remain only the words stability well-being and jo[y] -obviously from a long royal titulary In addition there are fragments of two little vases of purple and turquoise-blue n-ith engraved panels of inscription similar to that of the faience vase ( e )

The remaining item shown in Figure 35 (i) is a thin strip of ebony inlay prob- ably from a box or a piece of furniture I ts incised inscription once filled with yellow paint comprises the nbty-name of

4 4 1 I have found no exact parallel to the composi- tion seen here but the elements occur in numerorls representations of this stage of the Sed-festival eg Gayet Temple de Louror P1 LXXI Big 177 ( = L U 111 P1 74 d l Winlock J E B IV P1 IV Chevrier A n n Ser t XLVII 170 P1 XXVI Bisson do la Roque Fouil les I n s t f r Ca i re VIII P1 VII I See also Frankfort K i n g s h i p and the Gods chap vi

4 4 31x1-4 BCc NO11215494 d 4 3 Dark-blue faIence with light-blue lueroglyphs 4 4 4 The inscription of ( q ) is dark blue that of ( r ) is

white 4 d j AIJIA Acc Xos 11215505 and 507

Amenhotep I11 (the T~vo-Goddesses Establisher-of-Laws- (and-)Pacifier-of-the- T ~ v o - L a n d s ) ~ ~ ~followed by the title the Good God which normally precedes the throne-name of the king

VIII MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION8

Probably never very numerous the in- scriptions of this class which have been re- covered from the scanty and thoroughly plundered ruins of the palace buildings are few in number and for the most part ex- tremely fragmentary The majority of them come from the Temple of Amfin which though built of brick like the rest of the palace was provided with inscribed doorframes offering tables stelae and statues of stone and included several rooms the I-alls of which Tvere adorned with moldings ornamental patterns and inscriptions of gilded ~vood and plaster inlaid with blue faience tiles

Since all but one of the pieces of stone plaster and tilework bearing these in-scriptions were reburied at Thehes before the conclusion of the 31useum1s escava- tions in 1920 our knowledge of them is derived almost entirely from photographs sketches hand copies and notes made in the field by Winlock White and Lansing and it is these records now in New York which have provided the illustrations of Figures 36-39 and which form the basis of the discussion to follo~v Sever for ex- ample having seen the fragments of in- scribed offering tables from the palaces rlemple of Amiin I have in Figure 38 simply reprduced a photograph of Lan- sings original pencil sketches of these fragments rearranged and relabeled but otherwise untouched

In the Palace of the King the painted plaster ceiling of the pharaohs bedcham- her had heen decorated down its middle with a succession of great spread vul- t u r e ~ ~ ~ under the wings of each of which

4 4 6 Gauthier 1irre d e ro i i 11 306 ff

were painted in large detailed hieroglyphs the titles and names of Amenhotep 111 Enough fragments of fallen plaster were foundon the floor of the ruined chamber to restore one pair of the inscriptions and a hand copy of these (taken from Win- locks notes for February 1 1911) is given at the top of Figure 39 (1)On the right under the left wing of the vulture one read The Good God Lord of the TWO Lands Nebmacrec Chosen of Rec given life and on the left separated from the foregoing by the legs and tail of the bird The Son of Re Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given life The nomen-cartouche in the latter inscription had been painted over with ~vhitewash-evidently by fol-

lowers of the Aten desirous of obliterating the name of Amiin wherever it occurred448 These appear to have been the only monu- mental inscriptions found by the Muse- ums expedition anywhere in the palace area outside of the inclosure of the Temple of A m i ~ n ~ ~ ~

One of the most interesting pieces of stone discovered in the temple was part of the tip of the plumed headdress of a colossal statue of the god Amfin in dark- gray porphyritic d i ~ r i t e ~ ~ (Fig 36 top) The width of the remaining plume (23 cm) compared with the correspond- ing measurement on the well-known group of- Amiin and Tutcankhamiin in the Louvre451 indicates that the Xllalkata

44 Winlock Bull MMA 1912 p 186 See also Tytus P r e l i m i n a r R e p o r t pp 18 20 and cf Capart L S r t amp g y p t i e n I PI 147 Prisse dnvennes IIilttuirc iie l ar t i g y p t i e n ttins I trchitecture PI [I

4 s Cf Tytus o p r i t p 10

4 9 See however i b id pp 10 25

450 A stone often and (I am told) incorrectly tle- scribed as black granite The fragment which is 46 cm in height and 30 cm in width was found by Lansing during the season of 1916-17 near the cen- tral portion of the temple proper Pieces of probably the same statue (described as unimportant frag-ments of a black granite statue) were found by White during the preceding season in the same general locality

4 5 1 Benedite M o n u m e n t s P io t S S I V 47-68 See also E n c y r l o p P d i e p h o t o g r a p h i y u r d e l a r t 1 L e ~ l l u s i e d u L o u v r e pp 78-79

statue when complete n-as 440 meters or ahout fourteen ant1 a half feet in height A s in the Louvre group the got1 as pro)- ably represented seated on a throne Ivith perhaps a smaller figure of the king stand- ing or kneeling before him452 Admirably carved and beautifully finished the statue may have been the temples principal cult image though its huge size tends to mili- tate against this-53 I ts back pilaster car- ried three vertical coliimns of incised hieroglyphic inscriptions of which are pre-

served the groups [Q] 1

r r-hat the tops of the sec-

ond and third columns respectively (Fig 36 upper right)

A fragment of sandstone door-lintel (Fig 36 lower left) found lying on the sur- face of the ground inside the temple in- losu sure^^^ was photographed by Evelyn FThite during the season of 1914-15 The piece measures 70 cm in length and 83 cm in height the lintel having been originally about 107 cm high-a sizable block of stone Its decoration lightly incised anti somewhat carelessly executed was whol- ly conventional a winged suns disk and helon- it two horizontal lines of inscrip tion with the titles and names of Amen- hotep III05 The kings prenomen [Neb]- ma [re ] with the epithet Heir of Re ( i l l s - f R-) included in the cartouche is fairly c ~ m m o n ~ occurring for example on a piece of re-used() sandstone relief found in the temple of Eye and IIorem- heb14j7which lies about a kilometer to the north of the palace area The tops of the

signs 18 a t its extreme left end are all

3 See Varille K a r n a k I 8-9 PI X V 4 5 3 See Holscher hxcavatzon o l f e d z n ~ f Hahu

IIT 26 154 White Bul l f~f-l1915 p 256 Lansing Bull

1fMd Alarch 1918 Supp lement p 8 4 2 5 Cf Varille K a r n a k I PI XII 17 456 Gauthier Lzvre des roiu 11 316 X X I X 317

SSS318 X S X I V 4 5 7 Hiilscher Excanalion o Medinet Habu 11 101

PI 43 n

that remain of the second line of inscrip- tion

A pair of fragmentary sandst onc tloor- jaml)s (Fig 36 lower right) though similar in style are smaller in scale than the lintel measuring only 20 cm in width the right jamb being preserved to a height of 70 cm They are from Lansings excavations of 1916-17 in the templearea Each evidently bore one of the names of Amenhotep 111 f ollo~r-ed by the expressions beloved of such-and-such a divinity and given life like RP forever Flre may guess that on the left jamb the deity referred to was Amen-Re [Lord of] Heaven and what remains of the signs a t the top of the frag- ment of the right jamb suggests the name of the goddess Shesmet (Ssmtt)45~luch more interesting than the principal in-scriptions are the tu-o small lines of text written near the bottom of the right jamb and given in hand copy in Figure 39 2 These inform us that the doorway or the structure to which it belonged was made under the direction of the Treasurer of the King of Lower Egypt the StolistGq of 3Iin-Amfin the Fourth Prophet of Amiin Simtit the justified

A prominent member of the hierarchy of hmiin Simiit is named as Fourth Prophet of the god in a statue inscription in Brussels together n-ith his three superi- ors the First Prophet Bleryptah the Second Prophet (and brother-in-law of the king) ltAnen and the Third Prophet Amenemhet460 Since the inscription re-ferred to is dated to Year 20 of Amenho- tep I11 and the chapel of Amiin in the Jfalkata palace was probably built for the celebration of the kings second Sed-

0 W b IT538 Budge Dic t ionary p 753 Gard O n 11 125

4 5 9 S m See Grdseloff A n n Serl XLITI 357 f f The title Stolist of AIin-ArnGn was borne in the Nineteenth Dynasty by IEhaCeniwast a so11 of the High Priest of B m h Wepwawetnlose (Lefebvre Histoire des yrands pramptres c l i ln~o7t p 240)

460 Capart and Spiegelberg -4 n 71 Sac A r eh d e Brurel les XVI 167 Fig 2

festival in Year 34461 it mould appear that Simtit held the rank of Fourth Prophet for about fourteen years462 Before the end of his career he was elevated to the grade of Second Prophet of Amiin and is so re- ferred to on toTo statues3 and two shawnbty-figure~~~4in the Cairo Museum He appears in the reliefs of the temple at Soleb participating in the celebration of Amenhotep 111s first Heb-~ed~ and lvas the owner of a decorated tomb on the Dira abul Naga at ThebesG6 On one of his statues in Cairo467 he bears the title First Kings Son of Amiin and the presence of his name on a doorway of one of the kings temples suggests that like ane en he -as related to Amenh~t~ep I11 either by blood or by marriage The fact that he was evi- dently in charge of what during the reign of Amenhotep I11 must have been the fourth most important of tmhe Theban temples of Amtin further suggests that there oras some sort of nominal division of responsibility between the four prophets of the god-the High Priest presiding at Karnak and delegating the immediate supervision of the Luxor temple the kings mortuary temple and the Malkata

401 See above p 85

402 Possibly less Sirniit may have received his ap- pointment as Fourth Prophet in Year 20 itself and the Malkata temple may have been built and inscribed a year or two before the celebration of the second Heb-sed During the reigns of Sethy I and Ramesses 11 Bakenkhonsu who eventually became High Priest of Amfin served twelve years as a Father of the God flf- teen years as Third Prophet and twelve years as Sec- ond Prophet (Lefebvre Hzstozre des g r a n d s p r l t r r s p 128)

463 Borchardt S t a t u e n t l nd S ta tue t t en 111161 Ko 932 IV 60 IGo 1107

4 6 4 Mariette Cat yl n des m o n u m e n t s d d b y d o s Nos 389 and 3 9 0 incorrectly dated by SIariette (and Lefebvre o p czt p 24 K O 1) to the late Middle K~ngdom The two Simiits listed by Lefebvre ( l ac czt IGos 1 and 9) are clearly one and the same man

465 Lepsius D e n k m u l e r 111PI 84 b

468 Porter-Sfoss T o p B i b l I 187 1 Varille A n n Seru S L 642 n 3

4 6 7 No 1107 See above n 483

temple to the Second Third and Fourth Prophets respectively

Similt may also have been the o-ner of a rough little sandstone stela a few bat- tered fragments of 11-hich mere recovered by Lansing from the ruins of the temple proper and are shown in the photograph at the bottom of Figure 37 A rectangular slab something over 45 cm in thickness the stela Ivas once painted white with blue hieroglyphs and red dividing lines the latter spaced on the average 3 em apart Preserved are parts of a seven-line inscription surmounting an incised design of indeterminate nature and comprising portions of the autobiography of a priest or temple official of Amtin With the aid of Lansings hand copy a revised version of which is given in Figure 39 (3) we can make out the following phrases

(1) the Prince of Princes468 [intro]ducetl me into the House of Amfin

(2) for his469 son Nehmacrei who be- longs to

(3) - V amp [ ~ ] W ( )a long lifetime as king living

(4) life() great of victories ( 5 ) Went [dou~n] the Kings [Daughter]

HenettonehQ in front of (6) great of hirn who causes rnonu-

ment which is (7) in the place the gods words which

he recited Mention has already been made of the

tile and gilded plaster decoration of a row

6 Probably Amenhotep 111 (see Varille A n n Sera XXXIII 93-94 XXXIV 13-16 Capart C h r o n d Eq X 322-24 Gauthier Liare des ro i s 11 315 XXV 316 XXVIII) though the epithet F k l h g i w was current before his time being borne for example by Amenhotep I1on his great quartzite stela from Sakkiireh (1 34 Badaw-i A n n S e r e XLII 23 P1 I)

468 ilmiins There is however a bare possibility that the pronoun and the epithet Prince of Princes in the preceding line refer to Thutmose IV

4 7 0 Amenhotep 111ssecond eldest daughter and the senior princess following Sitamiins elevation to the status of queen See Gauthier o p ci t 11 341-42 Hayes Bull M M d 1948 pp 272 276-78

horizon4 M a y he he given4 life stability md well-being [forever]

Thc expression Offering-of-the-1lt001 (wdn 11 tp-ht) leaves little room for doubt that these small stone basins formed part of the furnishings of an elevated open-air sanctuary of the type dedicated to the worship of the sun-god (Rec of the Roof479 and known from texts of the Twentieth Dynasty and later times to have been called the House of RP of the Roof of the House of Amtin4xo Such a sanctuary existed in the great temple a t Karnak as early as the reign of Thut-mose III481and the presence of one in so small and unimportant a temple as that of the Llalkata palace indicates how prevalent shrines of this type must have been in the Amtin temples of the period

Since the function of our offering tables was presumably to receive libations and gifts of food presented to the sun-god it seems frivolous to suggest that they I-ould also have been useful for catching the fresh myrrh and fresh incense which Heaven in tn70 Eighteenth Dynasty in- scriptions is said to rain down upon the roofs of royal temples482

A glance a t the plan of the northern- most quarter of the palace published by

in 1918shows that the Temple

4 7 7 R-m](~c)[(n)RCwbnm iht ] Cf Aeg Inschr Brr- lin 11182No 7290 For Rec wenlightperhaps sub- stitute Aten (the disk of the sun not the god of Amarna) as in Berlin 7274 and 7271 (deg Inschr 11 154 and 105)

[I di] nb etc Cf Cairo 23040 23073 (Ka-mal op cit)

4 7 9 R tp-hl or R m tp-ht (Re in the Roof) a form of the god worshiped as early as the reigu of Kir~g Sahurec of the Fifth Dynasty and referred to in two places on the Palermo Stoue (verso 3 1 and 4 3 Schafer Ein Bruchstuck altagyptischer Annalen pp 36 and 39)

4 8 Pr-RC tp-ht Pr-Imn See the references giveu in (iard On 11 216 under -4 462 and in Kees Orirntalia XVIII 436-30

Icees op cit pp 427-42

48 Spiegelberg 24~LIII 99

fl Op cil p 9

of Amtin properly speaking occupied only the c+entral section of a long ljuiltiing cstcntling across the tcrracactl 11cst eritl of a vast ~valletl inclosure (see nlho Pig 1 above) The northern lying of this build- ing appears to have been given over to offices and magazines-probably for the contributions to the kings second Neb-scd -but the richly decorated rooms at its southern end were certainly intended for some less utilitarian purpose and its southeast corner was taken up by a luxuri- ously appointed dwelling house or small palace On the north sitie of the main in- closure are the remains of a large multi- piered huilding nhich is believed to have been the kings Srd-festival anti adjoining this on the west a succession of courts and smaller buildings To the south and east of the inclosure are the ruins of other structures including several large and handsome villas There is every probability that the inclosure once con-tained a big rectangular pool of r ~ - a t e r ~ ~ ~ fed perhaps from the principal palace lake the present-day Birket IIabu

Some distance south of the main city at Tell el hmarna there is a generally similar architectural layout consisting of two big rectangular inclosures lying side by side and containing in addition to pools villas magazines and other build- ings a small temple This temple was presumably dedicated to the Aten and the whole complex was called the m3rur or pleasure-precinct() of the Aten- usually referred to by modern ~vriters simply as ilIaru-hten486

Like Pr-hcy the name nhich he used

4 See above p 85

A usual feature of the larger ancient Egyptian courtyards and one which would explain the complete absence of building remains in the central portion of this inclosure

8 8 City I chap v Pls S X I X fl The riame XIarll- 4teuW and the word m3ria are discussed by Ciu11n 011 pp 133-58

the and its wine is (even) more plentifulm3 than for his principal palace a t A m a r ~ ~ a ~ ~ ~ term m3rw was probably derived by Akhenaten from some portion of his fathers palace at Thebes where how- ever the full name ~vould in all likelihood have been the m3rw of Amiin Granted that a part of the Theban palace was so named n-e can hardly doubt that the part in question was the isolated northern quarter with the temple and inclosure of Amiin

Fortunately there is inscriptional evi- dence to show that hmenhotep I11actual-ly did build a Maru-Amtin across the river from Luxor in the general locality -

occupied by the illalkata temple inclo- sure This evidence is found in lines 12-14 of the kings well-known granite stela in C a i r~ ~here following descriptions of the mortuary temple in western Thebes and the temple a t Luxor there appears the follo~i-ing account of a hitherto un-identified structure

Ariotller nlonulrie~it which His Majesty 111tde for his father Amfin making for him a

r r i l n i (gt-) as an offering to the god -I n

oppositeg Soutllern a place ofO ~ e t ~ ~ ~ arnusernent for my Father in his goodly festi- va l (~ ) In it I erected a great templeM1 (which is) like the Sun (Rc)when it appears in glory on the horizon and ~vhich is planted with all (kinds of) flowers Fair is the Primaeval Water (inla) which ii in its lake at every season4g2

8 See above pp 178 and 182

1x5 Ko 34025 See Lacau Stkles ilu Touuel E m p i r e 11 S V I The text as restored by Sethy I contains a t~rirnber of iniswritings which are emended by Spiegel- berg in R e c l r a a S X 4CL43 (see esp p 41 UII 5-9)

l a gHl-I lr -n before the face of facing-here I believe in the sense of directly across (the iVile) from Compare the common expression for west- err1 Thebes Bft-l~in b s Opposite-her-Lord ( I i7b 111 276 b)

The temple of Luxor On a map of Thebes a line drau-n from the sanctuary of the Lrixor temple a r ~ d projected westward a t right angles to the corirse of the river passes just to the north of the palace area

(I t -nr r t a stock expression uot really in- dicative of the actual size of the temple which irl this case happeus to have bee11 relatively small

(its) water-like the pouring forth of the Inun- dation (Hpy)a4 created by the Lord of Eter- nity Numerous are the possessions of the place The taxes of every country are received and plentiful tribute is brought before my Father being the presentations of all lands

Aside from the comments made in the footnotes there seems to be nothing which needs to be added to this description of what would appear to have been the northern quarter of the Malkata palace except to note that for an inscription of its type and period it is unusually accurate and complete

IX MISCELLANEOUS INSCRIPTIONS

Among the few inscribed objects found in the ruins of the palace which do not belong to one of the eight categories al- ready discussed were two fragments of a name-stone of H a t ~ h e p s u t ~ ~ j picked up by Lansing in November 1917 in the vil- lage area to the n-est of the North Pa1ace here can be little doubt that the stone

came originally from the temple of Hat- shepsut and Thutmose I11 at Medinet Habu where numerous examples of the same type have been found4 and that it had wandered thence into the palace area at a relatively recent date

Mixed in with the fragments of in-scribed jars from the Palace of the King were two potsherds with portions of Eighteenth Dynasty hieratic copies of two famous literary texts the Instruction of hmenemhet I (Fig 39 4)495 and a n-ell-

4 0 2 Thanks u e may suppose to the channel con- necting the Uirket Habri with the Nile (see Engelbach and 12facaldin B u l l rle I I n s t rlampgple XS52)

4 9 3 See the second column of the table of Fig 16 above

4 0 1 See De Brick On the 3Ieaning of the Name fPpj Orzentalza S e e r l a n d z c a 1049 pp 1-22

6 Ou stones of this type see my O s t r a k a a n d Tame- S t o n r s pp 45-46

4 9 6 See eg Holscher E r c a c a t i o n o M e d i n e t I I a b u 1132 Figs 27 28

0 Small portions of the begitlr~irlg of the text (Pap Sallier 11 1-2) are preserved

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known model letter of the earlier Middle Iiingdom (Fig 39 5)498

MTith the exception of some pieces of in- scribed alabaster vases from the store- rooms of the Temple of Amdn499 of xvhich unhappily I can find no copies or photo- graphs this completes the corpus of Eighteenth Dynasty inscriptions recov-erecl from the palace by the Metropolitan 3luseums espedibion A few Late Dynas- tic burials with inscribed coffins some Demotic ostraka and half a dozen in- scribed amphorae of the Greco-Roman Period were also found but these have no bearing on the history of the Malkata as

a royal residence-a history which seems to have ended abruptly vith the rise of the Nineteenth Dynasty

Exclusive of Amenhotep I11 himself thirteen royal persons are mentioned on inscribed objects found within the con- fines of the Malkata palace Though the names of some of these persons appear on objects or in contests of no particular his- torical significance it seems desirable nevertheless to list them all in chronologi- cal order accompanied by indications of the types and quantities of the inscrip- tions in which they occur

Hatshepsut I name-stone probably from rtledinet Habu Thutmose 111 4 document-sealings (Types S 1 2 Fig 31) 4

scarabs (Types R 24-27 Fig 34) Amenliotep 11 2 document-sealings (Type S 3 Fig 31) Tllutnlose I V 9 jar-labels (Types 31 32 45 Figs 5 t i ) 2 docu-

ment-sealings (Types S 4 5 Fig 31) Queen JIute~nuya I jar-label (Type 64 Fig 7) Queer1 Tiy I jar-label (Type 98 Fig 8) numerous brick

stimys (Types 111 IT Fig 30) 32 ring bezels (Types R 12-16 Fig 34) 2 scarabs (p 233 and n 419) 1 kohl-tube and 2 rase fragment^ (Fig 35 d q r)

Tlic Kings (Great) Wife (=T iy ) 26 jar-labels (Types 7 18 94 129 147 172 207 Figs 4 8 10 11 1314) 1jar-sealing (Tgt-pe 0 Fig 26)

Queen Sitarniln 51 jar-labels (Types 94-97 112 113 137 139 Figs8911) 2 ring bezels (Type R 17 Fig 34)

Princess Henettoneb Rlentioned on a sandstone stela (Figs 37 bot-tom 39 3)

Irince Arnenhotep (=Amenliotep IV ) 1 jar-sealing (Type KK Fig 27) ilmenhotep IV (ilkhenaten) 3 document-sealings (Types S 97 120 124 Fig

33) 1 ring bezel (Type H 18 Fig 34) Smenklikar 2 ring bezels (Types R 19 20 Fig 34) Tutcankhnmtin I ring bezel (Type R 21 Fig 34) (JueenAnkhesenamOn (CZrlkhesenpatten) 1 document-sealing (Type P 125 Fig 33) 1 ring

bezel (Type R 22 Fig 34) Horelnlieb 1 fragment of sandstone doorjamb (Fig 37 1q1-

per right)

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4s Hayes JSES VII 1-10 (see P I I 11 I artd 3 ) 99 Lansirig o p ci t p 12 Pusener in v a n cle TValle L a T r a n s m i e s i o r ~ des f(+tes 1itttraires Egypt iens pp 41-50

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FIG 35-Inscribed small objects from the Palace of Amenhotep I11

FIG 36-Statue and door-frame fragments from the Temple of Amtin in the Palace of Amen- hotep 111

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FIG 37-Insrribed fragir~ents of plaster and sandstone from the Palace of ~menhott~) 111

FIG 38 -Offering tables

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three n f r - ~ i g n s ~ ~ ~ in the other (b) fol- lowed by the epithet [beloved of] Amen- It Lord of Heaven

The prenomen of Amenhotep 111 (Kebmac[rEc]) appears in the openwork design of a handsome but unfortunately fragmentary bracelet of bright-blue fai- ence (r)

The lo]-er part of a kohl-tube of yellow faience with the inscriptions encrusted in deep-purplish-blue glaze (d) bears the cartouche of Queen Tiy and the wish -lay she live Fragments of t xo similar tubes in white faience (j)and pale-green faience ( k ) were inscribed also in dark blue n-ith the titles and name of the king The Good God Lord of the Two Lands NebmacrEc [given] life43a

-4 white faience lotus-petal pendant (f)439 is tipped with a blob of yellow glaze and adorned in dark-blue glaze with the prenomen-cartouche of Amenhotep I11 surmountetl by the solar disk (red) and double plume Part of the same cartouche without the plumes appears in dark blue on a fragment of a molded lotus-flower ornament of pale green and white fay- ence ( h ) 440

The most interesting of the vase frag- ments is a small piece from the side of a blue fafence goblet (g) engraved on the exterior with part of a Scd-festival scene441 At the right the king appears heated in a pavillion wearing the Crown of Lon-er Egypt and holding in his hands the crook and flail At the left above

4 1 r Cf Hall op c i t No 2880 Daressy Fouil lrs No 24298 4 Petrie S i x T p n ~ p l e s P1 V 11 The ud3t-eye alone appears on most of the examples cited above in n 435 The design shown in Fig 34 is repeated on the other side of the throw-stick in this case however w-ith the throne-name of the king (NebmacrGc) The fragment was found by Lansing during the season of 1917-18 in a house south of the Temple of Aman

4 3 8 A third example in green faience (MMA Acc No 11215493) preserves a minute portion of the same inscription

4 3 9 Cf A n ~ a r n a P1 XX Citw I I P1 XXSVI 1 2

4 4 0 Cf i n ~ a r n o P1 XIX C i t y 1 1 P1 XXXVI 1 2

an arm holding the symbol of (many years and having suspended from it one or more related symbols can be made out the lower part of the cnrtouche with the name ([Amen]hotep Ruler of Thebes

A fragmentary vase of white faience (e) and another of yellow faience (not

both decorated and inscribed in dark blue preserve on their sides parts of a rectangular panel with the names and titles of the king The Good God Neb- macrF the Son of RElt Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given [life] forever and por- tions of the kings cartouches appear on fragments of three blue faience dishes -(1 0 and p) and on a segment of a white faience jar-lid (m)Pieces of a jar of blue faience (y) and a saucer of gray fai-ence (r)444 carry the cartouche of Queen Tiy in the first instance accompanying that of the king A small globular vase of pale-green paste represented by the frag- ment (11)) had around its middle an in- cised band of hieroglyphs of which there remain only the words stability well-being and jo[y] -obviously from a long royal titulary In addition there are fragments of two little vases of purple and turquoise-blue n-ith engraved panels of inscription similar to that of the faience vase ( e )

The remaining item shown in Figure 35 (i) is a thin strip of ebony inlay prob- ably from a box or a piece of furniture I ts incised inscription once filled with yellow paint comprises the nbty-name of

4 4 1 I have found no exact parallel to the composi- tion seen here but the elements occur in numerorls representations of this stage of the Sed-festival eg Gayet Temple de Louror P1 LXXI Big 177 ( = L U 111 P1 74 d l Winlock J E B IV P1 IV Chevrier A n n Ser t XLVII 170 P1 XXVI Bisson do la Roque Fouil les I n s t f r Ca i re VIII P1 VII I See also Frankfort K i n g s h i p and the Gods chap vi

4 4 31x1-4 BCc NO11215494 d 4 3 Dark-blue faIence with light-blue lueroglyphs 4 4 4 The inscription of ( q ) is dark blue that of ( r ) is

white 4 d j AIJIA Acc Xos 11215505 and 507

Amenhotep I11 (the T~vo-Goddesses Establisher-of-Laws- (and-)Pacifier-of-the- T ~ v o - L a n d s ) ~ ~ ~followed by the title the Good God which normally precedes the throne-name of the king

VIII MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION8

Probably never very numerous the in- scriptions of this class which have been re- covered from the scanty and thoroughly plundered ruins of the palace buildings are few in number and for the most part ex- tremely fragmentary The majority of them come from the Temple of Amfin which though built of brick like the rest of the palace was provided with inscribed doorframes offering tables stelae and statues of stone and included several rooms the I-alls of which Tvere adorned with moldings ornamental patterns and inscriptions of gilded ~vood and plaster inlaid with blue faience tiles

Since all but one of the pieces of stone plaster and tilework bearing these in-scriptions were reburied at Thehes before the conclusion of the 31useum1s escava- tions in 1920 our knowledge of them is derived almost entirely from photographs sketches hand copies and notes made in the field by Winlock White and Lansing and it is these records now in New York which have provided the illustrations of Figures 36-39 and which form the basis of the discussion to follo~v Sever for ex- ample having seen the fragments of in- scribed offering tables from the palaces rlemple of Amiin I have in Figure 38 simply reprduced a photograph of Lan- sings original pencil sketches of these fragments rearranged and relabeled but otherwise untouched

In the Palace of the King the painted plaster ceiling of the pharaohs bedcham- her had heen decorated down its middle with a succession of great spread vul- t u r e ~ ~ ~ under the wings of each of which

4 4 6 Gauthier 1irre d e ro i i 11 306 ff

were painted in large detailed hieroglyphs the titles and names of Amenhotep 111 Enough fragments of fallen plaster were foundon the floor of the ruined chamber to restore one pair of the inscriptions and a hand copy of these (taken from Win- locks notes for February 1 1911) is given at the top of Figure 39 (1)On the right under the left wing of the vulture one read The Good God Lord of the TWO Lands Nebmacrec Chosen of Rec given life and on the left separated from the foregoing by the legs and tail of the bird The Son of Re Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given life The nomen-cartouche in the latter inscription had been painted over with ~vhitewash-evidently by fol-

lowers of the Aten desirous of obliterating the name of Amiin wherever it occurred448 These appear to have been the only monu- mental inscriptions found by the Muse- ums expedition anywhere in the palace area outside of the inclosure of the Temple of A m i ~ n ~ ~ ~

One of the most interesting pieces of stone discovered in the temple was part of the tip of the plumed headdress of a colossal statue of the god Amfin in dark- gray porphyritic d i ~ r i t e ~ ~ (Fig 36 top) The width of the remaining plume (23 cm) compared with the correspond- ing measurement on the well-known group of- Amiin and Tutcankhamiin in the Louvre451 indicates that the Xllalkata

44 Winlock Bull MMA 1912 p 186 See also Tytus P r e l i m i n a r R e p o r t pp 18 20 and cf Capart L S r t amp g y p t i e n I PI 147 Prisse dnvennes IIilttuirc iie l ar t i g y p t i e n ttins I trchitecture PI [I

4 s Cf Tytus o p r i t p 10

4 9 See however i b id pp 10 25

450 A stone often and (I am told) incorrectly tle- scribed as black granite The fragment which is 46 cm in height and 30 cm in width was found by Lansing during the season of 1916-17 near the cen- tral portion of the temple proper Pieces of probably the same statue (described as unimportant frag-ments of a black granite statue) were found by White during the preceding season in the same general locality

4 5 1 Benedite M o n u m e n t s P io t S S I V 47-68 See also E n c y r l o p P d i e p h o t o g r a p h i y u r d e l a r t 1 L e ~ l l u s i e d u L o u v r e pp 78-79

statue when complete n-as 440 meters or ahout fourteen ant1 a half feet in height A s in the Louvre group the got1 as pro)- ably represented seated on a throne Ivith perhaps a smaller figure of the king stand- ing or kneeling before him452 Admirably carved and beautifully finished the statue may have been the temples principal cult image though its huge size tends to mili- tate against this-53 I ts back pilaster car- ried three vertical coliimns of incised hieroglyphic inscriptions of which are pre-

served the groups [Q] 1

r r-hat the tops of the sec-

ond and third columns respectively (Fig 36 upper right)

A fragment of sandstone door-lintel (Fig 36 lower left) found lying on the sur- face of the ground inside the temple in- losu sure^^^ was photographed by Evelyn FThite during the season of 1914-15 The piece measures 70 cm in length and 83 cm in height the lintel having been originally about 107 cm high-a sizable block of stone Its decoration lightly incised anti somewhat carelessly executed was whol- ly conventional a winged suns disk and helon- it two horizontal lines of inscrip tion with the titles and names of Amen- hotep III05 The kings prenomen [Neb]- ma [re ] with the epithet Heir of Re ( i l l s - f R-) included in the cartouche is fairly c ~ m m o n ~ occurring for example on a piece of re-used() sandstone relief found in the temple of Eye and IIorem- heb14j7which lies about a kilometer to the north of the palace area The tops of the

signs 18 a t its extreme left end are all

3 See Varille K a r n a k I 8-9 PI X V 4 5 3 See Holscher hxcavatzon o l f e d z n ~ f Hahu

IIT 26 154 White Bul l f~f-l1915 p 256 Lansing Bull

1fMd Alarch 1918 Supp lement p 8 4 2 5 Cf Varille K a r n a k I PI XII 17 456 Gauthier Lzvre des roiu 11 316 X X I X 317

SSS318 X S X I V 4 5 7 Hiilscher Excanalion o Medinet Habu 11 101

PI 43 n

that remain of the second line of inscrip- tion

A pair of fragmentary sandst onc tloor- jaml)s (Fig 36 lower right) though similar in style are smaller in scale than the lintel measuring only 20 cm in width the right jamb being preserved to a height of 70 cm They are from Lansings excavations of 1916-17 in the templearea Each evidently bore one of the names of Amenhotep 111 f ollo~r-ed by the expressions beloved of such-and-such a divinity and given life like RP forever Flre may guess that on the left jamb the deity referred to was Amen-Re [Lord of] Heaven and what remains of the signs a t the top of the frag- ment of the right jamb suggests the name of the goddess Shesmet (Ssmtt)45~luch more interesting than the principal in-scriptions are the tu-o small lines of text written near the bottom of the right jamb and given in hand copy in Figure 39 2 These inform us that the doorway or the structure to which it belonged was made under the direction of the Treasurer of the King of Lower Egypt the StolistGq of 3Iin-Amfin the Fourth Prophet of Amiin Simtit the justified

A prominent member of the hierarchy of hmiin Simiit is named as Fourth Prophet of the god in a statue inscription in Brussels together n-ith his three superi- ors the First Prophet Bleryptah the Second Prophet (and brother-in-law of the king) ltAnen and the Third Prophet Amenemhet460 Since the inscription re-ferred to is dated to Year 20 of Amenho- tep I11 and the chapel of Amiin in the Jfalkata palace was probably built for the celebration of the kings second Sed-

0 W b IT538 Budge Dic t ionary p 753 Gard O n 11 125

4 5 9 S m See Grdseloff A n n Serl XLITI 357 f f The title Stolist of AIin-ArnGn was borne in the Nineteenth Dynasty by IEhaCeniwast a so11 of the High Priest of B m h Wepwawetnlose (Lefebvre Histoire des yrands pramptres c l i ln~o7t p 240)

460 Capart and Spiegelberg -4 n 71 Sac A r eh d e Brurel les XVI 167 Fig 2

festival in Year 34461 it mould appear that Simtit held the rank of Fourth Prophet for about fourteen years462 Before the end of his career he was elevated to the grade of Second Prophet of Amiin and is so re- ferred to on toTo statues3 and two shawnbty-figure~~~4in the Cairo Museum He appears in the reliefs of the temple at Soleb participating in the celebration of Amenhotep 111s first Heb-~ed~ and lvas the owner of a decorated tomb on the Dira abul Naga at ThebesG6 On one of his statues in Cairo467 he bears the title First Kings Son of Amiin and the presence of his name on a doorway of one of the kings temples suggests that like ane en he -as related to Amenh~t~ep I11 either by blood or by marriage The fact that he was evi- dently in charge of what during the reign of Amenhotep I11 must have been the fourth most important of tmhe Theban temples of Amtin further suggests that there oras some sort of nominal division of responsibility between the four prophets of the god-the High Priest presiding at Karnak and delegating the immediate supervision of the Luxor temple the kings mortuary temple and the Malkata

401 See above p 85

402 Possibly less Sirniit may have received his ap- pointment as Fourth Prophet in Year 20 itself and the Malkata temple may have been built and inscribed a year or two before the celebration of the second Heb-sed During the reigns of Sethy I and Ramesses 11 Bakenkhonsu who eventually became High Priest of Amfin served twelve years as a Father of the God flf- teen years as Third Prophet and twelve years as Sec- ond Prophet (Lefebvre Hzstozre des g r a n d s p r l t r r s p 128)

463 Borchardt S t a t u e n t l nd S ta tue t t en 111161 Ko 932 IV 60 IGo 1107

4 6 4 Mariette Cat yl n des m o n u m e n t s d d b y d o s Nos 389 and 3 9 0 incorrectly dated by SIariette (and Lefebvre o p czt p 24 K O 1) to the late Middle K~ngdom The two Simiits listed by Lefebvre ( l ac czt IGos 1 and 9) are clearly one and the same man

465 Lepsius D e n k m u l e r 111PI 84 b

468 Porter-Sfoss T o p B i b l I 187 1 Varille A n n Seru S L 642 n 3

4 6 7 No 1107 See above n 483

temple to the Second Third and Fourth Prophets respectively

Similt may also have been the o-ner of a rough little sandstone stela a few bat- tered fragments of 11-hich mere recovered by Lansing from the ruins of the temple proper and are shown in the photograph at the bottom of Figure 37 A rectangular slab something over 45 cm in thickness the stela Ivas once painted white with blue hieroglyphs and red dividing lines the latter spaced on the average 3 em apart Preserved are parts of a seven-line inscription surmounting an incised design of indeterminate nature and comprising portions of the autobiography of a priest or temple official of Amtin With the aid of Lansings hand copy a revised version of which is given in Figure 39 (3) we can make out the following phrases

(1) the Prince of Princes468 [intro]ducetl me into the House of Amfin

(2) for his469 son Nehmacrei who be- longs to

(3) - V amp [ ~ ] W ( )a long lifetime as king living

(4) life() great of victories ( 5 ) Went [dou~n] the Kings [Daughter]

HenettonehQ in front of (6) great of hirn who causes rnonu-

ment which is (7) in the place the gods words which

he recited Mention has already been made of the

tile and gilded plaster decoration of a row

6 Probably Amenhotep 111 (see Varille A n n Sera XXXIII 93-94 XXXIV 13-16 Capart C h r o n d Eq X 322-24 Gauthier Liare des ro i s 11 315 XXV 316 XXVIII) though the epithet F k l h g i w was current before his time being borne for example by Amenhotep I1on his great quartzite stela from Sakkiireh (1 34 Badaw-i A n n S e r e XLII 23 P1 I)

468 ilmiins There is however a bare possibility that the pronoun and the epithet Prince of Princes in the preceding line refer to Thutmose IV

4 7 0 Amenhotep 111ssecond eldest daughter and the senior princess following Sitamiins elevation to the status of queen See Gauthier o p ci t 11 341-42 Hayes Bull M M d 1948 pp 272 276-78

horizon4 M a y he he given4 life stability md well-being [forever]

Thc expression Offering-of-the-1lt001 (wdn 11 tp-ht) leaves little room for doubt that these small stone basins formed part of the furnishings of an elevated open-air sanctuary of the type dedicated to the worship of the sun-god (Rec of the Roof479 and known from texts of the Twentieth Dynasty and later times to have been called the House of RP of the Roof of the House of Amtin4xo Such a sanctuary existed in the great temple a t Karnak as early as the reign of Thut-mose III481and the presence of one in so small and unimportant a temple as that of the Llalkata palace indicates how prevalent shrines of this type must have been in the Amtin temples of the period

Since the function of our offering tables was presumably to receive libations and gifts of food presented to the sun-god it seems frivolous to suggest that they I-ould also have been useful for catching the fresh myrrh and fresh incense which Heaven in tn70 Eighteenth Dynasty in- scriptions is said to rain down upon the roofs of royal temples482

A glance a t the plan of the northern- most quarter of the palace published by

in 1918shows that the Temple

4 7 7 R-m](~c)[(n)RCwbnm iht ] Cf Aeg Inschr Brr- lin 11182No 7290 For Rec wenlightperhaps sub- stitute Aten (the disk of the sun not the god of Amarna) as in Berlin 7274 and 7271 (deg Inschr 11 154 and 105)

[I di] nb etc Cf Cairo 23040 23073 (Ka-mal op cit)

4 7 9 R tp-hl or R m tp-ht (Re in the Roof) a form of the god worshiped as early as the reigu of Kir~g Sahurec of the Fifth Dynasty and referred to in two places on the Palermo Stoue (verso 3 1 and 4 3 Schafer Ein Bruchstuck altagyptischer Annalen pp 36 and 39)

4 8 Pr-RC tp-ht Pr-Imn See the references giveu in (iard On 11 216 under -4 462 and in Kees Orirntalia XVIII 436-30

Icees op cit pp 427-42

48 Spiegelberg 24~LIII 99

fl Op cil p 9

of Amtin properly speaking occupied only the c+entral section of a long ljuiltiing cstcntling across the tcrracactl 11cst eritl of a vast ~valletl inclosure (see nlho Pig 1 above) The northern lying of this build- ing appears to have been given over to offices and magazines-probably for the contributions to the kings second Neb-scd -but the richly decorated rooms at its southern end were certainly intended for some less utilitarian purpose and its southeast corner was taken up by a luxuri- ously appointed dwelling house or small palace On the north sitie of the main in- closure are the remains of a large multi- piered huilding nhich is believed to have been the kings Srd-festival anti adjoining this on the west a succession of courts and smaller buildings To the south and east of the inclosure are the ruins of other structures including several large and handsome villas There is every probability that the inclosure once con-tained a big rectangular pool of r ~ - a t e r ~ ~ ~ fed perhaps from the principal palace lake the present-day Birket IIabu

Some distance south of the main city at Tell el hmarna there is a generally similar architectural layout consisting of two big rectangular inclosures lying side by side and containing in addition to pools villas magazines and other build- ings a small temple This temple was presumably dedicated to the Aten and the whole complex was called the m3rur or pleasure-precinct() of the Aten- usually referred to by modern ~vriters simply as ilIaru-hten486

Like Pr-hcy the name nhich he used

4 See above p 85

A usual feature of the larger ancient Egyptian courtyards and one which would explain the complete absence of building remains in the central portion of this inclosure

8 8 City I chap v Pls S X I X fl The riame XIarll- 4teuW and the word m3ria are discussed by Ciu11n 011 pp 133-58

the and its wine is (even) more plentifulm3 than for his principal palace a t A m a r ~ ~ a ~ ~ ~ term m3rw was probably derived by Akhenaten from some portion of his fathers palace at Thebes where how- ever the full name ~vould in all likelihood have been the m3rw of Amiin Granted that a part of the Theban palace was so named n-e can hardly doubt that the part in question was the isolated northern quarter with the temple and inclosure of Amiin

Fortunately there is inscriptional evi- dence to show that hmenhotep I11actual-ly did build a Maru-Amtin across the river from Luxor in the general locality -

occupied by the illalkata temple inclo- sure This evidence is found in lines 12-14 of the kings well-known granite stela in C a i r~ ~here following descriptions of the mortuary temple in western Thebes and the temple a t Luxor there appears the follo~i-ing account of a hitherto un-identified structure

Ariotller nlonulrie~it which His Majesty 111tde for his father Amfin making for him a

r r i l n i (gt-) as an offering to the god -I n

oppositeg Soutllern a place ofO ~ e t ~ ~ ~ arnusernent for my Father in his goodly festi- va l (~ ) In it I erected a great templeM1 (which is) like the Sun (Rc)when it appears in glory on the horizon and ~vhich is planted with all (kinds of) flowers Fair is the Primaeval Water (inla) which ii in its lake at every season4g2

8 See above pp 178 and 182

1x5 Ko 34025 See Lacau Stkles ilu Touuel E m p i r e 11 S V I The text as restored by Sethy I contains a t~rirnber of iniswritings which are emended by Spiegel- berg in R e c l r a a S X 4CL43 (see esp p 41 UII 5-9)

l a gHl-I lr -n before the face of facing-here I believe in the sense of directly across (the iVile) from Compare the common expression for west- err1 Thebes Bft-l~in b s Opposite-her-Lord ( I i7b 111 276 b)

The temple of Luxor On a map of Thebes a line drau-n from the sanctuary of the Lrixor temple a r ~ d projected westward a t right angles to the corirse of the river passes just to the north of the palace area

(I t -nr r t a stock expression uot really in- dicative of the actual size of the temple which irl this case happeus to have bee11 relatively small

(its) water-like the pouring forth of the Inun- dation (Hpy)a4 created by the Lord of Eter- nity Numerous are the possessions of the place The taxes of every country are received and plentiful tribute is brought before my Father being the presentations of all lands

Aside from the comments made in the footnotes there seems to be nothing which needs to be added to this description of what would appear to have been the northern quarter of the Malkata palace except to note that for an inscription of its type and period it is unusually accurate and complete

IX MISCELLANEOUS INSCRIPTIONS

Among the few inscribed objects found in the ruins of the palace which do not belong to one of the eight categories al- ready discussed were two fragments of a name-stone of H a t ~ h e p s u t ~ ~ j picked up by Lansing in November 1917 in the vil- lage area to the n-est of the North Pa1ace here can be little doubt that the stone

came originally from the temple of Hat- shepsut and Thutmose I11 at Medinet Habu where numerous examples of the same type have been found4 and that it had wandered thence into the palace area at a relatively recent date

Mixed in with the fragments of in-scribed jars from the Palace of the King were two potsherds with portions of Eighteenth Dynasty hieratic copies of two famous literary texts the Instruction of hmenemhet I (Fig 39 4)495 and a n-ell-

4 0 2 Thanks u e may suppose to the channel con- necting the Uirket Habri with the Nile (see Engelbach and 12facaldin B u l l rle I I n s t rlampgple XS52)

4 9 3 See the second column of the table of Fig 16 above

4 0 1 See De Brick On the 3Ieaning of the Name fPpj Orzentalza S e e r l a n d z c a 1049 pp 1-22

6 Ou stones of this type see my O s t r a k a a n d Tame- S t o n r s pp 45-46

4 9 6 See eg Holscher E r c a c a t i o n o M e d i n e t I I a b u 1132 Figs 27 28

0 Small portions of the begitlr~irlg of the text (Pap Sallier 11 1-2) are preserved

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known model letter of the earlier Middle Iiingdom (Fig 39 5)498

MTith the exception of some pieces of in- scribed alabaster vases from the store- rooms of the Temple of Amdn499 of xvhich unhappily I can find no copies or photo- graphs this completes the corpus of Eighteenth Dynasty inscriptions recov-erecl from the palace by the Metropolitan 3luseums espedibion A few Late Dynas- tic burials with inscribed coffins some Demotic ostraka and half a dozen in- scribed amphorae of the Greco-Roman Period were also found but these have no bearing on the history of the Malkata as

a royal residence-a history which seems to have ended abruptly vith the rise of the Nineteenth Dynasty

Exclusive of Amenhotep I11 himself thirteen royal persons are mentioned on inscribed objects found within the con- fines of the Malkata palace Though the names of some of these persons appear on objects or in contests of no particular his- torical significance it seems desirable nevertheless to list them all in chronologi- cal order accompanied by indications of the types and quantities of the inscrip- tions in which they occur

Hatshepsut I name-stone probably from rtledinet Habu Thutmose 111 4 document-sealings (Types S 1 2 Fig 31) 4

scarabs (Types R 24-27 Fig 34) Amenliotep 11 2 document-sealings (Type S 3 Fig 31) Tllutnlose I V 9 jar-labels (Types 31 32 45 Figs 5 t i ) 2 docu-

ment-sealings (Types S 4 5 Fig 31) Queen JIute~nuya I jar-label (Type 64 Fig 7) Queer1 Tiy I jar-label (Type 98 Fig 8) numerous brick

stimys (Types 111 IT Fig 30) 32 ring bezels (Types R 12-16 Fig 34) 2 scarabs (p 233 and n 419) 1 kohl-tube and 2 rase fragment^ (Fig 35 d q r)

Tlic Kings (Great) Wife (=T iy ) 26 jar-labels (Types 7 18 94 129 147 172 207 Figs 4 8 10 11 1314) 1jar-sealing (Tgt-pe 0 Fig 26)

Queen Sitarniln 51 jar-labels (Types 94-97 112 113 137 139 Figs8911) 2 ring bezels (Type R 17 Fig 34)

Princess Henettoneb Rlentioned on a sandstone stela (Figs 37 bot-tom 39 3)

Irince Arnenhotep (=Amenliotep IV ) 1 jar-sealing (Type KK Fig 27) ilmenhotep IV (ilkhenaten) 3 document-sealings (Types S 97 120 124 Fig

33) 1 ring bezel (Type H 18 Fig 34) Smenklikar 2 ring bezels (Types R 19 20 Fig 34) Tutcankhnmtin I ring bezel (Type R 21 Fig 34) (JueenAnkhesenamOn (CZrlkhesenpatten) 1 document-sealing (Type P 125 Fig 33) 1 ring

bezel (Type R 22 Fig 34) Horelnlieb 1 fragment of sandstone doorjamb (Fig 37 1q1-

per right)

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FIG 35-Inscribed small objects from the Palace of Amenhotep I11

FIG 36-Statue and door-frame fragments from the Temple of Amtin in the Palace of Amen- hotep 111

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FIG 37-Insrribed fragir~ents of plaster and sandstone from the Palace of ~menhott~) 111

FIG 38 -Offering tables

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three n f r - ~ i g n s ~ ~ ~ in the other (b) fol- lowed by the epithet [beloved of] Amen- It Lord of Heaven

The prenomen of Amenhotep 111 (Kebmac[rEc]) appears in the openwork design of a handsome but unfortunately fragmentary bracelet of bright-blue fai- ence (r)

The lo]-er part of a kohl-tube of yellow faience with the inscriptions encrusted in deep-purplish-blue glaze (d) bears the cartouche of Queen Tiy and the wish -lay she live Fragments of t xo similar tubes in white faience (j)and pale-green faience ( k ) were inscribed also in dark blue n-ith the titles and name of the king The Good God Lord of the Two Lands NebmacrEc [given] life43a

-4 white faience lotus-petal pendant (f)439 is tipped with a blob of yellow glaze and adorned in dark-blue glaze with the prenomen-cartouche of Amenhotep I11 surmountetl by the solar disk (red) and double plume Part of the same cartouche without the plumes appears in dark blue on a fragment of a molded lotus-flower ornament of pale green and white fay- ence ( h ) 440

The most interesting of the vase frag- ments is a small piece from the side of a blue fafence goblet (g) engraved on the exterior with part of a Scd-festival scene441 At the right the king appears heated in a pavillion wearing the Crown of Lon-er Egypt and holding in his hands the crook and flail At the left above

4 1 r Cf Hall op c i t No 2880 Daressy Fouil lrs No 24298 4 Petrie S i x T p n ~ p l e s P1 V 11 The ud3t-eye alone appears on most of the examples cited above in n 435 The design shown in Fig 34 is repeated on the other side of the throw-stick in this case however w-ith the throne-name of the king (NebmacrGc) The fragment was found by Lansing during the season of 1917-18 in a house south of the Temple of Aman

4 3 8 A third example in green faience (MMA Acc No 11215493) preserves a minute portion of the same inscription

4 3 9 Cf A n ~ a r n a P1 XX Citw I I P1 XXSVI 1 2

4 4 0 Cf i n ~ a r n o P1 XIX C i t y 1 1 P1 XXXVI 1 2

an arm holding the symbol of (many years and having suspended from it one or more related symbols can be made out the lower part of the cnrtouche with the name ([Amen]hotep Ruler of Thebes

A fragmentary vase of white faience (e) and another of yellow faience (not

both decorated and inscribed in dark blue preserve on their sides parts of a rectangular panel with the names and titles of the king The Good God Neb- macrF the Son of RElt Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given [life] forever and por- tions of the kings cartouches appear on fragments of three blue faience dishes -(1 0 and p) and on a segment of a white faience jar-lid (m)Pieces of a jar of blue faience (y) and a saucer of gray fai-ence (r)444 carry the cartouche of Queen Tiy in the first instance accompanying that of the king A small globular vase of pale-green paste represented by the frag- ment (11)) had around its middle an in- cised band of hieroglyphs of which there remain only the words stability well-being and jo[y] -obviously from a long royal titulary In addition there are fragments of two little vases of purple and turquoise-blue n-ith engraved panels of inscription similar to that of the faience vase ( e )

The remaining item shown in Figure 35 (i) is a thin strip of ebony inlay prob- ably from a box or a piece of furniture I ts incised inscription once filled with yellow paint comprises the nbty-name of

4 4 1 I have found no exact parallel to the composi- tion seen here but the elements occur in numerorls representations of this stage of the Sed-festival eg Gayet Temple de Louror P1 LXXI Big 177 ( = L U 111 P1 74 d l Winlock J E B IV P1 IV Chevrier A n n Ser t XLVII 170 P1 XXVI Bisson do la Roque Fouil les I n s t f r Ca i re VIII P1 VII I See also Frankfort K i n g s h i p and the Gods chap vi

4 4 31x1-4 BCc NO11215494 d 4 3 Dark-blue faIence with light-blue lueroglyphs 4 4 4 The inscription of ( q ) is dark blue that of ( r ) is

white 4 d j AIJIA Acc Xos 11215505 and 507

Amenhotep I11 (the T~vo-Goddesses Establisher-of-Laws- (and-)Pacifier-of-the- T ~ v o - L a n d s ) ~ ~ ~followed by the title the Good God which normally precedes the throne-name of the king

VIII MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION8

Probably never very numerous the in- scriptions of this class which have been re- covered from the scanty and thoroughly plundered ruins of the palace buildings are few in number and for the most part ex- tremely fragmentary The majority of them come from the Temple of Amfin which though built of brick like the rest of the palace was provided with inscribed doorframes offering tables stelae and statues of stone and included several rooms the I-alls of which Tvere adorned with moldings ornamental patterns and inscriptions of gilded ~vood and plaster inlaid with blue faience tiles

Since all but one of the pieces of stone plaster and tilework bearing these in-scriptions were reburied at Thehes before the conclusion of the 31useum1s escava- tions in 1920 our knowledge of them is derived almost entirely from photographs sketches hand copies and notes made in the field by Winlock White and Lansing and it is these records now in New York which have provided the illustrations of Figures 36-39 and which form the basis of the discussion to follo~v Sever for ex- ample having seen the fragments of in- scribed offering tables from the palaces rlemple of Amiin I have in Figure 38 simply reprduced a photograph of Lan- sings original pencil sketches of these fragments rearranged and relabeled but otherwise untouched

In the Palace of the King the painted plaster ceiling of the pharaohs bedcham- her had heen decorated down its middle with a succession of great spread vul- t u r e ~ ~ ~ under the wings of each of which

4 4 6 Gauthier 1irre d e ro i i 11 306 ff

were painted in large detailed hieroglyphs the titles and names of Amenhotep 111 Enough fragments of fallen plaster were foundon the floor of the ruined chamber to restore one pair of the inscriptions and a hand copy of these (taken from Win- locks notes for February 1 1911) is given at the top of Figure 39 (1)On the right under the left wing of the vulture one read The Good God Lord of the TWO Lands Nebmacrec Chosen of Rec given life and on the left separated from the foregoing by the legs and tail of the bird The Son of Re Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given life The nomen-cartouche in the latter inscription had been painted over with ~vhitewash-evidently by fol-

lowers of the Aten desirous of obliterating the name of Amiin wherever it occurred448 These appear to have been the only monu- mental inscriptions found by the Muse- ums expedition anywhere in the palace area outside of the inclosure of the Temple of A m i ~ n ~ ~ ~

One of the most interesting pieces of stone discovered in the temple was part of the tip of the plumed headdress of a colossal statue of the god Amfin in dark- gray porphyritic d i ~ r i t e ~ ~ (Fig 36 top) The width of the remaining plume (23 cm) compared with the correspond- ing measurement on the well-known group of- Amiin and Tutcankhamiin in the Louvre451 indicates that the Xllalkata

44 Winlock Bull MMA 1912 p 186 See also Tytus P r e l i m i n a r R e p o r t pp 18 20 and cf Capart L S r t amp g y p t i e n I PI 147 Prisse dnvennes IIilttuirc iie l ar t i g y p t i e n ttins I trchitecture PI [I

4 s Cf Tytus o p r i t p 10

4 9 See however i b id pp 10 25

450 A stone often and (I am told) incorrectly tle- scribed as black granite The fragment which is 46 cm in height and 30 cm in width was found by Lansing during the season of 1916-17 near the cen- tral portion of the temple proper Pieces of probably the same statue (described as unimportant frag-ments of a black granite statue) were found by White during the preceding season in the same general locality

4 5 1 Benedite M o n u m e n t s P io t S S I V 47-68 See also E n c y r l o p P d i e p h o t o g r a p h i y u r d e l a r t 1 L e ~ l l u s i e d u L o u v r e pp 78-79

statue when complete n-as 440 meters or ahout fourteen ant1 a half feet in height A s in the Louvre group the got1 as pro)- ably represented seated on a throne Ivith perhaps a smaller figure of the king stand- ing or kneeling before him452 Admirably carved and beautifully finished the statue may have been the temples principal cult image though its huge size tends to mili- tate against this-53 I ts back pilaster car- ried three vertical coliimns of incised hieroglyphic inscriptions of which are pre-

served the groups [Q] 1

r r-hat the tops of the sec-

ond and third columns respectively (Fig 36 upper right)

A fragment of sandstone door-lintel (Fig 36 lower left) found lying on the sur- face of the ground inside the temple in- losu sure^^^ was photographed by Evelyn FThite during the season of 1914-15 The piece measures 70 cm in length and 83 cm in height the lintel having been originally about 107 cm high-a sizable block of stone Its decoration lightly incised anti somewhat carelessly executed was whol- ly conventional a winged suns disk and helon- it two horizontal lines of inscrip tion with the titles and names of Amen- hotep III05 The kings prenomen [Neb]- ma [re ] with the epithet Heir of Re ( i l l s - f R-) included in the cartouche is fairly c ~ m m o n ~ occurring for example on a piece of re-used() sandstone relief found in the temple of Eye and IIorem- heb14j7which lies about a kilometer to the north of the palace area The tops of the

signs 18 a t its extreme left end are all

3 See Varille K a r n a k I 8-9 PI X V 4 5 3 See Holscher hxcavatzon o l f e d z n ~ f Hahu

IIT 26 154 White Bul l f~f-l1915 p 256 Lansing Bull

1fMd Alarch 1918 Supp lement p 8 4 2 5 Cf Varille K a r n a k I PI XII 17 456 Gauthier Lzvre des roiu 11 316 X X I X 317

SSS318 X S X I V 4 5 7 Hiilscher Excanalion o Medinet Habu 11 101

PI 43 n

that remain of the second line of inscrip- tion

A pair of fragmentary sandst onc tloor- jaml)s (Fig 36 lower right) though similar in style are smaller in scale than the lintel measuring only 20 cm in width the right jamb being preserved to a height of 70 cm They are from Lansings excavations of 1916-17 in the templearea Each evidently bore one of the names of Amenhotep 111 f ollo~r-ed by the expressions beloved of such-and-such a divinity and given life like RP forever Flre may guess that on the left jamb the deity referred to was Amen-Re [Lord of] Heaven and what remains of the signs a t the top of the frag- ment of the right jamb suggests the name of the goddess Shesmet (Ssmtt)45~luch more interesting than the principal in-scriptions are the tu-o small lines of text written near the bottom of the right jamb and given in hand copy in Figure 39 2 These inform us that the doorway or the structure to which it belonged was made under the direction of the Treasurer of the King of Lower Egypt the StolistGq of 3Iin-Amfin the Fourth Prophet of Amiin Simtit the justified

A prominent member of the hierarchy of hmiin Simiit is named as Fourth Prophet of the god in a statue inscription in Brussels together n-ith his three superi- ors the First Prophet Bleryptah the Second Prophet (and brother-in-law of the king) ltAnen and the Third Prophet Amenemhet460 Since the inscription re-ferred to is dated to Year 20 of Amenho- tep I11 and the chapel of Amiin in the Jfalkata palace was probably built for the celebration of the kings second Sed-

0 W b IT538 Budge Dic t ionary p 753 Gard O n 11 125

4 5 9 S m See Grdseloff A n n Serl XLITI 357 f f The title Stolist of AIin-ArnGn was borne in the Nineteenth Dynasty by IEhaCeniwast a so11 of the High Priest of B m h Wepwawetnlose (Lefebvre Histoire des yrands pramptres c l i ln~o7t p 240)

460 Capart and Spiegelberg -4 n 71 Sac A r eh d e Brurel les XVI 167 Fig 2

festival in Year 34461 it mould appear that Simtit held the rank of Fourth Prophet for about fourteen years462 Before the end of his career he was elevated to the grade of Second Prophet of Amiin and is so re- ferred to on toTo statues3 and two shawnbty-figure~~~4in the Cairo Museum He appears in the reliefs of the temple at Soleb participating in the celebration of Amenhotep 111s first Heb-~ed~ and lvas the owner of a decorated tomb on the Dira abul Naga at ThebesG6 On one of his statues in Cairo467 he bears the title First Kings Son of Amiin and the presence of his name on a doorway of one of the kings temples suggests that like ane en he -as related to Amenh~t~ep I11 either by blood or by marriage The fact that he was evi- dently in charge of what during the reign of Amenhotep I11 must have been the fourth most important of tmhe Theban temples of Amtin further suggests that there oras some sort of nominal division of responsibility between the four prophets of the god-the High Priest presiding at Karnak and delegating the immediate supervision of the Luxor temple the kings mortuary temple and the Malkata

401 See above p 85

402 Possibly less Sirniit may have received his ap- pointment as Fourth Prophet in Year 20 itself and the Malkata temple may have been built and inscribed a year or two before the celebration of the second Heb-sed During the reigns of Sethy I and Ramesses 11 Bakenkhonsu who eventually became High Priest of Amfin served twelve years as a Father of the God flf- teen years as Third Prophet and twelve years as Sec- ond Prophet (Lefebvre Hzstozre des g r a n d s p r l t r r s p 128)

463 Borchardt S t a t u e n t l nd S ta tue t t en 111161 Ko 932 IV 60 IGo 1107

4 6 4 Mariette Cat yl n des m o n u m e n t s d d b y d o s Nos 389 and 3 9 0 incorrectly dated by SIariette (and Lefebvre o p czt p 24 K O 1) to the late Middle K~ngdom The two Simiits listed by Lefebvre ( l ac czt IGos 1 and 9) are clearly one and the same man

465 Lepsius D e n k m u l e r 111PI 84 b

468 Porter-Sfoss T o p B i b l I 187 1 Varille A n n Seru S L 642 n 3

4 6 7 No 1107 See above n 483

temple to the Second Third and Fourth Prophets respectively

Similt may also have been the o-ner of a rough little sandstone stela a few bat- tered fragments of 11-hich mere recovered by Lansing from the ruins of the temple proper and are shown in the photograph at the bottom of Figure 37 A rectangular slab something over 45 cm in thickness the stela Ivas once painted white with blue hieroglyphs and red dividing lines the latter spaced on the average 3 em apart Preserved are parts of a seven-line inscription surmounting an incised design of indeterminate nature and comprising portions of the autobiography of a priest or temple official of Amtin With the aid of Lansings hand copy a revised version of which is given in Figure 39 (3) we can make out the following phrases

(1) the Prince of Princes468 [intro]ducetl me into the House of Amfin

(2) for his469 son Nehmacrei who be- longs to

(3) - V amp [ ~ ] W ( )a long lifetime as king living

(4) life() great of victories ( 5 ) Went [dou~n] the Kings [Daughter]

HenettonehQ in front of (6) great of hirn who causes rnonu-

ment which is (7) in the place the gods words which

he recited Mention has already been made of the

tile and gilded plaster decoration of a row

6 Probably Amenhotep 111 (see Varille A n n Sera XXXIII 93-94 XXXIV 13-16 Capart C h r o n d Eq X 322-24 Gauthier Liare des ro i s 11 315 XXV 316 XXVIII) though the epithet F k l h g i w was current before his time being borne for example by Amenhotep I1on his great quartzite stela from Sakkiireh (1 34 Badaw-i A n n S e r e XLII 23 P1 I)

468 ilmiins There is however a bare possibility that the pronoun and the epithet Prince of Princes in the preceding line refer to Thutmose IV

4 7 0 Amenhotep 111ssecond eldest daughter and the senior princess following Sitamiins elevation to the status of queen See Gauthier o p ci t 11 341-42 Hayes Bull M M d 1948 pp 272 276-78

horizon4 M a y he he given4 life stability md well-being [forever]

Thc expression Offering-of-the-1lt001 (wdn 11 tp-ht) leaves little room for doubt that these small stone basins formed part of the furnishings of an elevated open-air sanctuary of the type dedicated to the worship of the sun-god (Rec of the Roof479 and known from texts of the Twentieth Dynasty and later times to have been called the House of RP of the Roof of the House of Amtin4xo Such a sanctuary existed in the great temple a t Karnak as early as the reign of Thut-mose III481and the presence of one in so small and unimportant a temple as that of the Llalkata palace indicates how prevalent shrines of this type must have been in the Amtin temples of the period

Since the function of our offering tables was presumably to receive libations and gifts of food presented to the sun-god it seems frivolous to suggest that they I-ould also have been useful for catching the fresh myrrh and fresh incense which Heaven in tn70 Eighteenth Dynasty in- scriptions is said to rain down upon the roofs of royal temples482

A glance a t the plan of the northern- most quarter of the palace published by

in 1918shows that the Temple

4 7 7 R-m](~c)[(n)RCwbnm iht ] Cf Aeg Inschr Brr- lin 11182No 7290 For Rec wenlightperhaps sub- stitute Aten (the disk of the sun not the god of Amarna) as in Berlin 7274 and 7271 (deg Inschr 11 154 and 105)

[I di] nb etc Cf Cairo 23040 23073 (Ka-mal op cit)

4 7 9 R tp-hl or R m tp-ht (Re in the Roof) a form of the god worshiped as early as the reigu of Kir~g Sahurec of the Fifth Dynasty and referred to in two places on the Palermo Stoue (verso 3 1 and 4 3 Schafer Ein Bruchstuck altagyptischer Annalen pp 36 and 39)

4 8 Pr-RC tp-ht Pr-Imn See the references giveu in (iard On 11 216 under -4 462 and in Kees Orirntalia XVIII 436-30

Icees op cit pp 427-42

48 Spiegelberg 24~LIII 99

fl Op cil p 9

of Amtin properly speaking occupied only the c+entral section of a long ljuiltiing cstcntling across the tcrracactl 11cst eritl of a vast ~valletl inclosure (see nlho Pig 1 above) The northern lying of this build- ing appears to have been given over to offices and magazines-probably for the contributions to the kings second Neb-scd -but the richly decorated rooms at its southern end were certainly intended for some less utilitarian purpose and its southeast corner was taken up by a luxuri- ously appointed dwelling house or small palace On the north sitie of the main in- closure are the remains of a large multi- piered huilding nhich is believed to have been the kings Srd-festival anti adjoining this on the west a succession of courts and smaller buildings To the south and east of the inclosure are the ruins of other structures including several large and handsome villas There is every probability that the inclosure once con-tained a big rectangular pool of r ~ - a t e r ~ ~ ~ fed perhaps from the principal palace lake the present-day Birket IIabu

Some distance south of the main city at Tell el hmarna there is a generally similar architectural layout consisting of two big rectangular inclosures lying side by side and containing in addition to pools villas magazines and other build- ings a small temple This temple was presumably dedicated to the Aten and the whole complex was called the m3rur or pleasure-precinct() of the Aten- usually referred to by modern ~vriters simply as ilIaru-hten486

Like Pr-hcy the name nhich he used

4 See above p 85

A usual feature of the larger ancient Egyptian courtyards and one which would explain the complete absence of building remains in the central portion of this inclosure

8 8 City I chap v Pls S X I X fl The riame XIarll- 4teuW and the word m3ria are discussed by Ciu11n 011 pp 133-58

the and its wine is (even) more plentifulm3 than for his principal palace a t A m a r ~ ~ a ~ ~ ~ term m3rw was probably derived by Akhenaten from some portion of his fathers palace at Thebes where how- ever the full name ~vould in all likelihood have been the m3rw of Amiin Granted that a part of the Theban palace was so named n-e can hardly doubt that the part in question was the isolated northern quarter with the temple and inclosure of Amiin

Fortunately there is inscriptional evi- dence to show that hmenhotep I11actual-ly did build a Maru-Amtin across the river from Luxor in the general locality -

occupied by the illalkata temple inclo- sure This evidence is found in lines 12-14 of the kings well-known granite stela in C a i r~ ~here following descriptions of the mortuary temple in western Thebes and the temple a t Luxor there appears the follo~i-ing account of a hitherto un-identified structure

Ariotller nlonulrie~it which His Majesty 111tde for his father Amfin making for him a

r r i l n i (gt-) as an offering to the god -I n

oppositeg Soutllern a place ofO ~ e t ~ ~ ~ arnusernent for my Father in his goodly festi- va l (~ ) In it I erected a great templeM1 (which is) like the Sun (Rc)when it appears in glory on the horizon and ~vhich is planted with all (kinds of) flowers Fair is the Primaeval Water (inla) which ii in its lake at every season4g2

8 See above pp 178 and 182

1x5 Ko 34025 See Lacau Stkles ilu Touuel E m p i r e 11 S V I The text as restored by Sethy I contains a t~rirnber of iniswritings which are emended by Spiegel- berg in R e c l r a a S X 4CL43 (see esp p 41 UII 5-9)

l a gHl-I lr -n before the face of facing-here I believe in the sense of directly across (the iVile) from Compare the common expression for west- err1 Thebes Bft-l~in b s Opposite-her-Lord ( I i7b 111 276 b)

The temple of Luxor On a map of Thebes a line drau-n from the sanctuary of the Lrixor temple a r ~ d projected westward a t right angles to the corirse of the river passes just to the north of the palace area

(I t -nr r t a stock expression uot really in- dicative of the actual size of the temple which irl this case happeus to have bee11 relatively small

(its) water-like the pouring forth of the Inun- dation (Hpy)a4 created by the Lord of Eter- nity Numerous are the possessions of the place The taxes of every country are received and plentiful tribute is brought before my Father being the presentations of all lands

Aside from the comments made in the footnotes there seems to be nothing which needs to be added to this description of what would appear to have been the northern quarter of the Malkata palace except to note that for an inscription of its type and period it is unusually accurate and complete

IX MISCELLANEOUS INSCRIPTIONS

Among the few inscribed objects found in the ruins of the palace which do not belong to one of the eight categories al- ready discussed were two fragments of a name-stone of H a t ~ h e p s u t ~ ~ j picked up by Lansing in November 1917 in the vil- lage area to the n-est of the North Pa1ace here can be little doubt that the stone

came originally from the temple of Hat- shepsut and Thutmose I11 at Medinet Habu where numerous examples of the same type have been found4 and that it had wandered thence into the palace area at a relatively recent date

Mixed in with the fragments of in-scribed jars from the Palace of the King were two potsherds with portions of Eighteenth Dynasty hieratic copies of two famous literary texts the Instruction of hmenemhet I (Fig 39 4)495 and a n-ell-

4 0 2 Thanks u e may suppose to the channel con- necting the Uirket Habri with the Nile (see Engelbach and 12facaldin B u l l rle I I n s t rlampgple XS52)

4 9 3 See the second column of the table of Fig 16 above

4 0 1 See De Brick On the 3Ieaning of the Name fPpj Orzentalza S e e r l a n d z c a 1049 pp 1-22

6 Ou stones of this type see my O s t r a k a a n d Tame- S t o n r s pp 45-46

4 9 6 See eg Holscher E r c a c a t i o n o M e d i n e t I I a b u 1132 Figs 27 28

0 Small portions of the begitlr~irlg of the text (Pap Sallier 11 1-2) are preserved

242 JOURNAL S~UDIESOF NEAREASTERK

known model letter of the earlier Middle Iiingdom (Fig 39 5)498

MTith the exception of some pieces of in- scribed alabaster vases from the store- rooms of the Temple of Amdn499 of xvhich unhappily I can find no copies or photo- graphs this completes the corpus of Eighteenth Dynasty inscriptions recov-erecl from the palace by the Metropolitan 3luseums espedibion A few Late Dynas- tic burials with inscribed coffins some Demotic ostraka and half a dozen in- scribed amphorae of the Greco-Roman Period were also found but these have no bearing on the history of the Malkata as

a royal residence-a history which seems to have ended abruptly vith the rise of the Nineteenth Dynasty

Exclusive of Amenhotep I11 himself thirteen royal persons are mentioned on inscribed objects found within the con- fines of the Malkata palace Though the names of some of these persons appear on objects or in contests of no particular his- torical significance it seems desirable nevertheless to list them all in chronologi- cal order accompanied by indications of the types and quantities of the inscrip- tions in which they occur

Hatshepsut I name-stone probably from rtledinet Habu Thutmose 111 4 document-sealings (Types S 1 2 Fig 31) 4

scarabs (Types R 24-27 Fig 34) Amenliotep 11 2 document-sealings (Type S 3 Fig 31) Tllutnlose I V 9 jar-labels (Types 31 32 45 Figs 5 t i ) 2 docu-

ment-sealings (Types S 4 5 Fig 31) Queen JIute~nuya I jar-label (Type 64 Fig 7) Queer1 Tiy I jar-label (Type 98 Fig 8) numerous brick

stimys (Types 111 IT Fig 30) 32 ring bezels (Types R 12-16 Fig 34) 2 scarabs (p 233 and n 419) 1 kohl-tube and 2 rase fragment^ (Fig 35 d q r)

Tlic Kings (Great) Wife (=T iy ) 26 jar-labels (Types 7 18 94 129 147 172 207 Figs 4 8 10 11 1314) 1jar-sealing (Tgt-pe 0 Fig 26)

Queen Sitarniln 51 jar-labels (Types 94-97 112 113 137 139 Figs8911) 2 ring bezels (Type R 17 Fig 34)

Princess Henettoneb Rlentioned on a sandstone stela (Figs 37 bot-tom 39 3)

Irince Arnenhotep (=Amenliotep IV ) 1 jar-sealing (Type KK Fig 27) ilmenhotep IV (ilkhenaten) 3 document-sealings (Types S 97 120 124 Fig

33) 1 ring bezel (Type H 18 Fig 34) Smenklikar 2 ring bezels (Types R 19 20 Fig 34) Tutcankhnmtin I ring bezel (Type R 21 Fig 34) (JueenAnkhesenamOn (CZrlkhesenpatten) 1 document-sealing (Type P 125 Fig 33) 1 ring

bezel (Type R 22 Fig 34) Horelnlieb 1 fragment of sandstone doorjamb (Fig 37 1q1-

per right)

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4s Hayes JSES VII 1-10 (see P I I 11 I artd 3 ) 99 Lansirig o p ci t p 12 Pusener in v a n cle TValle L a T r a n s m i e s i o r ~ des f(+tes 1itttraires Egypt iens pp 41-50

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FIG 36-Statue and door-frame fragments from the Temple of Amtin in the Palace of Amen- hotep 111

I

FIG 37-Insrribed fragir~ents of plaster and sandstone from the Palace of ~menhott~) 111

FIG 38 -Offering tables

H A N D - C O P I E S A N D O S T R A K A

three n f r - ~ i g n s ~ ~ ~ in the other (b) fol- lowed by the epithet [beloved of] Amen- It Lord of Heaven

The prenomen of Amenhotep 111 (Kebmac[rEc]) appears in the openwork design of a handsome but unfortunately fragmentary bracelet of bright-blue fai- ence (r)

The lo]-er part of a kohl-tube of yellow faience with the inscriptions encrusted in deep-purplish-blue glaze (d) bears the cartouche of Queen Tiy and the wish -lay she live Fragments of t xo similar tubes in white faience (j)and pale-green faience ( k ) were inscribed also in dark blue n-ith the titles and name of the king The Good God Lord of the Two Lands NebmacrEc [given] life43a

-4 white faience lotus-petal pendant (f)439 is tipped with a blob of yellow glaze and adorned in dark-blue glaze with the prenomen-cartouche of Amenhotep I11 surmountetl by the solar disk (red) and double plume Part of the same cartouche without the plumes appears in dark blue on a fragment of a molded lotus-flower ornament of pale green and white fay- ence ( h ) 440

The most interesting of the vase frag- ments is a small piece from the side of a blue fafence goblet (g) engraved on the exterior with part of a Scd-festival scene441 At the right the king appears heated in a pavillion wearing the Crown of Lon-er Egypt and holding in his hands the crook and flail At the left above

4 1 r Cf Hall op c i t No 2880 Daressy Fouil lrs No 24298 4 Petrie S i x T p n ~ p l e s P1 V 11 The ud3t-eye alone appears on most of the examples cited above in n 435 The design shown in Fig 34 is repeated on the other side of the throw-stick in this case however w-ith the throne-name of the king (NebmacrGc) The fragment was found by Lansing during the season of 1917-18 in a house south of the Temple of Aman

4 3 8 A third example in green faience (MMA Acc No 11215493) preserves a minute portion of the same inscription

4 3 9 Cf A n ~ a r n a P1 XX Citw I I P1 XXSVI 1 2

4 4 0 Cf i n ~ a r n o P1 XIX C i t y 1 1 P1 XXXVI 1 2

an arm holding the symbol of (many years and having suspended from it one or more related symbols can be made out the lower part of the cnrtouche with the name ([Amen]hotep Ruler of Thebes

A fragmentary vase of white faience (e) and another of yellow faience (not

both decorated and inscribed in dark blue preserve on their sides parts of a rectangular panel with the names and titles of the king The Good God Neb- macrF the Son of RElt Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given [life] forever and por- tions of the kings cartouches appear on fragments of three blue faience dishes -(1 0 and p) and on a segment of a white faience jar-lid (m)Pieces of a jar of blue faience (y) and a saucer of gray fai-ence (r)444 carry the cartouche of Queen Tiy in the first instance accompanying that of the king A small globular vase of pale-green paste represented by the frag- ment (11)) had around its middle an in- cised band of hieroglyphs of which there remain only the words stability well-being and jo[y] -obviously from a long royal titulary In addition there are fragments of two little vases of purple and turquoise-blue n-ith engraved panels of inscription similar to that of the faience vase ( e )

The remaining item shown in Figure 35 (i) is a thin strip of ebony inlay prob- ably from a box or a piece of furniture I ts incised inscription once filled with yellow paint comprises the nbty-name of

4 4 1 I have found no exact parallel to the composi- tion seen here but the elements occur in numerorls representations of this stage of the Sed-festival eg Gayet Temple de Louror P1 LXXI Big 177 ( = L U 111 P1 74 d l Winlock J E B IV P1 IV Chevrier A n n Ser t XLVII 170 P1 XXVI Bisson do la Roque Fouil les I n s t f r Ca i re VIII P1 VII I See also Frankfort K i n g s h i p and the Gods chap vi

4 4 31x1-4 BCc NO11215494 d 4 3 Dark-blue faIence with light-blue lueroglyphs 4 4 4 The inscription of ( q ) is dark blue that of ( r ) is

white 4 d j AIJIA Acc Xos 11215505 and 507

Amenhotep I11 (the T~vo-Goddesses Establisher-of-Laws- (and-)Pacifier-of-the- T ~ v o - L a n d s ) ~ ~ ~followed by the title the Good God which normally precedes the throne-name of the king

VIII MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION8

Probably never very numerous the in- scriptions of this class which have been re- covered from the scanty and thoroughly plundered ruins of the palace buildings are few in number and for the most part ex- tremely fragmentary The majority of them come from the Temple of Amfin which though built of brick like the rest of the palace was provided with inscribed doorframes offering tables stelae and statues of stone and included several rooms the I-alls of which Tvere adorned with moldings ornamental patterns and inscriptions of gilded ~vood and plaster inlaid with blue faience tiles

Since all but one of the pieces of stone plaster and tilework bearing these in-scriptions were reburied at Thehes before the conclusion of the 31useum1s escava- tions in 1920 our knowledge of them is derived almost entirely from photographs sketches hand copies and notes made in the field by Winlock White and Lansing and it is these records now in New York which have provided the illustrations of Figures 36-39 and which form the basis of the discussion to follo~v Sever for ex- ample having seen the fragments of in- scribed offering tables from the palaces rlemple of Amiin I have in Figure 38 simply reprduced a photograph of Lan- sings original pencil sketches of these fragments rearranged and relabeled but otherwise untouched

In the Palace of the King the painted plaster ceiling of the pharaohs bedcham- her had heen decorated down its middle with a succession of great spread vul- t u r e ~ ~ ~ under the wings of each of which

4 4 6 Gauthier 1irre d e ro i i 11 306 ff

were painted in large detailed hieroglyphs the titles and names of Amenhotep 111 Enough fragments of fallen plaster were foundon the floor of the ruined chamber to restore one pair of the inscriptions and a hand copy of these (taken from Win- locks notes for February 1 1911) is given at the top of Figure 39 (1)On the right under the left wing of the vulture one read The Good God Lord of the TWO Lands Nebmacrec Chosen of Rec given life and on the left separated from the foregoing by the legs and tail of the bird The Son of Re Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given life The nomen-cartouche in the latter inscription had been painted over with ~vhitewash-evidently by fol-

lowers of the Aten desirous of obliterating the name of Amiin wherever it occurred448 These appear to have been the only monu- mental inscriptions found by the Muse- ums expedition anywhere in the palace area outside of the inclosure of the Temple of A m i ~ n ~ ~ ~

One of the most interesting pieces of stone discovered in the temple was part of the tip of the plumed headdress of a colossal statue of the god Amfin in dark- gray porphyritic d i ~ r i t e ~ ~ (Fig 36 top) The width of the remaining plume (23 cm) compared with the correspond- ing measurement on the well-known group of- Amiin and Tutcankhamiin in the Louvre451 indicates that the Xllalkata

44 Winlock Bull MMA 1912 p 186 See also Tytus P r e l i m i n a r R e p o r t pp 18 20 and cf Capart L S r t amp g y p t i e n I PI 147 Prisse dnvennes IIilttuirc iie l ar t i g y p t i e n ttins I trchitecture PI [I

4 s Cf Tytus o p r i t p 10

4 9 See however i b id pp 10 25

450 A stone often and (I am told) incorrectly tle- scribed as black granite The fragment which is 46 cm in height and 30 cm in width was found by Lansing during the season of 1916-17 near the cen- tral portion of the temple proper Pieces of probably the same statue (described as unimportant frag-ments of a black granite statue) were found by White during the preceding season in the same general locality

4 5 1 Benedite M o n u m e n t s P io t S S I V 47-68 See also E n c y r l o p P d i e p h o t o g r a p h i y u r d e l a r t 1 L e ~ l l u s i e d u L o u v r e pp 78-79

statue when complete n-as 440 meters or ahout fourteen ant1 a half feet in height A s in the Louvre group the got1 as pro)- ably represented seated on a throne Ivith perhaps a smaller figure of the king stand- ing or kneeling before him452 Admirably carved and beautifully finished the statue may have been the temples principal cult image though its huge size tends to mili- tate against this-53 I ts back pilaster car- ried three vertical coliimns of incised hieroglyphic inscriptions of which are pre-

served the groups [Q] 1

r r-hat the tops of the sec-

ond and third columns respectively (Fig 36 upper right)

A fragment of sandstone door-lintel (Fig 36 lower left) found lying on the sur- face of the ground inside the temple in- losu sure^^^ was photographed by Evelyn FThite during the season of 1914-15 The piece measures 70 cm in length and 83 cm in height the lintel having been originally about 107 cm high-a sizable block of stone Its decoration lightly incised anti somewhat carelessly executed was whol- ly conventional a winged suns disk and helon- it two horizontal lines of inscrip tion with the titles and names of Amen- hotep III05 The kings prenomen [Neb]- ma [re ] with the epithet Heir of Re ( i l l s - f R-) included in the cartouche is fairly c ~ m m o n ~ occurring for example on a piece of re-used() sandstone relief found in the temple of Eye and IIorem- heb14j7which lies about a kilometer to the north of the palace area The tops of the

signs 18 a t its extreme left end are all

3 See Varille K a r n a k I 8-9 PI X V 4 5 3 See Holscher hxcavatzon o l f e d z n ~ f Hahu

IIT 26 154 White Bul l f~f-l1915 p 256 Lansing Bull

1fMd Alarch 1918 Supp lement p 8 4 2 5 Cf Varille K a r n a k I PI XII 17 456 Gauthier Lzvre des roiu 11 316 X X I X 317

SSS318 X S X I V 4 5 7 Hiilscher Excanalion o Medinet Habu 11 101

PI 43 n

that remain of the second line of inscrip- tion

A pair of fragmentary sandst onc tloor- jaml)s (Fig 36 lower right) though similar in style are smaller in scale than the lintel measuring only 20 cm in width the right jamb being preserved to a height of 70 cm They are from Lansings excavations of 1916-17 in the templearea Each evidently bore one of the names of Amenhotep 111 f ollo~r-ed by the expressions beloved of such-and-such a divinity and given life like RP forever Flre may guess that on the left jamb the deity referred to was Amen-Re [Lord of] Heaven and what remains of the signs a t the top of the frag- ment of the right jamb suggests the name of the goddess Shesmet (Ssmtt)45~luch more interesting than the principal in-scriptions are the tu-o small lines of text written near the bottom of the right jamb and given in hand copy in Figure 39 2 These inform us that the doorway or the structure to which it belonged was made under the direction of the Treasurer of the King of Lower Egypt the StolistGq of 3Iin-Amfin the Fourth Prophet of Amiin Simtit the justified

A prominent member of the hierarchy of hmiin Simiit is named as Fourth Prophet of the god in a statue inscription in Brussels together n-ith his three superi- ors the First Prophet Bleryptah the Second Prophet (and brother-in-law of the king) ltAnen and the Third Prophet Amenemhet460 Since the inscription re-ferred to is dated to Year 20 of Amenho- tep I11 and the chapel of Amiin in the Jfalkata palace was probably built for the celebration of the kings second Sed-

0 W b IT538 Budge Dic t ionary p 753 Gard O n 11 125

4 5 9 S m See Grdseloff A n n Serl XLITI 357 f f The title Stolist of AIin-ArnGn was borne in the Nineteenth Dynasty by IEhaCeniwast a so11 of the High Priest of B m h Wepwawetnlose (Lefebvre Histoire des yrands pramptres c l i ln~o7t p 240)

460 Capart and Spiegelberg -4 n 71 Sac A r eh d e Brurel les XVI 167 Fig 2

festival in Year 34461 it mould appear that Simtit held the rank of Fourth Prophet for about fourteen years462 Before the end of his career he was elevated to the grade of Second Prophet of Amiin and is so re- ferred to on toTo statues3 and two shawnbty-figure~~~4in the Cairo Museum He appears in the reliefs of the temple at Soleb participating in the celebration of Amenhotep 111s first Heb-~ed~ and lvas the owner of a decorated tomb on the Dira abul Naga at ThebesG6 On one of his statues in Cairo467 he bears the title First Kings Son of Amiin and the presence of his name on a doorway of one of the kings temples suggests that like ane en he -as related to Amenh~t~ep I11 either by blood or by marriage The fact that he was evi- dently in charge of what during the reign of Amenhotep I11 must have been the fourth most important of tmhe Theban temples of Amtin further suggests that there oras some sort of nominal division of responsibility between the four prophets of the god-the High Priest presiding at Karnak and delegating the immediate supervision of the Luxor temple the kings mortuary temple and the Malkata

401 See above p 85

402 Possibly less Sirniit may have received his ap- pointment as Fourth Prophet in Year 20 itself and the Malkata temple may have been built and inscribed a year or two before the celebration of the second Heb-sed During the reigns of Sethy I and Ramesses 11 Bakenkhonsu who eventually became High Priest of Amfin served twelve years as a Father of the God flf- teen years as Third Prophet and twelve years as Sec- ond Prophet (Lefebvre Hzstozre des g r a n d s p r l t r r s p 128)

463 Borchardt S t a t u e n t l nd S ta tue t t en 111161 Ko 932 IV 60 IGo 1107

4 6 4 Mariette Cat yl n des m o n u m e n t s d d b y d o s Nos 389 and 3 9 0 incorrectly dated by SIariette (and Lefebvre o p czt p 24 K O 1) to the late Middle K~ngdom The two Simiits listed by Lefebvre ( l ac czt IGos 1 and 9) are clearly one and the same man

465 Lepsius D e n k m u l e r 111PI 84 b

468 Porter-Sfoss T o p B i b l I 187 1 Varille A n n Seru S L 642 n 3

4 6 7 No 1107 See above n 483

temple to the Second Third and Fourth Prophets respectively

Similt may also have been the o-ner of a rough little sandstone stela a few bat- tered fragments of 11-hich mere recovered by Lansing from the ruins of the temple proper and are shown in the photograph at the bottom of Figure 37 A rectangular slab something over 45 cm in thickness the stela Ivas once painted white with blue hieroglyphs and red dividing lines the latter spaced on the average 3 em apart Preserved are parts of a seven-line inscription surmounting an incised design of indeterminate nature and comprising portions of the autobiography of a priest or temple official of Amtin With the aid of Lansings hand copy a revised version of which is given in Figure 39 (3) we can make out the following phrases

(1) the Prince of Princes468 [intro]ducetl me into the House of Amfin

(2) for his469 son Nehmacrei who be- longs to

(3) - V amp [ ~ ] W ( )a long lifetime as king living

(4) life() great of victories ( 5 ) Went [dou~n] the Kings [Daughter]

HenettonehQ in front of (6) great of hirn who causes rnonu-

ment which is (7) in the place the gods words which

he recited Mention has already been made of the

tile and gilded plaster decoration of a row

6 Probably Amenhotep 111 (see Varille A n n Sera XXXIII 93-94 XXXIV 13-16 Capart C h r o n d Eq X 322-24 Gauthier Liare des ro i s 11 315 XXV 316 XXVIII) though the epithet F k l h g i w was current before his time being borne for example by Amenhotep I1on his great quartzite stela from Sakkiireh (1 34 Badaw-i A n n S e r e XLII 23 P1 I)

468 ilmiins There is however a bare possibility that the pronoun and the epithet Prince of Princes in the preceding line refer to Thutmose IV

4 7 0 Amenhotep 111ssecond eldest daughter and the senior princess following Sitamiins elevation to the status of queen See Gauthier o p ci t 11 341-42 Hayes Bull M M d 1948 pp 272 276-78

horizon4 M a y he he given4 life stability md well-being [forever]

Thc expression Offering-of-the-1lt001 (wdn 11 tp-ht) leaves little room for doubt that these small stone basins formed part of the furnishings of an elevated open-air sanctuary of the type dedicated to the worship of the sun-god (Rec of the Roof479 and known from texts of the Twentieth Dynasty and later times to have been called the House of RP of the Roof of the House of Amtin4xo Such a sanctuary existed in the great temple a t Karnak as early as the reign of Thut-mose III481and the presence of one in so small and unimportant a temple as that of the Llalkata palace indicates how prevalent shrines of this type must have been in the Amtin temples of the period

Since the function of our offering tables was presumably to receive libations and gifts of food presented to the sun-god it seems frivolous to suggest that they I-ould also have been useful for catching the fresh myrrh and fresh incense which Heaven in tn70 Eighteenth Dynasty in- scriptions is said to rain down upon the roofs of royal temples482

A glance a t the plan of the northern- most quarter of the palace published by

in 1918shows that the Temple

4 7 7 R-m](~c)[(n)RCwbnm iht ] Cf Aeg Inschr Brr- lin 11182No 7290 For Rec wenlightperhaps sub- stitute Aten (the disk of the sun not the god of Amarna) as in Berlin 7274 and 7271 (deg Inschr 11 154 and 105)

[I di] nb etc Cf Cairo 23040 23073 (Ka-mal op cit)

4 7 9 R tp-hl or R m tp-ht (Re in the Roof) a form of the god worshiped as early as the reigu of Kir~g Sahurec of the Fifth Dynasty and referred to in two places on the Palermo Stoue (verso 3 1 and 4 3 Schafer Ein Bruchstuck altagyptischer Annalen pp 36 and 39)

4 8 Pr-RC tp-ht Pr-Imn See the references giveu in (iard On 11 216 under -4 462 and in Kees Orirntalia XVIII 436-30

Icees op cit pp 427-42

48 Spiegelberg 24~LIII 99

fl Op cil p 9

of Amtin properly speaking occupied only the c+entral section of a long ljuiltiing cstcntling across the tcrracactl 11cst eritl of a vast ~valletl inclosure (see nlho Pig 1 above) The northern lying of this build- ing appears to have been given over to offices and magazines-probably for the contributions to the kings second Neb-scd -but the richly decorated rooms at its southern end were certainly intended for some less utilitarian purpose and its southeast corner was taken up by a luxuri- ously appointed dwelling house or small palace On the north sitie of the main in- closure are the remains of a large multi- piered huilding nhich is believed to have been the kings Srd-festival anti adjoining this on the west a succession of courts and smaller buildings To the south and east of the inclosure are the ruins of other structures including several large and handsome villas There is every probability that the inclosure once con-tained a big rectangular pool of r ~ - a t e r ~ ~ ~ fed perhaps from the principal palace lake the present-day Birket IIabu

Some distance south of the main city at Tell el hmarna there is a generally similar architectural layout consisting of two big rectangular inclosures lying side by side and containing in addition to pools villas magazines and other build- ings a small temple This temple was presumably dedicated to the Aten and the whole complex was called the m3rur or pleasure-precinct() of the Aten- usually referred to by modern ~vriters simply as ilIaru-hten486

Like Pr-hcy the name nhich he used

4 See above p 85

A usual feature of the larger ancient Egyptian courtyards and one which would explain the complete absence of building remains in the central portion of this inclosure

8 8 City I chap v Pls S X I X fl The riame XIarll- 4teuW and the word m3ria are discussed by Ciu11n 011 pp 133-58

the and its wine is (even) more plentifulm3 than for his principal palace a t A m a r ~ ~ a ~ ~ ~ term m3rw was probably derived by Akhenaten from some portion of his fathers palace at Thebes where how- ever the full name ~vould in all likelihood have been the m3rw of Amiin Granted that a part of the Theban palace was so named n-e can hardly doubt that the part in question was the isolated northern quarter with the temple and inclosure of Amiin

Fortunately there is inscriptional evi- dence to show that hmenhotep I11actual-ly did build a Maru-Amtin across the river from Luxor in the general locality -

occupied by the illalkata temple inclo- sure This evidence is found in lines 12-14 of the kings well-known granite stela in C a i r~ ~here following descriptions of the mortuary temple in western Thebes and the temple a t Luxor there appears the follo~i-ing account of a hitherto un-identified structure

Ariotller nlonulrie~it which His Majesty 111tde for his father Amfin making for him a

r r i l n i (gt-) as an offering to the god -I n

oppositeg Soutllern a place ofO ~ e t ~ ~ ~ arnusernent for my Father in his goodly festi- va l (~ ) In it I erected a great templeM1 (which is) like the Sun (Rc)when it appears in glory on the horizon and ~vhich is planted with all (kinds of) flowers Fair is the Primaeval Water (inla) which ii in its lake at every season4g2

8 See above pp 178 and 182

1x5 Ko 34025 See Lacau Stkles ilu Touuel E m p i r e 11 S V I The text as restored by Sethy I contains a t~rirnber of iniswritings which are emended by Spiegel- berg in R e c l r a a S X 4CL43 (see esp p 41 UII 5-9)

l a gHl-I lr -n before the face of facing-here I believe in the sense of directly across (the iVile) from Compare the common expression for west- err1 Thebes Bft-l~in b s Opposite-her-Lord ( I i7b 111 276 b)

The temple of Luxor On a map of Thebes a line drau-n from the sanctuary of the Lrixor temple a r ~ d projected westward a t right angles to the corirse of the river passes just to the north of the palace area

(I t -nr r t a stock expression uot really in- dicative of the actual size of the temple which irl this case happeus to have bee11 relatively small

(its) water-like the pouring forth of the Inun- dation (Hpy)a4 created by the Lord of Eter- nity Numerous are the possessions of the place The taxes of every country are received and plentiful tribute is brought before my Father being the presentations of all lands

Aside from the comments made in the footnotes there seems to be nothing which needs to be added to this description of what would appear to have been the northern quarter of the Malkata palace except to note that for an inscription of its type and period it is unusually accurate and complete

IX MISCELLANEOUS INSCRIPTIONS

Among the few inscribed objects found in the ruins of the palace which do not belong to one of the eight categories al- ready discussed were two fragments of a name-stone of H a t ~ h e p s u t ~ ~ j picked up by Lansing in November 1917 in the vil- lage area to the n-est of the North Pa1ace here can be little doubt that the stone

came originally from the temple of Hat- shepsut and Thutmose I11 at Medinet Habu where numerous examples of the same type have been found4 and that it had wandered thence into the palace area at a relatively recent date

Mixed in with the fragments of in-scribed jars from the Palace of the King were two potsherds with portions of Eighteenth Dynasty hieratic copies of two famous literary texts the Instruction of hmenemhet I (Fig 39 4)495 and a n-ell-

4 0 2 Thanks u e may suppose to the channel con- necting the Uirket Habri with the Nile (see Engelbach and 12facaldin B u l l rle I I n s t rlampgple XS52)

4 9 3 See the second column of the table of Fig 16 above

4 0 1 See De Brick On the 3Ieaning of the Name fPpj Orzentalza S e e r l a n d z c a 1049 pp 1-22

6 Ou stones of this type see my O s t r a k a a n d Tame- S t o n r s pp 45-46

4 9 6 See eg Holscher E r c a c a t i o n o M e d i n e t I I a b u 1132 Figs 27 28

0 Small portions of the begitlr~irlg of the text (Pap Sallier 11 1-2) are preserved

242 JOURNAL S~UDIESOF NEAREASTERK

known model letter of the earlier Middle Iiingdom (Fig 39 5)498

MTith the exception of some pieces of in- scribed alabaster vases from the store- rooms of the Temple of Amdn499 of xvhich unhappily I can find no copies or photo- graphs this completes the corpus of Eighteenth Dynasty inscriptions recov-erecl from the palace by the Metropolitan 3luseums espedibion A few Late Dynas- tic burials with inscribed coffins some Demotic ostraka and half a dozen in- scribed amphorae of the Greco-Roman Period were also found but these have no bearing on the history of the Malkata as

a royal residence-a history which seems to have ended abruptly vith the rise of the Nineteenth Dynasty

Exclusive of Amenhotep I11 himself thirteen royal persons are mentioned on inscribed objects found within the con- fines of the Malkata palace Though the names of some of these persons appear on objects or in contests of no particular his- torical significance it seems desirable nevertheless to list them all in chronologi- cal order accompanied by indications of the types and quantities of the inscrip- tions in which they occur

Hatshepsut I name-stone probably from rtledinet Habu Thutmose 111 4 document-sealings (Types S 1 2 Fig 31) 4

scarabs (Types R 24-27 Fig 34) Amenliotep 11 2 document-sealings (Type S 3 Fig 31) Tllutnlose I V 9 jar-labels (Types 31 32 45 Figs 5 t i ) 2 docu-

ment-sealings (Types S 4 5 Fig 31) Queen JIute~nuya I jar-label (Type 64 Fig 7) Queer1 Tiy I jar-label (Type 98 Fig 8) numerous brick

stimys (Types 111 IT Fig 30) 32 ring bezels (Types R 12-16 Fig 34) 2 scarabs (p 233 and n 419) 1 kohl-tube and 2 rase fragment^ (Fig 35 d q r)

Tlic Kings (Great) Wife (=T iy ) 26 jar-labels (Types 7 18 94 129 147 172 207 Figs 4 8 10 11 1314) 1jar-sealing (Tgt-pe 0 Fig 26)

Queen Sitarniln 51 jar-labels (Types 94-97 112 113 137 139 Figs8911) 2 ring bezels (Type R 17 Fig 34)

Princess Henettoneb Rlentioned on a sandstone stela (Figs 37 bot-tom 39 3)

Irince Arnenhotep (=Amenliotep IV ) 1 jar-sealing (Type KK Fig 27) ilmenhotep IV (ilkhenaten) 3 document-sealings (Types S 97 120 124 Fig

33) 1 ring bezel (Type H 18 Fig 34) Smenklikar 2 ring bezels (Types R 19 20 Fig 34) Tutcankhnmtin I ring bezel (Type R 21 Fig 34) (JueenAnkhesenamOn (CZrlkhesenpatten) 1 document-sealing (Type P 125 Fig 33) 1 ring

bezel (Type R 22 Fig 34) Horelnlieb 1 fragment of sandstone doorjamb (Fig 37 1q1-

per right)

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FIG 37-Insrribed fragir~ents of plaster and sandstone from the Palace of ~menhott~) 111

FIG 38 -Offering tables

H A N D - C O P I E S A N D O S T R A K A

three n f r - ~ i g n s ~ ~ ~ in the other (b) fol- lowed by the epithet [beloved of] Amen- It Lord of Heaven

The prenomen of Amenhotep 111 (Kebmac[rEc]) appears in the openwork design of a handsome but unfortunately fragmentary bracelet of bright-blue fai- ence (r)

The lo]-er part of a kohl-tube of yellow faience with the inscriptions encrusted in deep-purplish-blue glaze (d) bears the cartouche of Queen Tiy and the wish -lay she live Fragments of t xo similar tubes in white faience (j)and pale-green faience ( k ) were inscribed also in dark blue n-ith the titles and name of the king The Good God Lord of the Two Lands NebmacrEc [given] life43a

-4 white faience lotus-petal pendant (f)439 is tipped with a blob of yellow glaze and adorned in dark-blue glaze with the prenomen-cartouche of Amenhotep I11 surmountetl by the solar disk (red) and double plume Part of the same cartouche without the plumes appears in dark blue on a fragment of a molded lotus-flower ornament of pale green and white fay- ence ( h ) 440

The most interesting of the vase frag- ments is a small piece from the side of a blue fafence goblet (g) engraved on the exterior with part of a Scd-festival scene441 At the right the king appears heated in a pavillion wearing the Crown of Lon-er Egypt and holding in his hands the crook and flail At the left above

4 1 r Cf Hall op c i t No 2880 Daressy Fouil lrs No 24298 4 Petrie S i x T p n ~ p l e s P1 V 11 The ud3t-eye alone appears on most of the examples cited above in n 435 The design shown in Fig 34 is repeated on the other side of the throw-stick in this case however w-ith the throne-name of the king (NebmacrGc) The fragment was found by Lansing during the season of 1917-18 in a house south of the Temple of Aman

4 3 8 A third example in green faience (MMA Acc No 11215493) preserves a minute portion of the same inscription

4 3 9 Cf A n ~ a r n a P1 XX Citw I I P1 XXSVI 1 2

4 4 0 Cf i n ~ a r n o P1 XIX C i t y 1 1 P1 XXXVI 1 2

an arm holding the symbol of (many years and having suspended from it one or more related symbols can be made out the lower part of the cnrtouche with the name ([Amen]hotep Ruler of Thebes

A fragmentary vase of white faience (e) and another of yellow faience (not

both decorated and inscribed in dark blue preserve on their sides parts of a rectangular panel with the names and titles of the king The Good God Neb- macrF the Son of RElt Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given [life] forever and por- tions of the kings cartouches appear on fragments of three blue faience dishes -(1 0 and p) and on a segment of a white faience jar-lid (m)Pieces of a jar of blue faience (y) and a saucer of gray fai-ence (r)444 carry the cartouche of Queen Tiy in the first instance accompanying that of the king A small globular vase of pale-green paste represented by the frag- ment (11)) had around its middle an in- cised band of hieroglyphs of which there remain only the words stability well-being and jo[y] -obviously from a long royal titulary In addition there are fragments of two little vases of purple and turquoise-blue n-ith engraved panels of inscription similar to that of the faience vase ( e )

The remaining item shown in Figure 35 (i) is a thin strip of ebony inlay prob- ably from a box or a piece of furniture I ts incised inscription once filled with yellow paint comprises the nbty-name of

4 4 1 I have found no exact parallel to the composi- tion seen here but the elements occur in numerorls representations of this stage of the Sed-festival eg Gayet Temple de Louror P1 LXXI Big 177 ( = L U 111 P1 74 d l Winlock J E B IV P1 IV Chevrier A n n Ser t XLVII 170 P1 XXVI Bisson do la Roque Fouil les I n s t f r Ca i re VIII P1 VII I See also Frankfort K i n g s h i p and the Gods chap vi

4 4 31x1-4 BCc NO11215494 d 4 3 Dark-blue faIence with light-blue lueroglyphs 4 4 4 The inscription of ( q ) is dark blue that of ( r ) is

white 4 d j AIJIA Acc Xos 11215505 and 507

Amenhotep I11 (the T~vo-Goddesses Establisher-of-Laws- (and-)Pacifier-of-the- T ~ v o - L a n d s ) ~ ~ ~followed by the title the Good God which normally precedes the throne-name of the king

VIII MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION8

Probably never very numerous the in- scriptions of this class which have been re- covered from the scanty and thoroughly plundered ruins of the palace buildings are few in number and for the most part ex- tremely fragmentary The majority of them come from the Temple of Amfin which though built of brick like the rest of the palace was provided with inscribed doorframes offering tables stelae and statues of stone and included several rooms the I-alls of which Tvere adorned with moldings ornamental patterns and inscriptions of gilded ~vood and plaster inlaid with blue faience tiles

Since all but one of the pieces of stone plaster and tilework bearing these in-scriptions were reburied at Thehes before the conclusion of the 31useum1s escava- tions in 1920 our knowledge of them is derived almost entirely from photographs sketches hand copies and notes made in the field by Winlock White and Lansing and it is these records now in New York which have provided the illustrations of Figures 36-39 and which form the basis of the discussion to follo~v Sever for ex- ample having seen the fragments of in- scribed offering tables from the palaces rlemple of Amiin I have in Figure 38 simply reprduced a photograph of Lan- sings original pencil sketches of these fragments rearranged and relabeled but otherwise untouched

In the Palace of the King the painted plaster ceiling of the pharaohs bedcham- her had heen decorated down its middle with a succession of great spread vul- t u r e ~ ~ ~ under the wings of each of which

4 4 6 Gauthier 1irre d e ro i i 11 306 ff

were painted in large detailed hieroglyphs the titles and names of Amenhotep 111 Enough fragments of fallen plaster were foundon the floor of the ruined chamber to restore one pair of the inscriptions and a hand copy of these (taken from Win- locks notes for February 1 1911) is given at the top of Figure 39 (1)On the right under the left wing of the vulture one read The Good God Lord of the TWO Lands Nebmacrec Chosen of Rec given life and on the left separated from the foregoing by the legs and tail of the bird The Son of Re Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given life The nomen-cartouche in the latter inscription had been painted over with ~vhitewash-evidently by fol-

lowers of the Aten desirous of obliterating the name of Amiin wherever it occurred448 These appear to have been the only monu- mental inscriptions found by the Muse- ums expedition anywhere in the palace area outside of the inclosure of the Temple of A m i ~ n ~ ~ ~

One of the most interesting pieces of stone discovered in the temple was part of the tip of the plumed headdress of a colossal statue of the god Amfin in dark- gray porphyritic d i ~ r i t e ~ ~ (Fig 36 top) The width of the remaining plume (23 cm) compared with the correspond- ing measurement on the well-known group of- Amiin and Tutcankhamiin in the Louvre451 indicates that the Xllalkata

44 Winlock Bull MMA 1912 p 186 See also Tytus P r e l i m i n a r R e p o r t pp 18 20 and cf Capart L S r t amp g y p t i e n I PI 147 Prisse dnvennes IIilttuirc iie l ar t i g y p t i e n ttins I trchitecture PI [I

4 s Cf Tytus o p r i t p 10

4 9 See however i b id pp 10 25

450 A stone often and (I am told) incorrectly tle- scribed as black granite The fragment which is 46 cm in height and 30 cm in width was found by Lansing during the season of 1916-17 near the cen- tral portion of the temple proper Pieces of probably the same statue (described as unimportant frag-ments of a black granite statue) were found by White during the preceding season in the same general locality

4 5 1 Benedite M o n u m e n t s P io t S S I V 47-68 See also E n c y r l o p P d i e p h o t o g r a p h i y u r d e l a r t 1 L e ~ l l u s i e d u L o u v r e pp 78-79

statue when complete n-as 440 meters or ahout fourteen ant1 a half feet in height A s in the Louvre group the got1 as pro)- ably represented seated on a throne Ivith perhaps a smaller figure of the king stand- ing or kneeling before him452 Admirably carved and beautifully finished the statue may have been the temples principal cult image though its huge size tends to mili- tate against this-53 I ts back pilaster car- ried three vertical coliimns of incised hieroglyphic inscriptions of which are pre-

served the groups [Q] 1

r r-hat the tops of the sec-

ond and third columns respectively (Fig 36 upper right)

A fragment of sandstone door-lintel (Fig 36 lower left) found lying on the sur- face of the ground inside the temple in- losu sure^^^ was photographed by Evelyn FThite during the season of 1914-15 The piece measures 70 cm in length and 83 cm in height the lintel having been originally about 107 cm high-a sizable block of stone Its decoration lightly incised anti somewhat carelessly executed was whol- ly conventional a winged suns disk and helon- it two horizontal lines of inscrip tion with the titles and names of Amen- hotep III05 The kings prenomen [Neb]- ma [re ] with the epithet Heir of Re ( i l l s - f R-) included in the cartouche is fairly c ~ m m o n ~ occurring for example on a piece of re-used() sandstone relief found in the temple of Eye and IIorem- heb14j7which lies about a kilometer to the north of the palace area The tops of the

signs 18 a t its extreme left end are all

3 See Varille K a r n a k I 8-9 PI X V 4 5 3 See Holscher hxcavatzon o l f e d z n ~ f Hahu

IIT 26 154 White Bul l f~f-l1915 p 256 Lansing Bull

1fMd Alarch 1918 Supp lement p 8 4 2 5 Cf Varille K a r n a k I PI XII 17 456 Gauthier Lzvre des roiu 11 316 X X I X 317

SSS318 X S X I V 4 5 7 Hiilscher Excanalion o Medinet Habu 11 101

PI 43 n

that remain of the second line of inscrip- tion

A pair of fragmentary sandst onc tloor- jaml)s (Fig 36 lower right) though similar in style are smaller in scale than the lintel measuring only 20 cm in width the right jamb being preserved to a height of 70 cm They are from Lansings excavations of 1916-17 in the templearea Each evidently bore one of the names of Amenhotep 111 f ollo~r-ed by the expressions beloved of such-and-such a divinity and given life like RP forever Flre may guess that on the left jamb the deity referred to was Amen-Re [Lord of] Heaven and what remains of the signs a t the top of the frag- ment of the right jamb suggests the name of the goddess Shesmet (Ssmtt)45~luch more interesting than the principal in-scriptions are the tu-o small lines of text written near the bottom of the right jamb and given in hand copy in Figure 39 2 These inform us that the doorway or the structure to which it belonged was made under the direction of the Treasurer of the King of Lower Egypt the StolistGq of 3Iin-Amfin the Fourth Prophet of Amiin Simtit the justified

A prominent member of the hierarchy of hmiin Simiit is named as Fourth Prophet of the god in a statue inscription in Brussels together n-ith his three superi- ors the First Prophet Bleryptah the Second Prophet (and brother-in-law of the king) ltAnen and the Third Prophet Amenemhet460 Since the inscription re-ferred to is dated to Year 20 of Amenho- tep I11 and the chapel of Amiin in the Jfalkata palace was probably built for the celebration of the kings second Sed-

0 W b IT538 Budge Dic t ionary p 753 Gard O n 11 125

4 5 9 S m See Grdseloff A n n Serl XLITI 357 f f The title Stolist of AIin-ArnGn was borne in the Nineteenth Dynasty by IEhaCeniwast a so11 of the High Priest of B m h Wepwawetnlose (Lefebvre Histoire des yrands pramptres c l i ln~o7t p 240)

460 Capart and Spiegelberg -4 n 71 Sac A r eh d e Brurel les XVI 167 Fig 2

festival in Year 34461 it mould appear that Simtit held the rank of Fourth Prophet for about fourteen years462 Before the end of his career he was elevated to the grade of Second Prophet of Amiin and is so re- ferred to on toTo statues3 and two shawnbty-figure~~~4in the Cairo Museum He appears in the reliefs of the temple at Soleb participating in the celebration of Amenhotep 111s first Heb-~ed~ and lvas the owner of a decorated tomb on the Dira abul Naga at ThebesG6 On one of his statues in Cairo467 he bears the title First Kings Son of Amiin and the presence of his name on a doorway of one of the kings temples suggests that like ane en he -as related to Amenh~t~ep I11 either by blood or by marriage The fact that he was evi- dently in charge of what during the reign of Amenhotep I11 must have been the fourth most important of tmhe Theban temples of Amtin further suggests that there oras some sort of nominal division of responsibility between the four prophets of the god-the High Priest presiding at Karnak and delegating the immediate supervision of the Luxor temple the kings mortuary temple and the Malkata

401 See above p 85

402 Possibly less Sirniit may have received his ap- pointment as Fourth Prophet in Year 20 itself and the Malkata temple may have been built and inscribed a year or two before the celebration of the second Heb-sed During the reigns of Sethy I and Ramesses 11 Bakenkhonsu who eventually became High Priest of Amfin served twelve years as a Father of the God flf- teen years as Third Prophet and twelve years as Sec- ond Prophet (Lefebvre Hzstozre des g r a n d s p r l t r r s p 128)

463 Borchardt S t a t u e n t l nd S ta tue t t en 111161 Ko 932 IV 60 IGo 1107

4 6 4 Mariette Cat yl n des m o n u m e n t s d d b y d o s Nos 389 and 3 9 0 incorrectly dated by SIariette (and Lefebvre o p czt p 24 K O 1) to the late Middle K~ngdom The two Simiits listed by Lefebvre ( l ac czt IGos 1 and 9) are clearly one and the same man

465 Lepsius D e n k m u l e r 111PI 84 b

468 Porter-Sfoss T o p B i b l I 187 1 Varille A n n Seru S L 642 n 3

4 6 7 No 1107 See above n 483

temple to the Second Third and Fourth Prophets respectively

Similt may also have been the o-ner of a rough little sandstone stela a few bat- tered fragments of 11-hich mere recovered by Lansing from the ruins of the temple proper and are shown in the photograph at the bottom of Figure 37 A rectangular slab something over 45 cm in thickness the stela Ivas once painted white with blue hieroglyphs and red dividing lines the latter spaced on the average 3 em apart Preserved are parts of a seven-line inscription surmounting an incised design of indeterminate nature and comprising portions of the autobiography of a priest or temple official of Amtin With the aid of Lansings hand copy a revised version of which is given in Figure 39 (3) we can make out the following phrases

(1) the Prince of Princes468 [intro]ducetl me into the House of Amfin

(2) for his469 son Nehmacrei who be- longs to

(3) - V amp [ ~ ] W ( )a long lifetime as king living

(4) life() great of victories ( 5 ) Went [dou~n] the Kings [Daughter]

HenettonehQ in front of (6) great of hirn who causes rnonu-

ment which is (7) in the place the gods words which

he recited Mention has already been made of the

tile and gilded plaster decoration of a row

6 Probably Amenhotep 111 (see Varille A n n Sera XXXIII 93-94 XXXIV 13-16 Capart C h r o n d Eq X 322-24 Gauthier Liare des ro i s 11 315 XXV 316 XXVIII) though the epithet F k l h g i w was current before his time being borne for example by Amenhotep I1on his great quartzite stela from Sakkiireh (1 34 Badaw-i A n n S e r e XLII 23 P1 I)

468 ilmiins There is however a bare possibility that the pronoun and the epithet Prince of Princes in the preceding line refer to Thutmose IV

4 7 0 Amenhotep 111ssecond eldest daughter and the senior princess following Sitamiins elevation to the status of queen See Gauthier o p ci t 11 341-42 Hayes Bull M M d 1948 pp 272 276-78

horizon4 M a y he he given4 life stability md well-being [forever]

Thc expression Offering-of-the-1lt001 (wdn 11 tp-ht) leaves little room for doubt that these small stone basins formed part of the furnishings of an elevated open-air sanctuary of the type dedicated to the worship of the sun-god (Rec of the Roof479 and known from texts of the Twentieth Dynasty and later times to have been called the House of RP of the Roof of the House of Amtin4xo Such a sanctuary existed in the great temple a t Karnak as early as the reign of Thut-mose III481and the presence of one in so small and unimportant a temple as that of the Llalkata palace indicates how prevalent shrines of this type must have been in the Amtin temples of the period

Since the function of our offering tables was presumably to receive libations and gifts of food presented to the sun-god it seems frivolous to suggest that they I-ould also have been useful for catching the fresh myrrh and fresh incense which Heaven in tn70 Eighteenth Dynasty in- scriptions is said to rain down upon the roofs of royal temples482

A glance a t the plan of the northern- most quarter of the palace published by

in 1918shows that the Temple

4 7 7 R-m](~c)[(n)RCwbnm iht ] Cf Aeg Inschr Brr- lin 11182No 7290 For Rec wenlightperhaps sub- stitute Aten (the disk of the sun not the god of Amarna) as in Berlin 7274 and 7271 (deg Inschr 11 154 and 105)

[I di] nb etc Cf Cairo 23040 23073 (Ka-mal op cit)

4 7 9 R tp-hl or R m tp-ht (Re in the Roof) a form of the god worshiped as early as the reigu of Kir~g Sahurec of the Fifth Dynasty and referred to in two places on the Palermo Stoue (verso 3 1 and 4 3 Schafer Ein Bruchstuck altagyptischer Annalen pp 36 and 39)

4 8 Pr-RC tp-ht Pr-Imn See the references giveu in (iard On 11 216 under -4 462 and in Kees Orirntalia XVIII 436-30

Icees op cit pp 427-42

48 Spiegelberg 24~LIII 99

fl Op cil p 9

of Amtin properly speaking occupied only the c+entral section of a long ljuiltiing cstcntling across the tcrracactl 11cst eritl of a vast ~valletl inclosure (see nlho Pig 1 above) The northern lying of this build- ing appears to have been given over to offices and magazines-probably for the contributions to the kings second Neb-scd -but the richly decorated rooms at its southern end were certainly intended for some less utilitarian purpose and its southeast corner was taken up by a luxuri- ously appointed dwelling house or small palace On the north sitie of the main in- closure are the remains of a large multi- piered huilding nhich is believed to have been the kings Srd-festival anti adjoining this on the west a succession of courts and smaller buildings To the south and east of the inclosure are the ruins of other structures including several large and handsome villas There is every probability that the inclosure once con-tained a big rectangular pool of r ~ - a t e r ~ ~ ~ fed perhaps from the principal palace lake the present-day Birket IIabu

Some distance south of the main city at Tell el hmarna there is a generally similar architectural layout consisting of two big rectangular inclosures lying side by side and containing in addition to pools villas magazines and other build- ings a small temple This temple was presumably dedicated to the Aten and the whole complex was called the m3rur or pleasure-precinct() of the Aten- usually referred to by modern ~vriters simply as ilIaru-hten486

Like Pr-hcy the name nhich he used

4 See above p 85

A usual feature of the larger ancient Egyptian courtyards and one which would explain the complete absence of building remains in the central portion of this inclosure

8 8 City I chap v Pls S X I X fl The riame XIarll- 4teuW and the word m3ria are discussed by Ciu11n 011 pp 133-58

the and its wine is (even) more plentifulm3 than for his principal palace a t A m a r ~ ~ a ~ ~ ~ term m3rw was probably derived by Akhenaten from some portion of his fathers palace at Thebes where how- ever the full name ~vould in all likelihood have been the m3rw of Amiin Granted that a part of the Theban palace was so named n-e can hardly doubt that the part in question was the isolated northern quarter with the temple and inclosure of Amiin

Fortunately there is inscriptional evi- dence to show that hmenhotep I11actual-ly did build a Maru-Amtin across the river from Luxor in the general locality -

occupied by the illalkata temple inclo- sure This evidence is found in lines 12-14 of the kings well-known granite stela in C a i r~ ~here following descriptions of the mortuary temple in western Thebes and the temple a t Luxor there appears the follo~i-ing account of a hitherto un-identified structure

Ariotller nlonulrie~it which His Majesty 111tde for his father Amfin making for him a

r r i l n i (gt-) as an offering to the god -I n

oppositeg Soutllern a place ofO ~ e t ~ ~ ~ arnusernent for my Father in his goodly festi- va l (~ ) In it I erected a great templeM1 (which is) like the Sun (Rc)when it appears in glory on the horizon and ~vhich is planted with all (kinds of) flowers Fair is the Primaeval Water (inla) which ii in its lake at every season4g2

8 See above pp 178 and 182

1x5 Ko 34025 See Lacau Stkles ilu Touuel E m p i r e 11 S V I The text as restored by Sethy I contains a t~rirnber of iniswritings which are emended by Spiegel- berg in R e c l r a a S X 4CL43 (see esp p 41 UII 5-9)

l a gHl-I lr -n before the face of facing-here I believe in the sense of directly across (the iVile) from Compare the common expression for west- err1 Thebes Bft-l~in b s Opposite-her-Lord ( I i7b 111 276 b)

The temple of Luxor On a map of Thebes a line drau-n from the sanctuary of the Lrixor temple a r ~ d projected westward a t right angles to the corirse of the river passes just to the north of the palace area

(I t -nr r t a stock expression uot really in- dicative of the actual size of the temple which irl this case happeus to have bee11 relatively small

(its) water-like the pouring forth of the Inun- dation (Hpy)a4 created by the Lord of Eter- nity Numerous are the possessions of the place The taxes of every country are received and plentiful tribute is brought before my Father being the presentations of all lands

Aside from the comments made in the footnotes there seems to be nothing which needs to be added to this description of what would appear to have been the northern quarter of the Malkata palace except to note that for an inscription of its type and period it is unusually accurate and complete

IX MISCELLANEOUS INSCRIPTIONS

Among the few inscribed objects found in the ruins of the palace which do not belong to one of the eight categories al- ready discussed were two fragments of a name-stone of H a t ~ h e p s u t ~ ~ j picked up by Lansing in November 1917 in the vil- lage area to the n-est of the North Pa1ace here can be little doubt that the stone

came originally from the temple of Hat- shepsut and Thutmose I11 at Medinet Habu where numerous examples of the same type have been found4 and that it had wandered thence into the palace area at a relatively recent date

Mixed in with the fragments of in-scribed jars from the Palace of the King were two potsherds with portions of Eighteenth Dynasty hieratic copies of two famous literary texts the Instruction of hmenemhet I (Fig 39 4)495 and a n-ell-

4 0 2 Thanks u e may suppose to the channel con- necting the Uirket Habri with the Nile (see Engelbach and 12facaldin B u l l rle I I n s t rlampgple XS52)

4 9 3 See the second column of the table of Fig 16 above

4 0 1 See De Brick On the 3Ieaning of the Name fPpj Orzentalza S e e r l a n d z c a 1049 pp 1-22

6 Ou stones of this type see my O s t r a k a a n d Tame- S t o n r s pp 45-46

4 9 6 See eg Holscher E r c a c a t i o n o M e d i n e t I I a b u 1132 Figs 27 28

0 Small portions of the begitlr~irlg of the text (Pap Sallier 11 1-2) are preserved

242 JOURNAL S~UDIESOF NEAREASTERK

known model letter of the earlier Middle Iiingdom (Fig 39 5)498

MTith the exception of some pieces of in- scribed alabaster vases from the store- rooms of the Temple of Amdn499 of xvhich unhappily I can find no copies or photo- graphs this completes the corpus of Eighteenth Dynasty inscriptions recov-erecl from the palace by the Metropolitan 3luseums espedibion A few Late Dynas- tic burials with inscribed coffins some Demotic ostraka and half a dozen in- scribed amphorae of the Greco-Roman Period were also found but these have no bearing on the history of the Malkata as

a royal residence-a history which seems to have ended abruptly vith the rise of the Nineteenth Dynasty

Exclusive of Amenhotep I11 himself thirteen royal persons are mentioned on inscribed objects found within the con- fines of the Malkata palace Though the names of some of these persons appear on objects or in contests of no particular his- torical significance it seems desirable nevertheless to list them all in chronologi- cal order accompanied by indications of the types and quantities of the inscrip- tions in which they occur

Hatshepsut I name-stone probably from rtledinet Habu Thutmose 111 4 document-sealings (Types S 1 2 Fig 31) 4

scarabs (Types R 24-27 Fig 34) Amenliotep 11 2 document-sealings (Type S 3 Fig 31) Tllutnlose I V 9 jar-labels (Types 31 32 45 Figs 5 t i ) 2 docu-

ment-sealings (Types S 4 5 Fig 31) Queen JIute~nuya I jar-label (Type 64 Fig 7) Queer1 Tiy I jar-label (Type 98 Fig 8) numerous brick

stimys (Types 111 IT Fig 30) 32 ring bezels (Types R 12-16 Fig 34) 2 scarabs (p 233 and n 419) 1 kohl-tube and 2 rase fragment^ (Fig 35 d q r)

Tlic Kings (Great) Wife (=T iy ) 26 jar-labels (Types 7 18 94 129 147 172 207 Figs 4 8 10 11 1314) 1jar-sealing (Tgt-pe 0 Fig 26)

Queen Sitarniln 51 jar-labels (Types 94-97 112 113 137 139 Figs8911) 2 ring bezels (Type R 17 Fig 34)

Princess Henettoneb Rlentioned on a sandstone stela (Figs 37 bot-tom 39 3)

Irince Arnenhotep (=Amenliotep IV ) 1 jar-sealing (Type KK Fig 27) ilmenhotep IV (ilkhenaten) 3 document-sealings (Types S 97 120 124 Fig

33) 1 ring bezel (Type H 18 Fig 34) Smenklikar 2 ring bezels (Types R 19 20 Fig 34) Tutcankhnmtin I ring bezel (Type R 21 Fig 34) (JueenAnkhesenamOn (CZrlkhesenpatten) 1 document-sealing (Type P 125 Fig 33) 1 ring

bezel (Type R 22 Fig 34) Horelnlieb 1 fragment of sandstone doorjamb (Fig 37 1q1-

per right)

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FIG 38 -Offering tables

H A N D - C O P I E S A N D O S T R A K A

three n f r - ~ i g n s ~ ~ ~ in the other (b) fol- lowed by the epithet [beloved of] Amen- It Lord of Heaven

The prenomen of Amenhotep 111 (Kebmac[rEc]) appears in the openwork design of a handsome but unfortunately fragmentary bracelet of bright-blue fai- ence (r)

The lo]-er part of a kohl-tube of yellow faience with the inscriptions encrusted in deep-purplish-blue glaze (d) bears the cartouche of Queen Tiy and the wish -lay she live Fragments of t xo similar tubes in white faience (j)and pale-green faience ( k ) were inscribed also in dark blue n-ith the titles and name of the king The Good God Lord of the Two Lands NebmacrEc [given] life43a

-4 white faience lotus-petal pendant (f)439 is tipped with a blob of yellow glaze and adorned in dark-blue glaze with the prenomen-cartouche of Amenhotep I11 surmountetl by the solar disk (red) and double plume Part of the same cartouche without the plumes appears in dark blue on a fragment of a molded lotus-flower ornament of pale green and white fay- ence ( h ) 440

The most interesting of the vase frag- ments is a small piece from the side of a blue fafence goblet (g) engraved on the exterior with part of a Scd-festival scene441 At the right the king appears heated in a pavillion wearing the Crown of Lon-er Egypt and holding in his hands the crook and flail At the left above

4 1 r Cf Hall op c i t No 2880 Daressy Fouil lrs No 24298 4 Petrie S i x T p n ~ p l e s P1 V 11 The ud3t-eye alone appears on most of the examples cited above in n 435 The design shown in Fig 34 is repeated on the other side of the throw-stick in this case however w-ith the throne-name of the king (NebmacrGc) The fragment was found by Lansing during the season of 1917-18 in a house south of the Temple of Aman

4 3 8 A third example in green faience (MMA Acc No 11215493) preserves a minute portion of the same inscription

4 3 9 Cf A n ~ a r n a P1 XX Citw I I P1 XXSVI 1 2

4 4 0 Cf i n ~ a r n o P1 XIX C i t y 1 1 P1 XXXVI 1 2

an arm holding the symbol of (many years and having suspended from it one or more related symbols can be made out the lower part of the cnrtouche with the name ([Amen]hotep Ruler of Thebes

A fragmentary vase of white faience (e) and another of yellow faience (not

both decorated and inscribed in dark blue preserve on their sides parts of a rectangular panel with the names and titles of the king The Good God Neb- macrF the Son of RElt Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given [life] forever and por- tions of the kings cartouches appear on fragments of three blue faience dishes -(1 0 and p) and on a segment of a white faience jar-lid (m)Pieces of a jar of blue faience (y) and a saucer of gray fai-ence (r)444 carry the cartouche of Queen Tiy in the first instance accompanying that of the king A small globular vase of pale-green paste represented by the frag- ment (11)) had around its middle an in- cised band of hieroglyphs of which there remain only the words stability well-being and jo[y] -obviously from a long royal titulary In addition there are fragments of two little vases of purple and turquoise-blue n-ith engraved panels of inscription similar to that of the faience vase ( e )

The remaining item shown in Figure 35 (i) is a thin strip of ebony inlay prob- ably from a box or a piece of furniture I ts incised inscription once filled with yellow paint comprises the nbty-name of

4 4 1 I have found no exact parallel to the composi- tion seen here but the elements occur in numerorls representations of this stage of the Sed-festival eg Gayet Temple de Louror P1 LXXI Big 177 ( = L U 111 P1 74 d l Winlock J E B IV P1 IV Chevrier A n n Ser t XLVII 170 P1 XXVI Bisson do la Roque Fouil les I n s t f r Ca i re VIII P1 VII I See also Frankfort K i n g s h i p and the Gods chap vi

4 4 31x1-4 BCc NO11215494 d 4 3 Dark-blue faIence with light-blue lueroglyphs 4 4 4 The inscription of ( q ) is dark blue that of ( r ) is

white 4 d j AIJIA Acc Xos 11215505 and 507

Amenhotep I11 (the T~vo-Goddesses Establisher-of-Laws- (and-)Pacifier-of-the- T ~ v o - L a n d s ) ~ ~ ~followed by the title the Good God which normally precedes the throne-name of the king

VIII MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION8

Probably never very numerous the in- scriptions of this class which have been re- covered from the scanty and thoroughly plundered ruins of the palace buildings are few in number and for the most part ex- tremely fragmentary The majority of them come from the Temple of Amfin which though built of brick like the rest of the palace was provided with inscribed doorframes offering tables stelae and statues of stone and included several rooms the I-alls of which Tvere adorned with moldings ornamental patterns and inscriptions of gilded ~vood and plaster inlaid with blue faience tiles

Since all but one of the pieces of stone plaster and tilework bearing these in-scriptions were reburied at Thehes before the conclusion of the 31useum1s escava- tions in 1920 our knowledge of them is derived almost entirely from photographs sketches hand copies and notes made in the field by Winlock White and Lansing and it is these records now in New York which have provided the illustrations of Figures 36-39 and which form the basis of the discussion to follo~v Sever for ex- ample having seen the fragments of in- scribed offering tables from the palaces rlemple of Amiin I have in Figure 38 simply reprduced a photograph of Lan- sings original pencil sketches of these fragments rearranged and relabeled but otherwise untouched

In the Palace of the King the painted plaster ceiling of the pharaohs bedcham- her had heen decorated down its middle with a succession of great spread vul- t u r e ~ ~ ~ under the wings of each of which

4 4 6 Gauthier 1irre d e ro i i 11 306 ff

were painted in large detailed hieroglyphs the titles and names of Amenhotep 111 Enough fragments of fallen plaster were foundon the floor of the ruined chamber to restore one pair of the inscriptions and a hand copy of these (taken from Win- locks notes for February 1 1911) is given at the top of Figure 39 (1)On the right under the left wing of the vulture one read The Good God Lord of the TWO Lands Nebmacrec Chosen of Rec given life and on the left separated from the foregoing by the legs and tail of the bird The Son of Re Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given life The nomen-cartouche in the latter inscription had been painted over with ~vhitewash-evidently by fol-

lowers of the Aten desirous of obliterating the name of Amiin wherever it occurred448 These appear to have been the only monu- mental inscriptions found by the Muse- ums expedition anywhere in the palace area outside of the inclosure of the Temple of A m i ~ n ~ ~ ~

One of the most interesting pieces of stone discovered in the temple was part of the tip of the plumed headdress of a colossal statue of the god Amfin in dark- gray porphyritic d i ~ r i t e ~ ~ (Fig 36 top) The width of the remaining plume (23 cm) compared with the correspond- ing measurement on the well-known group of- Amiin and Tutcankhamiin in the Louvre451 indicates that the Xllalkata

44 Winlock Bull MMA 1912 p 186 See also Tytus P r e l i m i n a r R e p o r t pp 18 20 and cf Capart L S r t amp g y p t i e n I PI 147 Prisse dnvennes IIilttuirc iie l ar t i g y p t i e n ttins I trchitecture PI [I

4 s Cf Tytus o p r i t p 10

4 9 See however i b id pp 10 25

450 A stone often and (I am told) incorrectly tle- scribed as black granite The fragment which is 46 cm in height and 30 cm in width was found by Lansing during the season of 1916-17 near the cen- tral portion of the temple proper Pieces of probably the same statue (described as unimportant frag-ments of a black granite statue) were found by White during the preceding season in the same general locality

4 5 1 Benedite M o n u m e n t s P io t S S I V 47-68 See also E n c y r l o p P d i e p h o t o g r a p h i y u r d e l a r t 1 L e ~ l l u s i e d u L o u v r e pp 78-79

statue when complete n-as 440 meters or ahout fourteen ant1 a half feet in height A s in the Louvre group the got1 as pro)- ably represented seated on a throne Ivith perhaps a smaller figure of the king stand- ing or kneeling before him452 Admirably carved and beautifully finished the statue may have been the temples principal cult image though its huge size tends to mili- tate against this-53 I ts back pilaster car- ried three vertical coliimns of incised hieroglyphic inscriptions of which are pre-

served the groups [Q] 1

r r-hat the tops of the sec-

ond and third columns respectively (Fig 36 upper right)

A fragment of sandstone door-lintel (Fig 36 lower left) found lying on the sur- face of the ground inside the temple in- losu sure^^^ was photographed by Evelyn FThite during the season of 1914-15 The piece measures 70 cm in length and 83 cm in height the lintel having been originally about 107 cm high-a sizable block of stone Its decoration lightly incised anti somewhat carelessly executed was whol- ly conventional a winged suns disk and helon- it two horizontal lines of inscrip tion with the titles and names of Amen- hotep III05 The kings prenomen [Neb]- ma [re ] with the epithet Heir of Re ( i l l s - f R-) included in the cartouche is fairly c ~ m m o n ~ occurring for example on a piece of re-used() sandstone relief found in the temple of Eye and IIorem- heb14j7which lies about a kilometer to the north of the palace area The tops of the

signs 18 a t its extreme left end are all

3 See Varille K a r n a k I 8-9 PI X V 4 5 3 See Holscher hxcavatzon o l f e d z n ~ f Hahu

IIT 26 154 White Bul l f~f-l1915 p 256 Lansing Bull

1fMd Alarch 1918 Supp lement p 8 4 2 5 Cf Varille K a r n a k I PI XII 17 456 Gauthier Lzvre des roiu 11 316 X X I X 317

SSS318 X S X I V 4 5 7 Hiilscher Excanalion o Medinet Habu 11 101

PI 43 n

that remain of the second line of inscrip- tion

A pair of fragmentary sandst onc tloor- jaml)s (Fig 36 lower right) though similar in style are smaller in scale than the lintel measuring only 20 cm in width the right jamb being preserved to a height of 70 cm They are from Lansings excavations of 1916-17 in the templearea Each evidently bore one of the names of Amenhotep 111 f ollo~r-ed by the expressions beloved of such-and-such a divinity and given life like RP forever Flre may guess that on the left jamb the deity referred to was Amen-Re [Lord of] Heaven and what remains of the signs a t the top of the frag- ment of the right jamb suggests the name of the goddess Shesmet (Ssmtt)45~luch more interesting than the principal in-scriptions are the tu-o small lines of text written near the bottom of the right jamb and given in hand copy in Figure 39 2 These inform us that the doorway or the structure to which it belonged was made under the direction of the Treasurer of the King of Lower Egypt the StolistGq of 3Iin-Amfin the Fourth Prophet of Amiin Simtit the justified

A prominent member of the hierarchy of hmiin Simiit is named as Fourth Prophet of the god in a statue inscription in Brussels together n-ith his three superi- ors the First Prophet Bleryptah the Second Prophet (and brother-in-law of the king) ltAnen and the Third Prophet Amenemhet460 Since the inscription re-ferred to is dated to Year 20 of Amenho- tep I11 and the chapel of Amiin in the Jfalkata palace was probably built for the celebration of the kings second Sed-

0 W b IT538 Budge Dic t ionary p 753 Gard O n 11 125

4 5 9 S m See Grdseloff A n n Serl XLITI 357 f f The title Stolist of AIin-ArnGn was borne in the Nineteenth Dynasty by IEhaCeniwast a so11 of the High Priest of B m h Wepwawetnlose (Lefebvre Histoire des yrands pramptres c l i ln~o7t p 240)

460 Capart and Spiegelberg -4 n 71 Sac A r eh d e Brurel les XVI 167 Fig 2

festival in Year 34461 it mould appear that Simtit held the rank of Fourth Prophet for about fourteen years462 Before the end of his career he was elevated to the grade of Second Prophet of Amiin and is so re- ferred to on toTo statues3 and two shawnbty-figure~~~4in the Cairo Museum He appears in the reliefs of the temple at Soleb participating in the celebration of Amenhotep 111s first Heb-~ed~ and lvas the owner of a decorated tomb on the Dira abul Naga at ThebesG6 On one of his statues in Cairo467 he bears the title First Kings Son of Amiin and the presence of his name on a doorway of one of the kings temples suggests that like ane en he -as related to Amenh~t~ep I11 either by blood or by marriage The fact that he was evi- dently in charge of what during the reign of Amenhotep I11 must have been the fourth most important of tmhe Theban temples of Amtin further suggests that there oras some sort of nominal division of responsibility between the four prophets of the god-the High Priest presiding at Karnak and delegating the immediate supervision of the Luxor temple the kings mortuary temple and the Malkata

401 See above p 85

402 Possibly less Sirniit may have received his ap- pointment as Fourth Prophet in Year 20 itself and the Malkata temple may have been built and inscribed a year or two before the celebration of the second Heb-sed During the reigns of Sethy I and Ramesses 11 Bakenkhonsu who eventually became High Priest of Amfin served twelve years as a Father of the God flf- teen years as Third Prophet and twelve years as Sec- ond Prophet (Lefebvre Hzstozre des g r a n d s p r l t r r s p 128)

463 Borchardt S t a t u e n t l nd S ta tue t t en 111161 Ko 932 IV 60 IGo 1107

4 6 4 Mariette Cat yl n des m o n u m e n t s d d b y d o s Nos 389 and 3 9 0 incorrectly dated by SIariette (and Lefebvre o p czt p 24 K O 1) to the late Middle K~ngdom The two Simiits listed by Lefebvre ( l ac czt IGos 1 and 9) are clearly one and the same man

465 Lepsius D e n k m u l e r 111PI 84 b

468 Porter-Sfoss T o p B i b l I 187 1 Varille A n n Seru S L 642 n 3

4 6 7 No 1107 See above n 483

temple to the Second Third and Fourth Prophets respectively

Similt may also have been the o-ner of a rough little sandstone stela a few bat- tered fragments of 11-hich mere recovered by Lansing from the ruins of the temple proper and are shown in the photograph at the bottom of Figure 37 A rectangular slab something over 45 cm in thickness the stela Ivas once painted white with blue hieroglyphs and red dividing lines the latter spaced on the average 3 em apart Preserved are parts of a seven-line inscription surmounting an incised design of indeterminate nature and comprising portions of the autobiography of a priest or temple official of Amtin With the aid of Lansings hand copy a revised version of which is given in Figure 39 (3) we can make out the following phrases

(1) the Prince of Princes468 [intro]ducetl me into the House of Amfin

(2) for his469 son Nehmacrei who be- longs to

(3) - V amp [ ~ ] W ( )a long lifetime as king living

(4) life() great of victories ( 5 ) Went [dou~n] the Kings [Daughter]

HenettonehQ in front of (6) great of hirn who causes rnonu-

ment which is (7) in the place the gods words which

he recited Mention has already been made of the

tile and gilded plaster decoration of a row

6 Probably Amenhotep 111 (see Varille A n n Sera XXXIII 93-94 XXXIV 13-16 Capart C h r o n d Eq X 322-24 Gauthier Liare des ro i s 11 315 XXV 316 XXVIII) though the epithet F k l h g i w was current before his time being borne for example by Amenhotep I1on his great quartzite stela from Sakkiireh (1 34 Badaw-i A n n S e r e XLII 23 P1 I)

468 ilmiins There is however a bare possibility that the pronoun and the epithet Prince of Princes in the preceding line refer to Thutmose IV

4 7 0 Amenhotep 111ssecond eldest daughter and the senior princess following Sitamiins elevation to the status of queen See Gauthier o p ci t 11 341-42 Hayes Bull M M d 1948 pp 272 276-78

horizon4 M a y he he given4 life stability md well-being [forever]

Thc expression Offering-of-the-1lt001 (wdn 11 tp-ht) leaves little room for doubt that these small stone basins formed part of the furnishings of an elevated open-air sanctuary of the type dedicated to the worship of the sun-god (Rec of the Roof479 and known from texts of the Twentieth Dynasty and later times to have been called the House of RP of the Roof of the House of Amtin4xo Such a sanctuary existed in the great temple a t Karnak as early as the reign of Thut-mose III481and the presence of one in so small and unimportant a temple as that of the Llalkata palace indicates how prevalent shrines of this type must have been in the Amtin temples of the period

Since the function of our offering tables was presumably to receive libations and gifts of food presented to the sun-god it seems frivolous to suggest that they I-ould also have been useful for catching the fresh myrrh and fresh incense which Heaven in tn70 Eighteenth Dynasty in- scriptions is said to rain down upon the roofs of royal temples482

A glance a t the plan of the northern- most quarter of the palace published by

in 1918shows that the Temple

4 7 7 R-m](~c)[(n)RCwbnm iht ] Cf Aeg Inschr Brr- lin 11182No 7290 For Rec wenlightperhaps sub- stitute Aten (the disk of the sun not the god of Amarna) as in Berlin 7274 and 7271 (deg Inschr 11 154 and 105)

[I di] nb etc Cf Cairo 23040 23073 (Ka-mal op cit)

4 7 9 R tp-hl or R m tp-ht (Re in the Roof) a form of the god worshiped as early as the reigu of Kir~g Sahurec of the Fifth Dynasty and referred to in two places on the Palermo Stoue (verso 3 1 and 4 3 Schafer Ein Bruchstuck altagyptischer Annalen pp 36 and 39)

4 8 Pr-RC tp-ht Pr-Imn See the references giveu in (iard On 11 216 under -4 462 and in Kees Orirntalia XVIII 436-30

Icees op cit pp 427-42

48 Spiegelberg 24~LIII 99

fl Op cil p 9

of Amtin properly speaking occupied only the c+entral section of a long ljuiltiing cstcntling across the tcrracactl 11cst eritl of a vast ~valletl inclosure (see nlho Pig 1 above) The northern lying of this build- ing appears to have been given over to offices and magazines-probably for the contributions to the kings second Neb-scd -but the richly decorated rooms at its southern end were certainly intended for some less utilitarian purpose and its southeast corner was taken up by a luxuri- ously appointed dwelling house or small palace On the north sitie of the main in- closure are the remains of a large multi- piered huilding nhich is believed to have been the kings Srd-festival anti adjoining this on the west a succession of courts and smaller buildings To the south and east of the inclosure are the ruins of other structures including several large and handsome villas There is every probability that the inclosure once con-tained a big rectangular pool of r ~ - a t e r ~ ~ ~ fed perhaps from the principal palace lake the present-day Birket IIabu

Some distance south of the main city at Tell el hmarna there is a generally similar architectural layout consisting of two big rectangular inclosures lying side by side and containing in addition to pools villas magazines and other build- ings a small temple This temple was presumably dedicated to the Aten and the whole complex was called the m3rur or pleasure-precinct() of the Aten- usually referred to by modern ~vriters simply as ilIaru-hten486

Like Pr-hcy the name nhich he used

4 See above p 85

A usual feature of the larger ancient Egyptian courtyards and one which would explain the complete absence of building remains in the central portion of this inclosure

8 8 City I chap v Pls S X I X fl The riame XIarll- 4teuW and the word m3ria are discussed by Ciu11n 011 pp 133-58

the and its wine is (even) more plentifulm3 than for his principal palace a t A m a r ~ ~ a ~ ~ ~ term m3rw was probably derived by Akhenaten from some portion of his fathers palace at Thebes where how- ever the full name ~vould in all likelihood have been the m3rw of Amiin Granted that a part of the Theban palace was so named n-e can hardly doubt that the part in question was the isolated northern quarter with the temple and inclosure of Amiin

Fortunately there is inscriptional evi- dence to show that hmenhotep I11actual-ly did build a Maru-Amtin across the river from Luxor in the general locality -

occupied by the illalkata temple inclo- sure This evidence is found in lines 12-14 of the kings well-known granite stela in C a i r~ ~here following descriptions of the mortuary temple in western Thebes and the temple a t Luxor there appears the follo~i-ing account of a hitherto un-identified structure

Ariotller nlonulrie~it which His Majesty 111tde for his father Amfin making for him a

r r i l n i (gt-) as an offering to the god -I n

oppositeg Soutllern a place ofO ~ e t ~ ~ ~ arnusernent for my Father in his goodly festi- va l (~ ) In it I erected a great templeM1 (which is) like the Sun (Rc)when it appears in glory on the horizon and ~vhich is planted with all (kinds of) flowers Fair is the Primaeval Water (inla) which ii in its lake at every season4g2

8 See above pp 178 and 182

1x5 Ko 34025 See Lacau Stkles ilu Touuel E m p i r e 11 S V I The text as restored by Sethy I contains a t~rirnber of iniswritings which are emended by Spiegel- berg in R e c l r a a S X 4CL43 (see esp p 41 UII 5-9)

l a gHl-I lr -n before the face of facing-here I believe in the sense of directly across (the iVile) from Compare the common expression for west- err1 Thebes Bft-l~in b s Opposite-her-Lord ( I i7b 111 276 b)

The temple of Luxor On a map of Thebes a line drau-n from the sanctuary of the Lrixor temple a r ~ d projected westward a t right angles to the corirse of the river passes just to the north of the palace area

(I t -nr r t a stock expression uot really in- dicative of the actual size of the temple which irl this case happeus to have bee11 relatively small

(its) water-like the pouring forth of the Inun- dation (Hpy)a4 created by the Lord of Eter- nity Numerous are the possessions of the place The taxes of every country are received and plentiful tribute is brought before my Father being the presentations of all lands

Aside from the comments made in the footnotes there seems to be nothing which needs to be added to this description of what would appear to have been the northern quarter of the Malkata palace except to note that for an inscription of its type and period it is unusually accurate and complete

IX MISCELLANEOUS INSCRIPTIONS

Among the few inscribed objects found in the ruins of the palace which do not belong to one of the eight categories al- ready discussed were two fragments of a name-stone of H a t ~ h e p s u t ~ ~ j picked up by Lansing in November 1917 in the vil- lage area to the n-est of the North Pa1ace here can be little doubt that the stone

came originally from the temple of Hat- shepsut and Thutmose I11 at Medinet Habu where numerous examples of the same type have been found4 and that it had wandered thence into the palace area at a relatively recent date

Mixed in with the fragments of in-scribed jars from the Palace of the King were two potsherds with portions of Eighteenth Dynasty hieratic copies of two famous literary texts the Instruction of hmenemhet I (Fig 39 4)495 and a n-ell-

4 0 2 Thanks u e may suppose to the channel con- necting the Uirket Habri with the Nile (see Engelbach and 12facaldin B u l l rle I I n s t rlampgple XS52)

4 9 3 See the second column of the table of Fig 16 above

4 0 1 See De Brick On the 3Ieaning of the Name fPpj Orzentalza S e e r l a n d z c a 1049 pp 1-22

6 Ou stones of this type see my O s t r a k a a n d Tame- S t o n r s pp 45-46

4 9 6 See eg Holscher E r c a c a t i o n o M e d i n e t I I a b u 1132 Figs 27 28

0 Small portions of the begitlr~irlg of the text (Pap Sallier 11 1-2) are preserved

242 JOURNAL S~UDIESOF NEAREASTERK

known model letter of the earlier Middle Iiingdom (Fig 39 5)498

MTith the exception of some pieces of in- scribed alabaster vases from the store- rooms of the Temple of Amdn499 of xvhich unhappily I can find no copies or photo- graphs this completes the corpus of Eighteenth Dynasty inscriptions recov-erecl from the palace by the Metropolitan 3luseums espedibion A few Late Dynas- tic burials with inscribed coffins some Demotic ostraka and half a dozen in- scribed amphorae of the Greco-Roman Period were also found but these have no bearing on the history of the Malkata as

a royal residence-a history which seems to have ended abruptly vith the rise of the Nineteenth Dynasty

Exclusive of Amenhotep I11 himself thirteen royal persons are mentioned on inscribed objects found within the con- fines of the Malkata palace Though the names of some of these persons appear on objects or in contests of no particular his- torical significance it seems desirable nevertheless to list them all in chronologi- cal order accompanied by indications of the types and quantities of the inscrip- tions in which they occur

Hatshepsut I name-stone probably from rtledinet Habu Thutmose 111 4 document-sealings (Types S 1 2 Fig 31) 4

scarabs (Types R 24-27 Fig 34) Amenliotep 11 2 document-sealings (Type S 3 Fig 31) Tllutnlose I V 9 jar-labels (Types 31 32 45 Figs 5 t i ) 2 docu-

ment-sealings (Types S 4 5 Fig 31) Queen JIute~nuya I jar-label (Type 64 Fig 7) Queer1 Tiy I jar-label (Type 98 Fig 8) numerous brick

stimys (Types 111 IT Fig 30) 32 ring bezels (Types R 12-16 Fig 34) 2 scarabs (p 233 and n 419) 1 kohl-tube and 2 rase fragment^ (Fig 35 d q r)

Tlic Kings (Great) Wife (=T iy ) 26 jar-labels (Types 7 18 94 129 147 172 207 Figs 4 8 10 11 1314) 1jar-sealing (Tgt-pe 0 Fig 26)

Queen Sitarniln 51 jar-labels (Types 94-97 112 113 137 139 Figs8911) 2 ring bezels (Type R 17 Fig 34)

Princess Henettoneb Rlentioned on a sandstone stela (Figs 37 bot-tom 39 3)

Irince Arnenhotep (=Amenliotep IV ) 1 jar-sealing (Type KK Fig 27) ilmenhotep IV (ilkhenaten) 3 document-sealings (Types S 97 120 124 Fig

33) 1 ring bezel (Type H 18 Fig 34) Smenklikar 2 ring bezels (Types R 19 20 Fig 34) Tutcankhnmtin I ring bezel (Type R 21 Fig 34) (JueenAnkhesenamOn (CZrlkhesenpatten) 1 document-sealing (Type P 125 Fig 33) 1 ring

bezel (Type R 22 Fig 34) Horelnlieb 1 fragment of sandstone doorjamb (Fig 37 1q1-

per right)

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three n f r - ~ i g n s ~ ~ ~ in the other (b) fol- lowed by the epithet [beloved of] Amen- It Lord of Heaven

The prenomen of Amenhotep 111 (Kebmac[rEc]) appears in the openwork design of a handsome but unfortunately fragmentary bracelet of bright-blue fai- ence (r)

The lo]-er part of a kohl-tube of yellow faience with the inscriptions encrusted in deep-purplish-blue glaze (d) bears the cartouche of Queen Tiy and the wish -lay she live Fragments of t xo similar tubes in white faience (j)and pale-green faience ( k ) were inscribed also in dark blue n-ith the titles and name of the king The Good God Lord of the Two Lands NebmacrEc [given] life43a

-4 white faience lotus-petal pendant (f)439 is tipped with a blob of yellow glaze and adorned in dark-blue glaze with the prenomen-cartouche of Amenhotep I11 surmountetl by the solar disk (red) and double plume Part of the same cartouche without the plumes appears in dark blue on a fragment of a molded lotus-flower ornament of pale green and white fay- ence ( h ) 440

The most interesting of the vase frag- ments is a small piece from the side of a blue fafence goblet (g) engraved on the exterior with part of a Scd-festival scene441 At the right the king appears heated in a pavillion wearing the Crown of Lon-er Egypt and holding in his hands the crook and flail At the left above

4 1 r Cf Hall op c i t No 2880 Daressy Fouil lrs No 24298 4 Petrie S i x T p n ~ p l e s P1 V 11 The ud3t-eye alone appears on most of the examples cited above in n 435 The design shown in Fig 34 is repeated on the other side of the throw-stick in this case however w-ith the throne-name of the king (NebmacrGc) The fragment was found by Lansing during the season of 1917-18 in a house south of the Temple of Aman

4 3 8 A third example in green faience (MMA Acc No 11215493) preserves a minute portion of the same inscription

4 3 9 Cf A n ~ a r n a P1 XX Citw I I P1 XXSVI 1 2

4 4 0 Cf i n ~ a r n o P1 XIX C i t y 1 1 P1 XXXVI 1 2

an arm holding the symbol of (many years and having suspended from it one or more related symbols can be made out the lower part of the cnrtouche with the name ([Amen]hotep Ruler of Thebes

A fragmentary vase of white faience (e) and another of yellow faience (not

both decorated and inscribed in dark blue preserve on their sides parts of a rectangular panel with the names and titles of the king The Good God Neb- macrF the Son of RElt Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given [life] forever and por- tions of the kings cartouches appear on fragments of three blue faience dishes -(1 0 and p) and on a segment of a white faience jar-lid (m)Pieces of a jar of blue faience (y) and a saucer of gray fai-ence (r)444 carry the cartouche of Queen Tiy in the first instance accompanying that of the king A small globular vase of pale-green paste represented by the frag- ment (11)) had around its middle an in- cised band of hieroglyphs of which there remain only the words stability well-being and jo[y] -obviously from a long royal titulary In addition there are fragments of two little vases of purple and turquoise-blue n-ith engraved panels of inscription similar to that of the faience vase ( e )

The remaining item shown in Figure 35 (i) is a thin strip of ebony inlay prob- ably from a box or a piece of furniture I ts incised inscription once filled with yellow paint comprises the nbty-name of

4 4 1 I have found no exact parallel to the composi- tion seen here but the elements occur in numerorls representations of this stage of the Sed-festival eg Gayet Temple de Louror P1 LXXI Big 177 ( = L U 111 P1 74 d l Winlock J E B IV P1 IV Chevrier A n n Ser t XLVII 170 P1 XXVI Bisson do la Roque Fouil les I n s t f r Ca i re VIII P1 VII I See also Frankfort K i n g s h i p and the Gods chap vi

4 4 31x1-4 BCc NO11215494 d 4 3 Dark-blue faIence with light-blue lueroglyphs 4 4 4 The inscription of ( q ) is dark blue that of ( r ) is

white 4 d j AIJIA Acc Xos 11215505 and 507

Amenhotep I11 (the T~vo-Goddesses Establisher-of-Laws- (and-)Pacifier-of-the- T ~ v o - L a n d s ) ~ ~ ~followed by the title the Good God which normally precedes the throne-name of the king

VIII MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION8

Probably never very numerous the in- scriptions of this class which have been re- covered from the scanty and thoroughly plundered ruins of the palace buildings are few in number and for the most part ex- tremely fragmentary The majority of them come from the Temple of Amfin which though built of brick like the rest of the palace was provided with inscribed doorframes offering tables stelae and statues of stone and included several rooms the I-alls of which Tvere adorned with moldings ornamental patterns and inscriptions of gilded ~vood and plaster inlaid with blue faience tiles

Since all but one of the pieces of stone plaster and tilework bearing these in-scriptions were reburied at Thehes before the conclusion of the 31useum1s escava- tions in 1920 our knowledge of them is derived almost entirely from photographs sketches hand copies and notes made in the field by Winlock White and Lansing and it is these records now in New York which have provided the illustrations of Figures 36-39 and which form the basis of the discussion to follo~v Sever for ex- ample having seen the fragments of in- scribed offering tables from the palaces rlemple of Amiin I have in Figure 38 simply reprduced a photograph of Lan- sings original pencil sketches of these fragments rearranged and relabeled but otherwise untouched

In the Palace of the King the painted plaster ceiling of the pharaohs bedcham- her had heen decorated down its middle with a succession of great spread vul- t u r e ~ ~ ~ under the wings of each of which

4 4 6 Gauthier 1irre d e ro i i 11 306 ff

were painted in large detailed hieroglyphs the titles and names of Amenhotep 111 Enough fragments of fallen plaster were foundon the floor of the ruined chamber to restore one pair of the inscriptions and a hand copy of these (taken from Win- locks notes for February 1 1911) is given at the top of Figure 39 (1)On the right under the left wing of the vulture one read The Good God Lord of the TWO Lands Nebmacrec Chosen of Rec given life and on the left separated from the foregoing by the legs and tail of the bird The Son of Re Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given life The nomen-cartouche in the latter inscription had been painted over with ~vhitewash-evidently by fol-

lowers of the Aten desirous of obliterating the name of Amiin wherever it occurred448 These appear to have been the only monu- mental inscriptions found by the Muse- ums expedition anywhere in the palace area outside of the inclosure of the Temple of A m i ~ n ~ ~ ~

One of the most interesting pieces of stone discovered in the temple was part of the tip of the plumed headdress of a colossal statue of the god Amfin in dark- gray porphyritic d i ~ r i t e ~ ~ (Fig 36 top) The width of the remaining plume (23 cm) compared with the correspond- ing measurement on the well-known group of- Amiin and Tutcankhamiin in the Louvre451 indicates that the Xllalkata

44 Winlock Bull MMA 1912 p 186 See also Tytus P r e l i m i n a r R e p o r t pp 18 20 and cf Capart L S r t amp g y p t i e n I PI 147 Prisse dnvennes IIilttuirc iie l ar t i g y p t i e n ttins I trchitecture PI [I

4 s Cf Tytus o p r i t p 10

4 9 See however i b id pp 10 25

450 A stone often and (I am told) incorrectly tle- scribed as black granite The fragment which is 46 cm in height and 30 cm in width was found by Lansing during the season of 1916-17 near the cen- tral portion of the temple proper Pieces of probably the same statue (described as unimportant frag-ments of a black granite statue) were found by White during the preceding season in the same general locality

4 5 1 Benedite M o n u m e n t s P io t S S I V 47-68 See also E n c y r l o p P d i e p h o t o g r a p h i y u r d e l a r t 1 L e ~ l l u s i e d u L o u v r e pp 78-79

statue when complete n-as 440 meters or ahout fourteen ant1 a half feet in height A s in the Louvre group the got1 as pro)- ably represented seated on a throne Ivith perhaps a smaller figure of the king stand- ing or kneeling before him452 Admirably carved and beautifully finished the statue may have been the temples principal cult image though its huge size tends to mili- tate against this-53 I ts back pilaster car- ried three vertical coliimns of incised hieroglyphic inscriptions of which are pre-

served the groups [Q] 1

r r-hat the tops of the sec-

ond and third columns respectively (Fig 36 upper right)

A fragment of sandstone door-lintel (Fig 36 lower left) found lying on the sur- face of the ground inside the temple in- losu sure^^^ was photographed by Evelyn FThite during the season of 1914-15 The piece measures 70 cm in length and 83 cm in height the lintel having been originally about 107 cm high-a sizable block of stone Its decoration lightly incised anti somewhat carelessly executed was whol- ly conventional a winged suns disk and helon- it two horizontal lines of inscrip tion with the titles and names of Amen- hotep III05 The kings prenomen [Neb]- ma [re ] with the epithet Heir of Re ( i l l s - f R-) included in the cartouche is fairly c ~ m m o n ~ occurring for example on a piece of re-used() sandstone relief found in the temple of Eye and IIorem- heb14j7which lies about a kilometer to the north of the palace area The tops of the

signs 18 a t its extreme left end are all

3 See Varille K a r n a k I 8-9 PI X V 4 5 3 See Holscher hxcavatzon o l f e d z n ~ f Hahu

IIT 26 154 White Bul l f~f-l1915 p 256 Lansing Bull

1fMd Alarch 1918 Supp lement p 8 4 2 5 Cf Varille K a r n a k I PI XII 17 456 Gauthier Lzvre des roiu 11 316 X X I X 317

SSS318 X S X I V 4 5 7 Hiilscher Excanalion o Medinet Habu 11 101

PI 43 n

that remain of the second line of inscrip- tion

A pair of fragmentary sandst onc tloor- jaml)s (Fig 36 lower right) though similar in style are smaller in scale than the lintel measuring only 20 cm in width the right jamb being preserved to a height of 70 cm They are from Lansings excavations of 1916-17 in the templearea Each evidently bore one of the names of Amenhotep 111 f ollo~r-ed by the expressions beloved of such-and-such a divinity and given life like RP forever Flre may guess that on the left jamb the deity referred to was Amen-Re [Lord of] Heaven and what remains of the signs a t the top of the frag- ment of the right jamb suggests the name of the goddess Shesmet (Ssmtt)45~luch more interesting than the principal in-scriptions are the tu-o small lines of text written near the bottom of the right jamb and given in hand copy in Figure 39 2 These inform us that the doorway or the structure to which it belonged was made under the direction of the Treasurer of the King of Lower Egypt the StolistGq of 3Iin-Amfin the Fourth Prophet of Amiin Simtit the justified

A prominent member of the hierarchy of hmiin Simiit is named as Fourth Prophet of the god in a statue inscription in Brussels together n-ith his three superi- ors the First Prophet Bleryptah the Second Prophet (and brother-in-law of the king) ltAnen and the Third Prophet Amenemhet460 Since the inscription re-ferred to is dated to Year 20 of Amenho- tep I11 and the chapel of Amiin in the Jfalkata palace was probably built for the celebration of the kings second Sed-

0 W b IT538 Budge Dic t ionary p 753 Gard O n 11 125

4 5 9 S m See Grdseloff A n n Serl XLITI 357 f f The title Stolist of AIin-ArnGn was borne in the Nineteenth Dynasty by IEhaCeniwast a so11 of the High Priest of B m h Wepwawetnlose (Lefebvre Histoire des yrands pramptres c l i ln~o7t p 240)

460 Capart and Spiegelberg -4 n 71 Sac A r eh d e Brurel les XVI 167 Fig 2

festival in Year 34461 it mould appear that Simtit held the rank of Fourth Prophet for about fourteen years462 Before the end of his career he was elevated to the grade of Second Prophet of Amiin and is so re- ferred to on toTo statues3 and two shawnbty-figure~~~4in the Cairo Museum He appears in the reliefs of the temple at Soleb participating in the celebration of Amenhotep 111s first Heb-~ed~ and lvas the owner of a decorated tomb on the Dira abul Naga at ThebesG6 On one of his statues in Cairo467 he bears the title First Kings Son of Amiin and the presence of his name on a doorway of one of the kings temples suggests that like ane en he -as related to Amenh~t~ep I11 either by blood or by marriage The fact that he was evi- dently in charge of what during the reign of Amenhotep I11 must have been the fourth most important of tmhe Theban temples of Amtin further suggests that there oras some sort of nominal division of responsibility between the four prophets of the god-the High Priest presiding at Karnak and delegating the immediate supervision of the Luxor temple the kings mortuary temple and the Malkata

401 See above p 85

402 Possibly less Sirniit may have received his ap- pointment as Fourth Prophet in Year 20 itself and the Malkata temple may have been built and inscribed a year or two before the celebration of the second Heb-sed During the reigns of Sethy I and Ramesses 11 Bakenkhonsu who eventually became High Priest of Amfin served twelve years as a Father of the God flf- teen years as Third Prophet and twelve years as Sec- ond Prophet (Lefebvre Hzstozre des g r a n d s p r l t r r s p 128)

463 Borchardt S t a t u e n t l nd S ta tue t t en 111161 Ko 932 IV 60 IGo 1107

4 6 4 Mariette Cat yl n des m o n u m e n t s d d b y d o s Nos 389 and 3 9 0 incorrectly dated by SIariette (and Lefebvre o p czt p 24 K O 1) to the late Middle K~ngdom The two Simiits listed by Lefebvre ( l ac czt IGos 1 and 9) are clearly one and the same man

465 Lepsius D e n k m u l e r 111PI 84 b

468 Porter-Sfoss T o p B i b l I 187 1 Varille A n n Seru S L 642 n 3

4 6 7 No 1107 See above n 483

temple to the Second Third and Fourth Prophets respectively

Similt may also have been the o-ner of a rough little sandstone stela a few bat- tered fragments of 11-hich mere recovered by Lansing from the ruins of the temple proper and are shown in the photograph at the bottom of Figure 37 A rectangular slab something over 45 cm in thickness the stela Ivas once painted white with blue hieroglyphs and red dividing lines the latter spaced on the average 3 em apart Preserved are parts of a seven-line inscription surmounting an incised design of indeterminate nature and comprising portions of the autobiography of a priest or temple official of Amtin With the aid of Lansings hand copy a revised version of which is given in Figure 39 (3) we can make out the following phrases

(1) the Prince of Princes468 [intro]ducetl me into the House of Amfin

(2) for his469 son Nehmacrei who be- longs to

(3) - V amp [ ~ ] W ( )a long lifetime as king living

(4) life() great of victories ( 5 ) Went [dou~n] the Kings [Daughter]

HenettonehQ in front of (6) great of hirn who causes rnonu-

ment which is (7) in the place the gods words which

he recited Mention has already been made of the

tile and gilded plaster decoration of a row

6 Probably Amenhotep 111 (see Varille A n n Sera XXXIII 93-94 XXXIV 13-16 Capart C h r o n d Eq X 322-24 Gauthier Liare des ro i s 11 315 XXV 316 XXVIII) though the epithet F k l h g i w was current before his time being borne for example by Amenhotep I1on his great quartzite stela from Sakkiireh (1 34 Badaw-i A n n S e r e XLII 23 P1 I)

468 ilmiins There is however a bare possibility that the pronoun and the epithet Prince of Princes in the preceding line refer to Thutmose IV

4 7 0 Amenhotep 111ssecond eldest daughter and the senior princess following Sitamiins elevation to the status of queen See Gauthier o p ci t 11 341-42 Hayes Bull M M d 1948 pp 272 276-78

horizon4 M a y he he given4 life stability md well-being [forever]

Thc expression Offering-of-the-1lt001 (wdn 11 tp-ht) leaves little room for doubt that these small stone basins formed part of the furnishings of an elevated open-air sanctuary of the type dedicated to the worship of the sun-god (Rec of the Roof479 and known from texts of the Twentieth Dynasty and later times to have been called the House of RP of the Roof of the House of Amtin4xo Such a sanctuary existed in the great temple a t Karnak as early as the reign of Thut-mose III481and the presence of one in so small and unimportant a temple as that of the Llalkata palace indicates how prevalent shrines of this type must have been in the Amtin temples of the period

Since the function of our offering tables was presumably to receive libations and gifts of food presented to the sun-god it seems frivolous to suggest that they I-ould also have been useful for catching the fresh myrrh and fresh incense which Heaven in tn70 Eighteenth Dynasty in- scriptions is said to rain down upon the roofs of royal temples482

A glance a t the plan of the northern- most quarter of the palace published by

in 1918shows that the Temple

4 7 7 R-m](~c)[(n)RCwbnm iht ] Cf Aeg Inschr Brr- lin 11182No 7290 For Rec wenlightperhaps sub- stitute Aten (the disk of the sun not the god of Amarna) as in Berlin 7274 and 7271 (deg Inschr 11 154 and 105)

[I di] nb etc Cf Cairo 23040 23073 (Ka-mal op cit)

4 7 9 R tp-hl or R m tp-ht (Re in the Roof) a form of the god worshiped as early as the reigu of Kir~g Sahurec of the Fifth Dynasty and referred to in two places on the Palermo Stoue (verso 3 1 and 4 3 Schafer Ein Bruchstuck altagyptischer Annalen pp 36 and 39)

4 8 Pr-RC tp-ht Pr-Imn See the references giveu in (iard On 11 216 under -4 462 and in Kees Orirntalia XVIII 436-30

Icees op cit pp 427-42

48 Spiegelberg 24~LIII 99

fl Op cil p 9

of Amtin properly speaking occupied only the c+entral section of a long ljuiltiing cstcntling across the tcrracactl 11cst eritl of a vast ~valletl inclosure (see nlho Pig 1 above) The northern lying of this build- ing appears to have been given over to offices and magazines-probably for the contributions to the kings second Neb-scd -but the richly decorated rooms at its southern end were certainly intended for some less utilitarian purpose and its southeast corner was taken up by a luxuri- ously appointed dwelling house or small palace On the north sitie of the main in- closure are the remains of a large multi- piered huilding nhich is believed to have been the kings Srd-festival anti adjoining this on the west a succession of courts and smaller buildings To the south and east of the inclosure are the ruins of other structures including several large and handsome villas There is every probability that the inclosure once con-tained a big rectangular pool of r ~ - a t e r ~ ~ ~ fed perhaps from the principal palace lake the present-day Birket IIabu

Some distance south of the main city at Tell el hmarna there is a generally similar architectural layout consisting of two big rectangular inclosures lying side by side and containing in addition to pools villas magazines and other build- ings a small temple This temple was presumably dedicated to the Aten and the whole complex was called the m3rur or pleasure-precinct() of the Aten- usually referred to by modern ~vriters simply as ilIaru-hten486

Like Pr-hcy the name nhich he used

4 See above p 85

A usual feature of the larger ancient Egyptian courtyards and one which would explain the complete absence of building remains in the central portion of this inclosure

8 8 City I chap v Pls S X I X fl The riame XIarll- 4teuW and the word m3ria are discussed by Ciu11n 011 pp 133-58

the and its wine is (even) more plentifulm3 than for his principal palace a t A m a r ~ ~ a ~ ~ ~ term m3rw was probably derived by Akhenaten from some portion of his fathers palace at Thebes where how- ever the full name ~vould in all likelihood have been the m3rw of Amiin Granted that a part of the Theban palace was so named n-e can hardly doubt that the part in question was the isolated northern quarter with the temple and inclosure of Amiin

Fortunately there is inscriptional evi- dence to show that hmenhotep I11actual-ly did build a Maru-Amtin across the river from Luxor in the general locality -

occupied by the illalkata temple inclo- sure This evidence is found in lines 12-14 of the kings well-known granite stela in C a i r~ ~here following descriptions of the mortuary temple in western Thebes and the temple a t Luxor there appears the follo~i-ing account of a hitherto un-identified structure

Ariotller nlonulrie~it which His Majesty 111tde for his father Amfin making for him a

r r i l n i (gt-) as an offering to the god -I n

oppositeg Soutllern a place ofO ~ e t ~ ~ ~ arnusernent for my Father in his goodly festi- va l (~ ) In it I erected a great templeM1 (which is) like the Sun (Rc)when it appears in glory on the horizon and ~vhich is planted with all (kinds of) flowers Fair is the Primaeval Water (inla) which ii in its lake at every season4g2

8 See above pp 178 and 182

1x5 Ko 34025 See Lacau Stkles ilu Touuel E m p i r e 11 S V I The text as restored by Sethy I contains a t~rirnber of iniswritings which are emended by Spiegel- berg in R e c l r a a S X 4CL43 (see esp p 41 UII 5-9)

l a gHl-I lr -n before the face of facing-here I believe in the sense of directly across (the iVile) from Compare the common expression for west- err1 Thebes Bft-l~in b s Opposite-her-Lord ( I i7b 111 276 b)

The temple of Luxor On a map of Thebes a line drau-n from the sanctuary of the Lrixor temple a r ~ d projected westward a t right angles to the corirse of the river passes just to the north of the palace area

(I t -nr r t a stock expression uot really in- dicative of the actual size of the temple which irl this case happeus to have bee11 relatively small

(its) water-like the pouring forth of the Inun- dation (Hpy)a4 created by the Lord of Eter- nity Numerous are the possessions of the place The taxes of every country are received and plentiful tribute is brought before my Father being the presentations of all lands

Aside from the comments made in the footnotes there seems to be nothing which needs to be added to this description of what would appear to have been the northern quarter of the Malkata palace except to note that for an inscription of its type and period it is unusually accurate and complete

IX MISCELLANEOUS INSCRIPTIONS

Among the few inscribed objects found in the ruins of the palace which do not belong to one of the eight categories al- ready discussed were two fragments of a name-stone of H a t ~ h e p s u t ~ ~ j picked up by Lansing in November 1917 in the vil- lage area to the n-est of the North Pa1ace here can be little doubt that the stone

came originally from the temple of Hat- shepsut and Thutmose I11 at Medinet Habu where numerous examples of the same type have been found4 and that it had wandered thence into the palace area at a relatively recent date

Mixed in with the fragments of in-scribed jars from the Palace of the King were two potsherds with portions of Eighteenth Dynasty hieratic copies of two famous literary texts the Instruction of hmenemhet I (Fig 39 4)495 and a n-ell-

4 0 2 Thanks u e may suppose to the channel con- necting the Uirket Habri with the Nile (see Engelbach and 12facaldin B u l l rle I I n s t rlampgple XS52)

4 9 3 See the second column of the table of Fig 16 above

4 0 1 See De Brick On the 3Ieaning of the Name fPpj Orzentalza S e e r l a n d z c a 1049 pp 1-22

6 Ou stones of this type see my O s t r a k a a n d Tame- S t o n r s pp 45-46

4 9 6 See eg Holscher E r c a c a t i o n o M e d i n e t I I a b u 1132 Figs 27 28

0 Small portions of the begitlr~irlg of the text (Pap Sallier 11 1-2) are preserved

242 JOURNAL S~UDIESOF NEAREASTERK

known model letter of the earlier Middle Iiingdom (Fig 39 5)498

MTith the exception of some pieces of in- scribed alabaster vases from the store- rooms of the Temple of Amdn499 of xvhich unhappily I can find no copies or photo- graphs this completes the corpus of Eighteenth Dynasty inscriptions recov-erecl from the palace by the Metropolitan 3luseums espedibion A few Late Dynas- tic burials with inscribed coffins some Demotic ostraka and half a dozen in- scribed amphorae of the Greco-Roman Period were also found but these have no bearing on the history of the Malkata as

a royal residence-a history which seems to have ended abruptly vith the rise of the Nineteenth Dynasty

Exclusive of Amenhotep I11 himself thirteen royal persons are mentioned on inscribed objects found within the con- fines of the Malkata palace Though the names of some of these persons appear on objects or in contests of no particular his- torical significance it seems desirable nevertheless to list them all in chronologi- cal order accompanied by indications of the types and quantities of the inscrip- tions in which they occur

Hatshepsut I name-stone probably from rtledinet Habu Thutmose 111 4 document-sealings (Types S 1 2 Fig 31) 4

scarabs (Types R 24-27 Fig 34) Amenliotep 11 2 document-sealings (Type S 3 Fig 31) Tllutnlose I V 9 jar-labels (Types 31 32 45 Figs 5 t i ) 2 docu-

ment-sealings (Types S 4 5 Fig 31) Queen JIute~nuya I jar-label (Type 64 Fig 7) Queer1 Tiy I jar-label (Type 98 Fig 8) numerous brick

stimys (Types 111 IT Fig 30) 32 ring bezels (Types R 12-16 Fig 34) 2 scarabs (p 233 and n 419) 1 kohl-tube and 2 rase fragment^ (Fig 35 d q r)

Tlic Kings (Great) Wife (=T iy ) 26 jar-labels (Types 7 18 94 129 147 172 207 Figs 4 8 10 11 1314) 1jar-sealing (Tgt-pe 0 Fig 26)

Queen Sitarniln 51 jar-labels (Types 94-97 112 113 137 139 Figs8911) 2 ring bezels (Type R 17 Fig 34)

Princess Henettoneb Rlentioned on a sandstone stela (Figs 37 bot-tom 39 3)

Irince Arnenhotep (=Amenliotep IV ) 1 jar-sealing (Type KK Fig 27) ilmenhotep IV (ilkhenaten) 3 document-sealings (Types S 97 120 124 Fig

33) 1 ring bezel (Type H 18 Fig 34) Smenklikar 2 ring bezels (Types R 19 20 Fig 34) Tutcankhnmtin I ring bezel (Type R 21 Fig 34) (JueenAnkhesenamOn (CZrlkhesenpatten) 1 document-sealing (Type P 125 Fig 33) 1 ring

bezel (Type R 22 Fig 34) Horelnlieb 1 fragment of sandstone doorjamb (Fig 37 1q1-

per right)

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three n f r - ~ i g n s ~ ~ ~ in the other (b) fol- lowed by the epithet [beloved of] Amen- It Lord of Heaven

The prenomen of Amenhotep 111 (Kebmac[rEc]) appears in the openwork design of a handsome but unfortunately fragmentary bracelet of bright-blue fai- ence (r)

The lo]-er part of a kohl-tube of yellow faience with the inscriptions encrusted in deep-purplish-blue glaze (d) bears the cartouche of Queen Tiy and the wish -lay she live Fragments of t xo similar tubes in white faience (j)and pale-green faience ( k ) were inscribed also in dark blue n-ith the titles and name of the king The Good God Lord of the Two Lands NebmacrEc [given] life43a

-4 white faience lotus-petal pendant (f)439 is tipped with a blob of yellow glaze and adorned in dark-blue glaze with the prenomen-cartouche of Amenhotep I11 surmountetl by the solar disk (red) and double plume Part of the same cartouche without the plumes appears in dark blue on a fragment of a molded lotus-flower ornament of pale green and white fay- ence ( h ) 440

The most interesting of the vase frag- ments is a small piece from the side of a blue fafence goblet (g) engraved on the exterior with part of a Scd-festival scene441 At the right the king appears heated in a pavillion wearing the Crown of Lon-er Egypt and holding in his hands the crook and flail At the left above

4 1 r Cf Hall op c i t No 2880 Daressy Fouil lrs No 24298 4 Petrie S i x T p n ~ p l e s P1 V 11 The ud3t-eye alone appears on most of the examples cited above in n 435 The design shown in Fig 34 is repeated on the other side of the throw-stick in this case however w-ith the throne-name of the king (NebmacrGc) The fragment was found by Lansing during the season of 1917-18 in a house south of the Temple of Aman

4 3 8 A third example in green faience (MMA Acc No 11215493) preserves a minute portion of the same inscription

4 3 9 Cf A n ~ a r n a P1 XX Citw I I P1 XXSVI 1 2

4 4 0 Cf i n ~ a r n o P1 XIX C i t y 1 1 P1 XXXVI 1 2

an arm holding the symbol of (many years and having suspended from it one or more related symbols can be made out the lower part of the cnrtouche with the name ([Amen]hotep Ruler of Thebes

A fragmentary vase of white faience (e) and another of yellow faience (not

both decorated and inscribed in dark blue preserve on their sides parts of a rectangular panel with the names and titles of the king The Good God Neb- macrF the Son of RElt Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given [life] forever and por- tions of the kings cartouches appear on fragments of three blue faience dishes -(1 0 and p) and on a segment of a white faience jar-lid (m)Pieces of a jar of blue faience (y) and a saucer of gray fai-ence (r)444 carry the cartouche of Queen Tiy in the first instance accompanying that of the king A small globular vase of pale-green paste represented by the frag- ment (11)) had around its middle an in- cised band of hieroglyphs of which there remain only the words stability well-being and jo[y] -obviously from a long royal titulary In addition there are fragments of two little vases of purple and turquoise-blue n-ith engraved panels of inscription similar to that of the faience vase ( e )

The remaining item shown in Figure 35 (i) is a thin strip of ebony inlay prob- ably from a box or a piece of furniture I ts incised inscription once filled with yellow paint comprises the nbty-name of

4 4 1 I have found no exact parallel to the composi- tion seen here but the elements occur in numerorls representations of this stage of the Sed-festival eg Gayet Temple de Louror P1 LXXI Big 177 ( = L U 111 P1 74 d l Winlock J E B IV P1 IV Chevrier A n n Ser t XLVII 170 P1 XXVI Bisson do la Roque Fouil les I n s t f r Ca i re VIII P1 VII I See also Frankfort K i n g s h i p and the Gods chap vi

4 4 31x1-4 BCc NO11215494 d 4 3 Dark-blue faIence with light-blue lueroglyphs 4 4 4 The inscription of ( q ) is dark blue that of ( r ) is

white 4 d j AIJIA Acc Xos 11215505 and 507

Amenhotep I11 (the T~vo-Goddesses Establisher-of-Laws- (and-)Pacifier-of-the- T ~ v o - L a n d s ) ~ ~ ~followed by the title the Good God which normally precedes the throne-name of the king

VIII MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION8

Probably never very numerous the in- scriptions of this class which have been re- covered from the scanty and thoroughly plundered ruins of the palace buildings are few in number and for the most part ex- tremely fragmentary The majority of them come from the Temple of Amfin which though built of brick like the rest of the palace was provided with inscribed doorframes offering tables stelae and statues of stone and included several rooms the I-alls of which Tvere adorned with moldings ornamental patterns and inscriptions of gilded ~vood and plaster inlaid with blue faience tiles

Since all but one of the pieces of stone plaster and tilework bearing these in-scriptions were reburied at Thehes before the conclusion of the 31useum1s escava- tions in 1920 our knowledge of them is derived almost entirely from photographs sketches hand copies and notes made in the field by Winlock White and Lansing and it is these records now in New York which have provided the illustrations of Figures 36-39 and which form the basis of the discussion to follo~v Sever for ex- ample having seen the fragments of in- scribed offering tables from the palaces rlemple of Amiin I have in Figure 38 simply reprduced a photograph of Lan- sings original pencil sketches of these fragments rearranged and relabeled but otherwise untouched

In the Palace of the King the painted plaster ceiling of the pharaohs bedcham- her had heen decorated down its middle with a succession of great spread vul- t u r e ~ ~ ~ under the wings of each of which

4 4 6 Gauthier 1irre d e ro i i 11 306 ff

were painted in large detailed hieroglyphs the titles and names of Amenhotep 111 Enough fragments of fallen plaster were foundon the floor of the ruined chamber to restore one pair of the inscriptions and a hand copy of these (taken from Win- locks notes for February 1 1911) is given at the top of Figure 39 (1)On the right under the left wing of the vulture one read The Good God Lord of the TWO Lands Nebmacrec Chosen of Rec given life and on the left separated from the foregoing by the legs and tail of the bird The Son of Re Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given life The nomen-cartouche in the latter inscription had been painted over with ~vhitewash-evidently by fol-

lowers of the Aten desirous of obliterating the name of Amiin wherever it occurred448 These appear to have been the only monu- mental inscriptions found by the Muse- ums expedition anywhere in the palace area outside of the inclosure of the Temple of A m i ~ n ~ ~ ~

One of the most interesting pieces of stone discovered in the temple was part of the tip of the plumed headdress of a colossal statue of the god Amfin in dark- gray porphyritic d i ~ r i t e ~ ~ (Fig 36 top) The width of the remaining plume (23 cm) compared with the correspond- ing measurement on the well-known group of- Amiin and Tutcankhamiin in the Louvre451 indicates that the Xllalkata

44 Winlock Bull MMA 1912 p 186 See also Tytus P r e l i m i n a r R e p o r t pp 18 20 and cf Capart L S r t amp g y p t i e n I PI 147 Prisse dnvennes IIilttuirc iie l ar t i g y p t i e n ttins I trchitecture PI [I

4 s Cf Tytus o p r i t p 10

4 9 See however i b id pp 10 25

450 A stone often and (I am told) incorrectly tle- scribed as black granite The fragment which is 46 cm in height and 30 cm in width was found by Lansing during the season of 1916-17 near the cen- tral portion of the temple proper Pieces of probably the same statue (described as unimportant frag-ments of a black granite statue) were found by White during the preceding season in the same general locality

4 5 1 Benedite M o n u m e n t s P io t S S I V 47-68 See also E n c y r l o p P d i e p h o t o g r a p h i y u r d e l a r t 1 L e ~ l l u s i e d u L o u v r e pp 78-79

statue when complete n-as 440 meters or ahout fourteen ant1 a half feet in height A s in the Louvre group the got1 as pro)- ably represented seated on a throne Ivith perhaps a smaller figure of the king stand- ing or kneeling before him452 Admirably carved and beautifully finished the statue may have been the temples principal cult image though its huge size tends to mili- tate against this-53 I ts back pilaster car- ried three vertical coliimns of incised hieroglyphic inscriptions of which are pre-

served the groups [Q] 1

r r-hat the tops of the sec-

ond and third columns respectively (Fig 36 upper right)

A fragment of sandstone door-lintel (Fig 36 lower left) found lying on the sur- face of the ground inside the temple in- losu sure^^^ was photographed by Evelyn FThite during the season of 1914-15 The piece measures 70 cm in length and 83 cm in height the lintel having been originally about 107 cm high-a sizable block of stone Its decoration lightly incised anti somewhat carelessly executed was whol- ly conventional a winged suns disk and helon- it two horizontal lines of inscrip tion with the titles and names of Amen- hotep III05 The kings prenomen [Neb]- ma [re ] with the epithet Heir of Re ( i l l s - f R-) included in the cartouche is fairly c ~ m m o n ~ occurring for example on a piece of re-used() sandstone relief found in the temple of Eye and IIorem- heb14j7which lies about a kilometer to the north of the palace area The tops of the

signs 18 a t its extreme left end are all

3 See Varille K a r n a k I 8-9 PI X V 4 5 3 See Holscher hxcavatzon o l f e d z n ~ f Hahu

IIT 26 154 White Bul l f~f-l1915 p 256 Lansing Bull

1fMd Alarch 1918 Supp lement p 8 4 2 5 Cf Varille K a r n a k I PI XII 17 456 Gauthier Lzvre des roiu 11 316 X X I X 317

SSS318 X S X I V 4 5 7 Hiilscher Excanalion o Medinet Habu 11 101

PI 43 n

that remain of the second line of inscrip- tion

A pair of fragmentary sandst onc tloor- jaml)s (Fig 36 lower right) though similar in style are smaller in scale than the lintel measuring only 20 cm in width the right jamb being preserved to a height of 70 cm They are from Lansings excavations of 1916-17 in the templearea Each evidently bore one of the names of Amenhotep 111 f ollo~r-ed by the expressions beloved of such-and-such a divinity and given life like RP forever Flre may guess that on the left jamb the deity referred to was Amen-Re [Lord of] Heaven and what remains of the signs a t the top of the frag- ment of the right jamb suggests the name of the goddess Shesmet (Ssmtt)45~luch more interesting than the principal in-scriptions are the tu-o small lines of text written near the bottom of the right jamb and given in hand copy in Figure 39 2 These inform us that the doorway or the structure to which it belonged was made under the direction of the Treasurer of the King of Lower Egypt the StolistGq of 3Iin-Amfin the Fourth Prophet of Amiin Simtit the justified

A prominent member of the hierarchy of hmiin Simiit is named as Fourth Prophet of the god in a statue inscription in Brussels together n-ith his three superi- ors the First Prophet Bleryptah the Second Prophet (and brother-in-law of the king) ltAnen and the Third Prophet Amenemhet460 Since the inscription re-ferred to is dated to Year 20 of Amenho- tep I11 and the chapel of Amiin in the Jfalkata palace was probably built for the celebration of the kings second Sed-

0 W b IT538 Budge Dic t ionary p 753 Gard O n 11 125

4 5 9 S m See Grdseloff A n n Serl XLITI 357 f f The title Stolist of AIin-ArnGn was borne in the Nineteenth Dynasty by IEhaCeniwast a so11 of the High Priest of B m h Wepwawetnlose (Lefebvre Histoire des yrands pramptres c l i ln~o7t p 240)

460 Capart and Spiegelberg -4 n 71 Sac A r eh d e Brurel les XVI 167 Fig 2

festival in Year 34461 it mould appear that Simtit held the rank of Fourth Prophet for about fourteen years462 Before the end of his career he was elevated to the grade of Second Prophet of Amiin and is so re- ferred to on toTo statues3 and two shawnbty-figure~~~4in the Cairo Museum He appears in the reliefs of the temple at Soleb participating in the celebration of Amenhotep 111s first Heb-~ed~ and lvas the owner of a decorated tomb on the Dira abul Naga at ThebesG6 On one of his statues in Cairo467 he bears the title First Kings Son of Amiin and the presence of his name on a doorway of one of the kings temples suggests that like ane en he -as related to Amenh~t~ep I11 either by blood or by marriage The fact that he was evi- dently in charge of what during the reign of Amenhotep I11 must have been the fourth most important of tmhe Theban temples of Amtin further suggests that there oras some sort of nominal division of responsibility between the four prophets of the god-the High Priest presiding at Karnak and delegating the immediate supervision of the Luxor temple the kings mortuary temple and the Malkata

401 See above p 85

402 Possibly less Sirniit may have received his ap- pointment as Fourth Prophet in Year 20 itself and the Malkata temple may have been built and inscribed a year or two before the celebration of the second Heb-sed During the reigns of Sethy I and Ramesses 11 Bakenkhonsu who eventually became High Priest of Amfin served twelve years as a Father of the God flf- teen years as Third Prophet and twelve years as Sec- ond Prophet (Lefebvre Hzstozre des g r a n d s p r l t r r s p 128)

463 Borchardt S t a t u e n t l nd S ta tue t t en 111161 Ko 932 IV 60 IGo 1107

4 6 4 Mariette Cat yl n des m o n u m e n t s d d b y d o s Nos 389 and 3 9 0 incorrectly dated by SIariette (and Lefebvre o p czt p 24 K O 1) to the late Middle K~ngdom The two Simiits listed by Lefebvre ( l ac czt IGos 1 and 9) are clearly one and the same man

465 Lepsius D e n k m u l e r 111PI 84 b

468 Porter-Sfoss T o p B i b l I 187 1 Varille A n n Seru S L 642 n 3

4 6 7 No 1107 See above n 483

temple to the Second Third and Fourth Prophets respectively

Similt may also have been the o-ner of a rough little sandstone stela a few bat- tered fragments of 11-hich mere recovered by Lansing from the ruins of the temple proper and are shown in the photograph at the bottom of Figure 37 A rectangular slab something over 45 cm in thickness the stela Ivas once painted white with blue hieroglyphs and red dividing lines the latter spaced on the average 3 em apart Preserved are parts of a seven-line inscription surmounting an incised design of indeterminate nature and comprising portions of the autobiography of a priest or temple official of Amtin With the aid of Lansings hand copy a revised version of which is given in Figure 39 (3) we can make out the following phrases

(1) the Prince of Princes468 [intro]ducetl me into the House of Amfin

(2) for his469 son Nehmacrei who be- longs to

(3) - V amp [ ~ ] W ( )a long lifetime as king living

(4) life() great of victories ( 5 ) Went [dou~n] the Kings [Daughter]

HenettonehQ in front of (6) great of hirn who causes rnonu-

ment which is (7) in the place the gods words which

he recited Mention has already been made of the

tile and gilded plaster decoration of a row

6 Probably Amenhotep 111 (see Varille A n n Sera XXXIII 93-94 XXXIV 13-16 Capart C h r o n d Eq X 322-24 Gauthier Liare des ro i s 11 315 XXV 316 XXVIII) though the epithet F k l h g i w was current before his time being borne for example by Amenhotep I1on his great quartzite stela from Sakkiireh (1 34 Badaw-i A n n S e r e XLII 23 P1 I)

468 ilmiins There is however a bare possibility that the pronoun and the epithet Prince of Princes in the preceding line refer to Thutmose IV

4 7 0 Amenhotep 111ssecond eldest daughter and the senior princess following Sitamiins elevation to the status of queen See Gauthier o p ci t 11 341-42 Hayes Bull M M d 1948 pp 272 276-78

horizon4 M a y he he given4 life stability md well-being [forever]

Thc expression Offering-of-the-1lt001 (wdn 11 tp-ht) leaves little room for doubt that these small stone basins formed part of the furnishings of an elevated open-air sanctuary of the type dedicated to the worship of the sun-god (Rec of the Roof479 and known from texts of the Twentieth Dynasty and later times to have been called the House of RP of the Roof of the House of Amtin4xo Such a sanctuary existed in the great temple a t Karnak as early as the reign of Thut-mose III481and the presence of one in so small and unimportant a temple as that of the Llalkata palace indicates how prevalent shrines of this type must have been in the Amtin temples of the period

Since the function of our offering tables was presumably to receive libations and gifts of food presented to the sun-god it seems frivolous to suggest that they I-ould also have been useful for catching the fresh myrrh and fresh incense which Heaven in tn70 Eighteenth Dynasty in- scriptions is said to rain down upon the roofs of royal temples482

A glance a t the plan of the northern- most quarter of the palace published by

in 1918shows that the Temple

4 7 7 R-m](~c)[(n)RCwbnm iht ] Cf Aeg Inschr Brr- lin 11182No 7290 For Rec wenlightperhaps sub- stitute Aten (the disk of the sun not the god of Amarna) as in Berlin 7274 and 7271 (deg Inschr 11 154 and 105)

[I di] nb etc Cf Cairo 23040 23073 (Ka-mal op cit)

4 7 9 R tp-hl or R m tp-ht (Re in the Roof) a form of the god worshiped as early as the reigu of Kir~g Sahurec of the Fifth Dynasty and referred to in two places on the Palermo Stoue (verso 3 1 and 4 3 Schafer Ein Bruchstuck altagyptischer Annalen pp 36 and 39)

4 8 Pr-RC tp-ht Pr-Imn See the references giveu in (iard On 11 216 under -4 462 and in Kees Orirntalia XVIII 436-30

Icees op cit pp 427-42

48 Spiegelberg 24~LIII 99

fl Op cil p 9

of Amtin properly speaking occupied only the c+entral section of a long ljuiltiing cstcntling across the tcrracactl 11cst eritl of a vast ~valletl inclosure (see nlho Pig 1 above) The northern lying of this build- ing appears to have been given over to offices and magazines-probably for the contributions to the kings second Neb-scd -but the richly decorated rooms at its southern end were certainly intended for some less utilitarian purpose and its southeast corner was taken up by a luxuri- ously appointed dwelling house or small palace On the north sitie of the main in- closure are the remains of a large multi- piered huilding nhich is believed to have been the kings Srd-festival anti adjoining this on the west a succession of courts and smaller buildings To the south and east of the inclosure are the ruins of other structures including several large and handsome villas There is every probability that the inclosure once con-tained a big rectangular pool of r ~ - a t e r ~ ~ ~ fed perhaps from the principal palace lake the present-day Birket IIabu

Some distance south of the main city at Tell el hmarna there is a generally similar architectural layout consisting of two big rectangular inclosures lying side by side and containing in addition to pools villas magazines and other build- ings a small temple This temple was presumably dedicated to the Aten and the whole complex was called the m3rur or pleasure-precinct() of the Aten- usually referred to by modern ~vriters simply as ilIaru-hten486

Like Pr-hcy the name nhich he used

4 See above p 85

A usual feature of the larger ancient Egyptian courtyards and one which would explain the complete absence of building remains in the central portion of this inclosure

8 8 City I chap v Pls S X I X fl The riame XIarll- 4teuW and the word m3ria are discussed by Ciu11n 011 pp 133-58

the and its wine is (even) more plentifulm3 than for his principal palace a t A m a r ~ ~ a ~ ~ ~ term m3rw was probably derived by Akhenaten from some portion of his fathers palace at Thebes where how- ever the full name ~vould in all likelihood have been the m3rw of Amiin Granted that a part of the Theban palace was so named n-e can hardly doubt that the part in question was the isolated northern quarter with the temple and inclosure of Amiin

Fortunately there is inscriptional evi- dence to show that hmenhotep I11actual-ly did build a Maru-Amtin across the river from Luxor in the general locality -

occupied by the illalkata temple inclo- sure This evidence is found in lines 12-14 of the kings well-known granite stela in C a i r~ ~here following descriptions of the mortuary temple in western Thebes and the temple a t Luxor there appears the follo~i-ing account of a hitherto un-identified structure

Ariotller nlonulrie~it which His Majesty 111tde for his father Amfin making for him a

r r i l n i (gt-) as an offering to the god -I n

oppositeg Soutllern a place ofO ~ e t ~ ~ ~ arnusernent for my Father in his goodly festi- va l (~ ) In it I erected a great templeM1 (which is) like the Sun (Rc)when it appears in glory on the horizon and ~vhich is planted with all (kinds of) flowers Fair is the Primaeval Water (inla) which ii in its lake at every season4g2

8 See above pp 178 and 182

1x5 Ko 34025 See Lacau Stkles ilu Touuel E m p i r e 11 S V I The text as restored by Sethy I contains a t~rirnber of iniswritings which are emended by Spiegel- berg in R e c l r a a S X 4CL43 (see esp p 41 UII 5-9)

l a gHl-I lr -n before the face of facing-here I believe in the sense of directly across (the iVile) from Compare the common expression for west- err1 Thebes Bft-l~in b s Opposite-her-Lord ( I i7b 111 276 b)

The temple of Luxor On a map of Thebes a line drau-n from the sanctuary of the Lrixor temple a r ~ d projected westward a t right angles to the corirse of the river passes just to the north of the palace area

(I t -nr r t a stock expression uot really in- dicative of the actual size of the temple which irl this case happeus to have bee11 relatively small

(its) water-like the pouring forth of the Inun- dation (Hpy)a4 created by the Lord of Eter- nity Numerous are the possessions of the place The taxes of every country are received and plentiful tribute is brought before my Father being the presentations of all lands

Aside from the comments made in the footnotes there seems to be nothing which needs to be added to this description of what would appear to have been the northern quarter of the Malkata palace except to note that for an inscription of its type and period it is unusually accurate and complete

IX MISCELLANEOUS INSCRIPTIONS

Among the few inscribed objects found in the ruins of the palace which do not belong to one of the eight categories al- ready discussed were two fragments of a name-stone of H a t ~ h e p s u t ~ ~ j picked up by Lansing in November 1917 in the vil- lage area to the n-est of the North Pa1ace here can be little doubt that the stone

came originally from the temple of Hat- shepsut and Thutmose I11 at Medinet Habu where numerous examples of the same type have been found4 and that it had wandered thence into the palace area at a relatively recent date

Mixed in with the fragments of in-scribed jars from the Palace of the King were two potsherds with portions of Eighteenth Dynasty hieratic copies of two famous literary texts the Instruction of hmenemhet I (Fig 39 4)495 and a n-ell-

4 0 2 Thanks u e may suppose to the channel con- necting the Uirket Habri with the Nile (see Engelbach and 12facaldin B u l l rle I I n s t rlampgple XS52)

4 9 3 See the second column of the table of Fig 16 above

4 0 1 See De Brick On the 3Ieaning of the Name fPpj Orzentalza S e e r l a n d z c a 1049 pp 1-22

6 Ou stones of this type see my O s t r a k a a n d Tame- S t o n r s pp 45-46

4 9 6 See eg Holscher E r c a c a t i o n o M e d i n e t I I a b u 1132 Figs 27 28

0 Small portions of the begitlr~irlg of the text (Pap Sallier 11 1-2) are preserved

242 JOURNAL S~UDIESOF NEAREASTERK

known model letter of the earlier Middle Iiingdom (Fig 39 5)498

MTith the exception of some pieces of in- scribed alabaster vases from the store- rooms of the Temple of Amdn499 of xvhich unhappily I can find no copies or photo- graphs this completes the corpus of Eighteenth Dynasty inscriptions recov-erecl from the palace by the Metropolitan 3luseums espedibion A few Late Dynas- tic burials with inscribed coffins some Demotic ostraka and half a dozen in- scribed amphorae of the Greco-Roman Period were also found but these have no bearing on the history of the Malkata as

a royal residence-a history which seems to have ended abruptly vith the rise of the Nineteenth Dynasty

Exclusive of Amenhotep I11 himself thirteen royal persons are mentioned on inscribed objects found within the con- fines of the Malkata palace Though the names of some of these persons appear on objects or in contests of no particular his- torical significance it seems desirable nevertheless to list them all in chronologi- cal order accompanied by indications of the types and quantities of the inscrip- tions in which they occur

Hatshepsut I name-stone probably from rtledinet Habu Thutmose 111 4 document-sealings (Types S 1 2 Fig 31) 4

scarabs (Types R 24-27 Fig 34) Amenliotep 11 2 document-sealings (Type S 3 Fig 31) Tllutnlose I V 9 jar-labels (Types 31 32 45 Figs 5 t i ) 2 docu-

ment-sealings (Types S 4 5 Fig 31) Queen JIute~nuya I jar-label (Type 64 Fig 7) Queer1 Tiy I jar-label (Type 98 Fig 8) numerous brick

stimys (Types 111 IT Fig 30) 32 ring bezels (Types R 12-16 Fig 34) 2 scarabs (p 233 and n 419) 1 kohl-tube and 2 rase fragment^ (Fig 35 d q r)

Tlic Kings (Great) Wife (=T iy ) 26 jar-labels (Types 7 18 94 129 147 172 207 Figs 4 8 10 11 1314) 1jar-sealing (Tgt-pe 0 Fig 26)

Queen Sitarniln 51 jar-labels (Types 94-97 112 113 137 139 Figs8911) 2 ring bezels (Type R 17 Fig 34)

Princess Henettoneb Rlentioned on a sandstone stela (Figs 37 bot-tom 39 3)

Irince Arnenhotep (=Amenliotep IV ) 1 jar-sealing (Type KK Fig 27) ilmenhotep IV (ilkhenaten) 3 document-sealings (Types S 97 120 124 Fig

33) 1 ring bezel (Type H 18 Fig 34) Smenklikar 2 ring bezels (Types R 19 20 Fig 34) Tutcankhnmtin I ring bezel (Type R 21 Fig 34) (JueenAnkhesenamOn (CZrlkhesenpatten) 1 document-sealing (Type P 125 Fig 33) 1 ring

bezel (Type R 22 Fig 34) Horelnlieb 1 fragment of sandstone doorjamb (Fig 37 1q1-

per right)

METROPOLITAN OF ARTMUSEUM NEW YORE

4s Hayes JSES VII 1-10 (see P I I 11 I artd 3 ) 99 Lansirig o p ci t p 12 Pusener in v a n cle TValle L a T r a n s m i e s i o r ~ des f(+tes 1itttraires Egypt iens pp 41-50

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Amenhotep I11 (the T~vo-Goddesses Establisher-of-Laws- (and-)Pacifier-of-the- T ~ v o - L a n d s ) ~ ~ ~followed by the title the Good God which normally precedes the throne-name of the king

VIII MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION8

Probably never very numerous the in- scriptions of this class which have been re- covered from the scanty and thoroughly plundered ruins of the palace buildings are few in number and for the most part ex- tremely fragmentary The majority of them come from the Temple of Amfin which though built of brick like the rest of the palace was provided with inscribed doorframes offering tables stelae and statues of stone and included several rooms the I-alls of which Tvere adorned with moldings ornamental patterns and inscriptions of gilded ~vood and plaster inlaid with blue faience tiles

Since all but one of the pieces of stone plaster and tilework bearing these in-scriptions were reburied at Thehes before the conclusion of the 31useum1s escava- tions in 1920 our knowledge of them is derived almost entirely from photographs sketches hand copies and notes made in the field by Winlock White and Lansing and it is these records now in New York which have provided the illustrations of Figures 36-39 and which form the basis of the discussion to follo~v Sever for ex- ample having seen the fragments of in- scribed offering tables from the palaces rlemple of Amiin I have in Figure 38 simply reprduced a photograph of Lan- sings original pencil sketches of these fragments rearranged and relabeled but otherwise untouched

In the Palace of the King the painted plaster ceiling of the pharaohs bedcham- her had heen decorated down its middle with a succession of great spread vul- t u r e ~ ~ ~ under the wings of each of which

4 4 6 Gauthier 1irre d e ro i i 11 306 ff

were painted in large detailed hieroglyphs the titles and names of Amenhotep 111 Enough fragments of fallen plaster were foundon the floor of the ruined chamber to restore one pair of the inscriptions and a hand copy of these (taken from Win- locks notes for February 1 1911) is given at the top of Figure 39 (1)On the right under the left wing of the vulture one read The Good God Lord of the TWO Lands Nebmacrec Chosen of Rec given life and on the left separated from the foregoing by the legs and tail of the bird The Son of Re Amenhotep Ruler of Thebes given life The nomen-cartouche in the latter inscription had been painted over with ~vhitewash-evidently by fol-

lowers of the Aten desirous of obliterating the name of Amiin wherever it occurred448 These appear to have been the only monu- mental inscriptions found by the Muse- ums expedition anywhere in the palace area outside of the inclosure of the Temple of A m i ~ n ~ ~ ~

One of the most interesting pieces of stone discovered in the temple was part of the tip of the plumed headdress of a colossal statue of the god Amfin in dark- gray porphyritic d i ~ r i t e ~ ~ (Fig 36 top) The width of the remaining plume (23 cm) compared with the correspond- ing measurement on the well-known group of- Amiin and Tutcankhamiin in the Louvre451 indicates that the Xllalkata

44 Winlock Bull MMA 1912 p 186 See also Tytus P r e l i m i n a r R e p o r t pp 18 20 and cf Capart L S r t amp g y p t i e n I PI 147 Prisse dnvennes IIilttuirc iie l ar t i g y p t i e n ttins I trchitecture PI [I

4 s Cf Tytus o p r i t p 10

4 9 See however i b id pp 10 25

450 A stone often and (I am told) incorrectly tle- scribed as black granite The fragment which is 46 cm in height and 30 cm in width was found by Lansing during the season of 1916-17 near the cen- tral portion of the temple proper Pieces of probably the same statue (described as unimportant frag-ments of a black granite statue) were found by White during the preceding season in the same general locality

4 5 1 Benedite M o n u m e n t s P io t S S I V 47-68 See also E n c y r l o p P d i e p h o t o g r a p h i y u r d e l a r t 1 L e ~ l l u s i e d u L o u v r e pp 78-79

statue when complete n-as 440 meters or ahout fourteen ant1 a half feet in height A s in the Louvre group the got1 as pro)- ably represented seated on a throne Ivith perhaps a smaller figure of the king stand- ing or kneeling before him452 Admirably carved and beautifully finished the statue may have been the temples principal cult image though its huge size tends to mili- tate against this-53 I ts back pilaster car- ried three vertical coliimns of incised hieroglyphic inscriptions of which are pre-

served the groups [Q] 1

r r-hat the tops of the sec-

ond and third columns respectively (Fig 36 upper right)

A fragment of sandstone door-lintel (Fig 36 lower left) found lying on the sur- face of the ground inside the temple in- losu sure^^^ was photographed by Evelyn FThite during the season of 1914-15 The piece measures 70 cm in length and 83 cm in height the lintel having been originally about 107 cm high-a sizable block of stone Its decoration lightly incised anti somewhat carelessly executed was whol- ly conventional a winged suns disk and helon- it two horizontal lines of inscrip tion with the titles and names of Amen- hotep III05 The kings prenomen [Neb]- ma [re ] with the epithet Heir of Re ( i l l s - f R-) included in the cartouche is fairly c ~ m m o n ~ occurring for example on a piece of re-used() sandstone relief found in the temple of Eye and IIorem- heb14j7which lies about a kilometer to the north of the palace area The tops of the

signs 18 a t its extreme left end are all

3 See Varille K a r n a k I 8-9 PI X V 4 5 3 See Holscher hxcavatzon o l f e d z n ~ f Hahu

IIT 26 154 White Bul l f~f-l1915 p 256 Lansing Bull

1fMd Alarch 1918 Supp lement p 8 4 2 5 Cf Varille K a r n a k I PI XII 17 456 Gauthier Lzvre des roiu 11 316 X X I X 317

SSS318 X S X I V 4 5 7 Hiilscher Excanalion o Medinet Habu 11 101

PI 43 n

that remain of the second line of inscrip- tion

A pair of fragmentary sandst onc tloor- jaml)s (Fig 36 lower right) though similar in style are smaller in scale than the lintel measuring only 20 cm in width the right jamb being preserved to a height of 70 cm They are from Lansings excavations of 1916-17 in the templearea Each evidently bore one of the names of Amenhotep 111 f ollo~r-ed by the expressions beloved of such-and-such a divinity and given life like RP forever Flre may guess that on the left jamb the deity referred to was Amen-Re [Lord of] Heaven and what remains of the signs a t the top of the frag- ment of the right jamb suggests the name of the goddess Shesmet (Ssmtt)45~luch more interesting than the principal in-scriptions are the tu-o small lines of text written near the bottom of the right jamb and given in hand copy in Figure 39 2 These inform us that the doorway or the structure to which it belonged was made under the direction of the Treasurer of the King of Lower Egypt the StolistGq of 3Iin-Amfin the Fourth Prophet of Amiin Simtit the justified

A prominent member of the hierarchy of hmiin Simiit is named as Fourth Prophet of the god in a statue inscription in Brussels together n-ith his three superi- ors the First Prophet Bleryptah the Second Prophet (and brother-in-law of the king) ltAnen and the Third Prophet Amenemhet460 Since the inscription re-ferred to is dated to Year 20 of Amenho- tep I11 and the chapel of Amiin in the Jfalkata palace was probably built for the celebration of the kings second Sed-

0 W b IT538 Budge Dic t ionary p 753 Gard O n 11 125

4 5 9 S m See Grdseloff A n n Serl XLITI 357 f f The title Stolist of AIin-ArnGn was borne in the Nineteenth Dynasty by IEhaCeniwast a so11 of the High Priest of B m h Wepwawetnlose (Lefebvre Histoire des yrands pramptres c l i ln~o7t p 240)

460 Capart and Spiegelberg -4 n 71 Sac A r eh d e Brurel les XVI 167 Fig 2

festival in Year 34461 it mould appear that Simtit held the rank of Fourth Prophet for about fourteen years462 Before the end of his career he was elevated to the grade of Second Prophet of Amiin and is so re- ferred to on toTo statues3 and two shawnbty-figure~~~4in the Cairo Museum He appears in the reliefs of the temple at Soleb participating in the celebration of Amenhotep 111s first Heb-~ed~ and lvas the owner of a decorated tomb on the Dira abul Naga at ThebesG6 On one of his statues in Cairo467 he bears the title First Kings Son of Amiin and the presence of his name on a doorway of one of the kings temples suggests that like ane en he -as related to Amenh~t~ep I11 either by blood or by marriage The fact that he was evi- dently in charge of what during the reign of Amenhotep I11 must have been the fourth most important of tmhe Theban temples of Amtin further suggests that there oras some sort of nominal division of responsibility between the four prophets of the god-the High Priest presiding at Karnak and delegating the immediate supervision of the Luxor temple the kings mortuary temple and the Malkata

401 See above p 85

402 Possibly less Sirniit may have received his ap- pointment as Fourth Prophet in Year 20 itself and the Malkata temple may have been built and inscribed a year or two before the celebration of the second Heb-sed During the reigns of Sethy I and Ramesses 11 Bakenkhonsu who eventually became High Priest of Amfin served twelve years as a Father of the God flf- teen years as Third Prophet and twelve years as Sec- ond Prophet (Lefebvre Hzstozre des g r a n d s p r l t r r s p 128)

463 Borchardt S t a t u e n t l nd S ta tue t t en 111161 Ko 932 IV 60 IGo 1107

4 6 4 Mariette Cat yl n des m o n u m e n t s d d b y d o s Nos 389 and 3 9 0 incorrectly dated by SIariette (and Lefebvre o p czt p 24 K O 1) to the late Middle K~ngdom The two Simiits listed by Lefebvre ( l ac czt IGos 1 and 9) are clearly one and the same man

465 Lepsius D e n k m u l e r 111PI 84 b

468 Porter-Sfoss T o p B i b l I 187 1 Varille A n n Seru S L 642 n 3

4 6 7 No 1107 See above n 483

temple to the Second Third and Fourth Prophets respectively

Similt may also have been the o-ner of a rough little sandstone stela a few bat- tered fragments of 11-hich mere recovered by Lansing from the ruins of the temple proper and are shown in the photograph at the bottom of Figure 37 A rectangular slab something over 45 cm in thickness the stela Ivas once painted white with blue hieroglyphs and red dividing lines the latter spaced on the average 3 em apart Preserved are parts of a seven-line inscription surmounting an incised design of indeterminate nature and comprising portions of the autobiography of a priest or temple official of Amtin With the aid of Lansings hand copy a revised version of which is given in Figure 39 (3) we can make out the following phrases

(1) the Prince of Princes468 [intro]ducetl me into the House of Amfin

(2) for his469 son Nehmacrei who be- longs to

(3) - V amp [ ~ ] W ( )a long lifetime as king living

(4) life() great of victories ( 5 ) Went [dou~n] the Kings [Daughter]

HenettonehQ in front of (6) great of hirn who causes rnonu-

ment which is (7) in the place the gods words which

he recited Mention has already been made of the

tile and gilded plaster decoration of a row

6 Probably Amenhotep 111 (see Varille A n n Sera XXXIII 93-94 XXXIV 13-16 Capart C h r o n d Eq X 322-24 Gauthier Liare des ro i s 11 315 XXV 316 XXVIII) though the epithet F k l h g i w was current before his time being borne for example by Amenhotep I1on his great quartzite stela from Sakkiireh (1 34 Badaw-i A n n S e r e XLII 23 P1 I)

468 ilmiins There is however a bare possibility that the pronoun and the epithet Prince of Princes in the preceding line refer to Thutmose IV

4 7 0 Amenhotep 111ssecond eldest daughter and the senior princess following Sitamiins elevation to the status of queen See Gauthier o p ci t 11 341-42 Hayes Bull M M d 1948 pp 272 276-78

horizon4 M a y he he given4 life stability md well-being [forever]

Thc expression Offering-of-the-1lt001 (wdn 11 tp-ht) leaves little room for doubt that these small stone basins formed part of the furnishings of an elevated open-air sanctuary of the type dedicated to the worship of the sun-god (Rec of the Roof479 and known from texts of the Twentieth Dynasty and later times to have been called the House of RP of the Roof of the House of Amtin4xo Such a sanctuary existed in the great temple a t Karnak as early as the reign of Thut-mose III481and the presence of one in so small and unimportant a temple as that of the Llalkata palace indicates how prevalent shrines of this type must have been in the Amtin temples of the period

Since the function of our offering tables was presumably to receive libations and gifts of food presented to the sun-god it seems frivolous to suggest that they I-ould also have been useful for catching the fresh myrrh and fresh incense which Heaven in tn70 Eighteenth Dynasty in- scriptions is said to rain down upon the roofs of royal temples482

A glance a t the plan of the northern- most quarter of the palace published by

in 1918shows that the Temple

4 7 7 R-m](~c)[(n)RCwbnm iht ] Cf Aeg Inschr Brr- lin 11182No 7290 For Rec wenlightperhaps sub- stitute Aten (the disk of the sun not the god of Amarna) as in Berlin 7274 and 7271 (deg Inschr 11 154 and 105)

[I di] nb etc Cf Cairo 23040 23073 (Ka-mal op cit)

4 7 9 R tp-hl or R m tp-ht (Re in the Roof) a form of the god worshiped as early as the reigu of Kir~g Sahurec of the Fifth Dynasty and referred to in two places on the Palermo Stoue (verso 3 1 and 4 3 Schafer Ein Bruchstuck altagyptischer Annalen pp 36 and 39)

4 8 Pr-RC tp-ht Pr-Imn See the references giveu in (iard On 11 216 under -4 462 and in Kees Orirntalia XVIII 436-30

Icees op cit pp 427-42

48 Spiegelberg 24~LIII 99

fl Op cil p 9

of Amtin properly speaking occupied only the c+entral section of a long ljuiltiing cstcntling across the tcrracactl 11cst eritl of a vast ~valletl inclosure (see nlho Pig 1 above) The northern lying of this build- ing appears to have been given over to offices and magazines-probably for the contributions to the kings second Neb-scd -but the richly decorated rooms at its southern end were certainly intended for some less utilitarian purpose and its southeast corner was taken up by a luxuri- ously appointed dwelling house or small palace On the north sitie of the main in- closure are the remains of a large multi- piered huilding nhich is believed to have been the kings Srd-festival anti adjoining this on the west a succession of courts and smaller buildings To the south and east of the inclosure are the ruins of other structures including several large and handsome villas There is every probability that the inclosure once con-tained a big rectangular pool of r ~ - a t e r ~ ~ ~ fed perhaps from the principal palace lake the present-day Birket IIabu

Some distance south of the main city at Tell el hmarna there is a generally similar architectural layout consisting of two big rectangular inclosures lying side by side and containing in addition to pools villas magazines and other build- ings a small temple This temple was presumably dedicated to the Aten and the whole complex was called the m3rur or pleasure-precinct() of the Aten- usually referred to by modern ~vriters simply as ilIaru-hten486

Like Pr-hcy the name nhich he used

4 See above p 85

A usual feature of the larger ancient Egyptian courtyards and one which would explain the complete absence of building remains in the central portion of this inclosure

8 8 City I chap v Pls S X I X fl The riame XIarll- 4teuW and the word m3ria are discussed by Ciu11n 011 pp 133-58

the and its wine is (even) more plentifulm3 than for his principal palace a t A m a r ~ ~ a ~ ~ ~ term m3rw was probably derived by Akhenaten from some portion of his fathers palace at Thebes where how- ever the full name ~vould in all likelihood have been the m3rw of Amiin Granted that a part of the Theban palace was so named n-e can hardly doubt that the part in question was the isolated northern quarter with the temple and inclosure of Amiin

Fortunately there is inscriptional evi- dence to show that hmenhotep I11actual-ly did build a Maru-Amtin across the river from Luxor in the general locality -

occupied by the illalkata temple inclo- sure This evidence is found in lines 12-14 of the kings well-known granite stela in C a i r~ ~here following descriptions of the mortuary temple in western Thebes and the temple a t Luxor there appears the follo~i-ing account of a hitherto un-identified structure

Ariotller nlonulrie~it which His Majesty 111tde for his father Amfin making for him a

r r i l n i (gt-) as an offering to the god -I n

oppositeg Soutllern a place ofO ~ e t ~ ~ ~ arnusernent for my Father in his goodly festi- va l (~ ) In it I erected a great templeM1 (which is) like the Sun (Rc)when it appears in glory on the horizon and ~vhich is planted with all (kinds of) flowers Fair is the Primaeval Water (inla) which ii in its lake at every season4g2

8 See above pp 178 and 182

1x5 Ko 34025 See Lacau Stkles ilu Touuel E m p i r e 11 S V I The text as restored by Sethy I contains a t~rirnber of iniswritings which are emended by Spiegel- berg in R e c l r a a S X 4CL43 (see esp p 41 UII 5-9)

l a gHl-I lr -n before the face of facing-here I believe in the sense of directly across (the iVile) from Compare the common expression for west- err1 Thebes Bft-l~in b s Opposite-her-Lord ( I i7b 111 276 b)

The temple of Luxor On a map of Thebes a line drau-n from the sanctuary of the Lrixor temple a r ~ d projected westward a t right angles to the corirse of the river passes just to the north of the palace area

(I t -nr r t a stock expression uot really in- dicative of the actual size of the temple which irl this case happeus to have bee11 relatively small

(its) water-like the pouring forth of the Inun- dation (Hpy)a4 created by the Lord of Eter- nity Numerous are the possessions of the place The taxes of every country are received and plentiful tribute is brought before my Father being the presentations of all lands

Aside from the comments made in the footnotes there seems to be nothing which needs to be added to this description of what would appear to have been the northern quarter of the Malkata palace except to note that for an inscription of its type and period it is unusually accurate and complete

IX MISCELLANEOUS INSCRIPTIONS

Among the few inscribed objects found in the ruins of the palace which do not belong to one of the eight categories al- ready discussed were two fragments of a name-stone of H a t ~ h e p s u t ~ ~ j picked up by Lansing in November 1917 in the vil- lage area to the n-est of the North Pa1ace here can be little doubt that the stone

came originally from the temple of Hat- shepsut and Thutmose I11 at Medinet Habu where numerous examples of the same type have been found4 and that it had wandered thence into the palace area at a relatively recent date

Mixed in with the fragments of in-scribed jars from the Palace of the King were two potsherds with portions of Eighteenth Dynasty hieratic copies of two famous literary texts the Instruction of hmenemhet I (Fig 39 4)495 and a n-ell-

4 0 2 Thanks u e may suppose to the channel con- necting the Uirket Habri with the Nile (see Engelbach and 12facaldin B u l l rle I I n s t rlampgple XS52)

4 9 3 See the second column of the table of Fig 16 above

4 0 1 See De Brick On the 3Ieaning of the Name fPpj Orzentalza S e e r l a n d z c a 1049 pp 1-22

6 Ou stones of this type see my O s t r a k a a n d Tame- S t o n r s pp 45-46

4 9 6 See eg Holscher E r c a c a t i o n o M e d i n e t I I a b u 1132 Figs 27 28

0 Small portions of the begitlr~irlg of the text (Pap Sallier 11 1-2) are preserved

242 JOURNAL S~UDIESOF NEAREASTERK

known model letter of the earlier Middle Iiingdom (Fig 39 5)498

MTith the exception of some pieces of in- scribed alabaster vases from the store- rooms of the Temple of Amdn499 of xvhich unhappily I can find no copies or photo- graphs this completes the corpus of Eighteenth Dynasty inscriptions recov-erecl from the palace by the Metropolitan 3luseums espedibion A few Late Dynas- tic burials with inscribed coffins some Demotic ostraka and half a dozen in- scribed amphorae of the Greco-Roman Period were also found but these have no bearing on the history of the Malkata as

a royal residence-a history which seems to have ended abruptly vith the rise of the Nineteenth Dynasty

Exclusive of Amenhotep I11 himself thirteen royal persons are mentioned on inscribed objects found within the con- fines of the Malkata palace Though the names of some of these persons appear on objects or in contests of no particular his- torical significance it seems desirable nevertheless to list them all in chronologi- cal order accompanied by indications of the types and quantities of the inscrip- tions in which they occur

Hatshepsut I name-stone probably from rtledinet Habu Thutmose 111 4 document-sealings (Types S 1 2 Fig 31) 4

scarabs (Types R 24-27 Fig 34) Amenliotep 11 2 document-sealings (Type S 3 Fig 31) Tllutnlose I V 9 jar-labels (Types 31 32 45 Figs 5 t i ) 2 docu-

ment-sealings (Types S 4 5 Fig 31) Queen JIute~nuya I jar-label (Type 64 Fig 7) Queer1 Tiy I jar-label (Type 98 Fig 8) numerous brick

stimys (Types 111 IT Fig 30) 32 ring bezels (Types R 12-16 Fig 34) 2 scarabs (p 233 and n 419) 1 kohl-tube and 2 rase fragment^ (Fig 35 d q r)

Tlic Kings (Great) Wife (=T iy ) 26 jar-labels (Types 7 18 94 129 147 172 207 Figs 4 8 10 11 1314) 1jar-sealing (Tgt-pe 0 Fig 26)

Queen Sitarniln 51 jar-labels (Types 94-97 112 113 137 139 Figs8911) 2 ring bezels (Type R 17 Fig 34)

Princess Henettoneb Rlentioned on a sandstone stela (Figs 37 bot-tom 39 3)

Irince Arnenhotep (=Amenliotep IV ) 1 jar-sealing (Type KK Fig 27) ilmenhotep IV (ilkhenaten) 3 document-sealings (Types S 97 120 124 Fig

33) 1 ring bezel (Type H 18 Fig 34) Smenklikar 2 ring bezels (Types R 19 20 Fig 34) Tutcankhnmtin I ring bezel (Type R 21 Fig 34) (JueenAnkhesenamOn (CZrlkhesenpatten) 1 document-sealing (Type P 125 Fig 33) 1 ring

bezel (Type R 22 Fig 34) Horelnlieb 1 fragment of sandstone doorjamb (Fig 37 1q1-

per right)

METROPOLITAN OF ARTMUSEUM NEW YORE

4s Hayes JSES VII 1-10 (see P I I 11 I artd 3 ) 99 Lansirig o p ci t p 12 Pusener in v a n cle TValle L a T r a n s m i e s i o r ~ des f(+tes 1itttraires Egypt iens pp 41-50

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statue when complete n-as 440 meters or ahout fourteen ant1 a half feet in height A s in the Louvre group the got1 as pro)- ably represented seated on a throne Ivith perhaps a smaller figure of the king stand- ing or kneeling before him452 Admirably carved and beautifully finished the statue may have been the temples principal cult image though its huge size tends to mili- tate against this-53 I ts back pilaster car- ried three vertical coliimns of incised hieroglyphic inscriptions of which are pre-

served the groups [Q] 1

r r-hat the tops of the sec-

ond and third columns respectively (Fig 36 upper right)

A fragment of sandstone door-lintel (Fig 36 lower left) found lying on the sur- face of the ground inside the temple in- losu sure^^^ was photographed by Evelyn FThite during the season of 1914-15 The piece measures 70 cm in length and 83 cm in height the lintel having been originally about 107 cm high-a sizable block of stone Its decoration lightly incised anti somewhat carelessly executed was whol- ly conventional a winged suns disk and helon- it two horizontal lines of inscrip tion with the titles and names of Amen- hotep III05 The kings prenomen [Neb]- ma [re ] with the epithet Heir of Re ( i l l s - f R-) included in the cartouche is fairly c ~ m m o n ~ occurring for example on a piece of re-used() sandstone relief found in the temple of Eye and IIorem- heb14j7which lies about a kilometer to the north of the palace area The tops of the

signs 18 a t its extreme left end are all

3 See Varille K a r n a k I 8-9 PI X V 4 5 3 See Holscher hxcavatzon o l f e d z n ~ f Hahu

IIT 26 154 White Bul l f~f-l1915 p 256 Lansing Bull

1fMd Alarch 1918 Supp lement p 8 4 2 5 Cf Varille K a r n a k I PI XII 17 456 Gauthier Lzvre des roiu 11 316 X X I X 317

SSS318 X S X I V 4 5 7 Hiilscher Excanalion o Medinet Habu 11 101

PI 43 n

that remain of the second line of inscrip- tion

A pair of fragmentary sandst onc tloor- jaml)s (Fig 36 lower right) though similar in style are smaller in scale than the lintel measuring only 20 cm in width the right jamb being preserved to a height of 70 cm They are from Lansings excavations of 1916-17 in the templearea Each evidently bore one of the names of Amenhotep 111 f ollo~r-ed by the expressions beloved of such-and-such a divinity and given life like RP forever Flre may guess that on the left jamb the deity referred to was Amen-Re [Lord of] Heaven and what remains of the signs a t the top of the frag- ment of the right jamb suggests the name of the goddess Shesmet (Ssmtt)45~luch more interesting than the principal in-scriptions are the tu-o small lines of text written near the bottom of the right jamb and given in hand copy in Figure 39 2 These inform us that the doorway or the structure to which it belonged was made under the direction of the Treasurer of the King of Lower Egypt the StolistGq of 3Iin-Amfin the Fourth Prophet of Amiin Simtit the justified

A prominent member of the hierarchy of hmiin Simiit is named as Fourth Prophet of the god in a statue inscription in Brussels together n-ith his three superi- ors the First Prophet Bleryptah the Second Prophet (and brother-in-law of the king) ltAnen and the Third Prophet Amenemhet460 Since the inscription re-ferred to is dated to Year 20 of Amenho- tep I11 and the chapel of Amiin in the Jfalkata palace was probably built for the celebration of the kings second Sed-

0 W b IT538 Budge Dic t ionary p 753 Gard O n 11 125

4 5 9 S m See Grdseloff A n n Serl XLITI 357 f f The title Stolist of AIin-ArnGn was borne in the Nineteenth Dynasty by IEhaCeniwast a so11 of the High Priest of B m h Wepwawetnlose (Lefebvre Histoire des yrands pramptres c l i ln~o7t p 240)

460 Capart and Spiegelberg -4 n 71 Sac A r eh d e Brurel les XVI 167 Fig 2

festival in Year 34461 it mould appear that Simtit held the rank of Fourth Prophet for about fourteen years462 Before the end of his career he was elevated to the grade of Second Prophet of Amiin and is so re- ferred to on toTo statues3 and two shawnbty-figure~~~4in the Cairo Museum He appears in the reliefs of the temple at Soleb participating in the celebration of Amenhotep 111s first Heb-~ed~ and lvas the owner of a decorated tomb on the Dira abul Naga at ThebesG6 On one of his statues in Cairo467 he bears the title First Kings Son of Amiin and the presence of his name on a doorway of one of the kings temples suggests that like ane en he -as related to Amenh~t~ep I11 either by blood or by marriage The fact that he was evi- dently in charge of what during the reign of Amenhotep I11 must have been the fourth most important of tmhe Theban temples of Amtin further suggests that there oras some sort of nominal division of responsibility between the four prophets of the god-the High Priest presiding at Karnak and delegating the immediate supervision of the Luxor temple the kings mortuary temple and the Malkata

401 See above p 85

402 Possibly less Sirniit may have received his ap- pointment as Fourth Prophet in Year 20 itself and the Malkata temple may have been built and inscribed a year or two before the celebration of the second Heb-sed During the reigns of Sethy I and Ramesses 11 Bakenkhonsu who eventually became High Priest of Amfin served twelve years as a Father of the God flf- teen years as Third Prophet and twelve years as Sec- ond Prophet (Lefebvre Hzstozre des g r a n d s p r l t r r s p 128)

463 Borchardt S t a t u e n t l nd S ta tue t t en 111161 Ko 932 IV 60 IGo 1107

4 6 4 Mariette Cat yl n des m o n u m e n t s d d b y d o s Nos 389 and 3 9 0 incorrectly dated by SIariette (and Lefebvre o p czt p 24 K O 1) to the late Middle K~ngdom The two Simiits listed by Lefebvre ( l ac czt IGos 1 and 9) are clearly one and the same man

465 Lepsius D e n k m u l e r 111PI 84 b

468 Porter-Sfoss T o p B i b l I 187 1 Varille A n n Seru S L 642 n 3

4 6 7 No 1107 See above n 483

temple to the Second Third and Fourth Prophets respectively

Similt may also have been the o-ner of a rough little sandstone stela a few bat- tered fragments of 11-hich mere recovered by Lansing from the ruins of the temple proper and are shown in the photograph at the bottom of Figure 37 A rectangular slab something over 45 cm in thickness the stela Ivas once painted white with blue hieroglyphs and red dividing lines the latter spaced on the average 3 em apart Preserved are parts of a seven-line inscription surmounting an incised design of indeterminate nature and comprising portions of the autobiography of a priest or temple official of Amtin With the aid of Lansings hand copy a revised version of which is given in Figure 39 (3) we can make out the following phrases

(1) the Prince of Princes468 [intro]ducetl me into the House of Amfin

(2) for his469 son Nehmacrei who be- longs to

(3) - V amp [ ~ ] W ( )a long lifetime as king living

(4) life() great of victories ( 5 ) Went [dou~n] the Kings [Daughter]

HenettonehQ in front of (6) great of hirn who causes rnonu-

ment which is (7) in the place the gods words which

he recited Mention has already been made of the

tile and gilded plaster decoration of a row

6 Probably Amenhotep 111 (see Varille A n n Sera XXXIII 93-94 XXXIV 13-16 Capart C h r o n d Eq X 322-24 Gauthier Liare des ro i s 11 315 XXV 316 XXVIII) though the epithet F k l h g i w was current before his time being borne for example by Amenhotep I1on his great quartzite stela from Sakkiireh (1 34 Badaw-i A n n S e r e XLII 23 P1 I)

468 ilmiins There is however a bare possibility that the pronoun and the epithet Prince of Princes in the preceding line refer to Thutmose IV

4 7 0 Amenhotep 111ssecond eldest daughter and the senior princess following Sitamiins elevation to the status of queen See Gauthier o p ci t 11 341-42 Hayes Bull M M d 1948 pp 272 276-78

horizon4 M a y he he given4 life stability md well-being [forever]

Thc expression Offering-of-the-1lt001 (wdn 11 tp-ht) leaves little room for doubt that these small stone basins formed part of the furnishings of an elevated open-air sanctuary of the type dedicated to the worship of the sun-god (Rec of the Roof479 and known from texts of the Twentieth Dynasty and later times to have been called the House of RP of the Roof of the House of Amtin4xo Such a sanctuary existed in the great temple a t Karnak as early as the reign of Thut-mose III481and the presence of one in so small and unimportant a temple as that of the Llalkata palace indicates how prevalent shrines of this type must have been in the Amtin temples of the period

Since the function of our offering tables was presumably to receive libations and gifts of food presented to the sun-god it seems frivolous to suggest that they I-ould also have been useful for catching the fresh myrrh and fresh incense which Heaven in tn70 Eighteenth Dynasty in- scriptions is said to rain down upon the roofs of royal temples482

A glance a t the plan of the northern- most quarter of the palace published by

in 1918shows that the Temple

4 7 7 R-m](~c)[(n)RCwbnm iht ] Cf Aeg Inschr Brr- lin 11182No 7290 For Rec wenlightperhaps sub- stitute Aten (the disk of the sun not the god of Amarna) as in Berlin 7274 and 7271 (deg Inschr 11 154 and 105)

[I di] nb etc Cf Cairo 23040 23073 (Ka-mal op cit)

4 7 9 R tp-hl or R m tp-ht (Re in the Roof) a form of the god worshiped as early as the reigu of Kir~g Sahurec of the Fifth Dynasty and referred to in two places on the Palermo Stoue (verso 3 1 and 4 3 Schafer Ein Bruchstuck altagyptischer Annalen pp 36 and 39)

4 8 Pr-RC tp-ht Pr-Imn See the references giveu in (iard On 11 216 under -4 462 and in Kees Orirntalia XVIII 436-30

Icees op cit pp 427-42

48 Spiegelberg 24~LIII 99

fl Op cil p 9

of Amtin properly speaking occupied only the c+entral section of a long ljuiltiing cstcntling across the tcrracactl 11cst eritl of a vast ~valletl inclosure (see nlho Pig 1 above) The northern lying of this build- ing appears to have been given over to offices and magazines-probably for the contributions to the kings second Neb-scd -but the richly decorated rooms at its southern end were certainly intended for some less utilitarian purpose and its southeast corner was taken up by a luxuri- ously appointed dwelling house or small palace On the north sitie of the main in- closure are the remains of a large multi- piered huilding nhich is believed to have been the kings Srd-festival anti adjoining this on the west a succession of courts and smaller buildings To the south and east of the inclosure are the ruins of other structures including several large and handsome villas There is every probability that the inclosure once con-tained a big rectangular pool of r ~ - a t e r ~ ~ ~ fed perhaps from the principal palace lake the present-day Birket IIabu

Some distance south of the main city at Tell el hmarna there is a generally similar architectural layout consisting of two big rectangular inclosures lying side by side and containing in addition to pools villas magazines and other build- ings a small temple This temple was presumably dedicated to the Aten and the whole complex was called the m3rur or pleasure-precinct() of the Aten- usually referred to by modern ~vriters simply as ilIaru-hten486

Like Pr-hcy the name nhich he used

4 See above p 85

A usual feature of the larger ancient Egyptian courtyards and one which would explain the complete absence of building remains in the central portion of this inclosure

8 8 City I chap v Pls S X I X fl The riame XIarll- 4teuW and the word m3ria are discussed by Ciu11n 011 pp 133-58

the and its wine is (even) more plentifulm3 than for his principal palace a t A m a r ~ ~ a ~ ~ ~ term m3rw was probably derived by Akhenaten from some portion of his fathers palace at Thebes where how- ever the full name ~vould in all likelihood have been the m3rw of Amiin Granted that a part of the Theban palace was so named n-e can hardly doubt that the part in question was the isolated northern quarter with the temple and inclosure of Amiin

Fortunately there is inscriptional evi- dence to show that hmenhotep I11actual-ly did build a Maru-Amtin across the river from Luxor in the general locality -

occupied by the illalkata temple inclo- sure This evidence is found in lines 12-14 of the kings well-known granite stela in C a i r~ ~here following descriptions of the mortuary temple in western Thebes and the temple a t Luxor there appears the follo~i-ing account of a hitherto un-identified structure

Ariotller nlonulrie~it which His Majesty 111tde for his father Amfin making for him a

r r i l n i (gt-) as an offering to the god -I n

oppositeg Soutllern a place ofO ~ e t ~ ~ ~ arnusernent for my Father in his goodly festi- va l (~ ) In it I erected a great templeM1 (which is) like the Sun (Rc)when it appears in glory on the horizon and ~vhich is planted with all (kinds of) flowers Fair is the Primaeval Water (inla) which ii in its lake at every season4g2

8 See above pp 178 and 182

1x5 Ko 34025 See Lacau Stkles ilu Touuel E m p i r e 11 S V I The text as restored by Sethy I contains a t~rirnber of iniswritings which are emended by Spiegel- berg in R e c l r a a S X 4CL43 (see esp p 41 UII 5-9)

l a gHl-I lr -n before the face of facing-here I believe in the sense of directly across (the iVile) from Compare the common expression for west- err1 Thebes Bft-l~in b s Opposite-her-Lord ( I i7b 111 276 b)

The temple of Luxor On a map of Thebes a line drau-n from the sanctuary of the Lrixor temple a r ~ d projected westward a t right angles to the corirse of the river passes just to the north of the palace area

(I t -nr r t a stock expression uot really in- dicative of the actual size of the temple which irl this case happeus to have bee11 relatively small

(its) water-like the pouring forth of the Inun- dation (Hpy)a4 created by the Lord of Eter- nity Numerous are the possessions of the place The taxes of every country are received and plentiful tribute is brought before my Father being the presentations of all lands

Aside from the comments made in the footnotes there seems to be nothing which needs to be added to this description of what would appear to have been the northern quarter of the Malkata palace except to note that for an inscription of its type and period it is unusually accurate and complete

IX MISCELLANEOUS INSCRIPTIONS

Among the few inscribed objects found in the ruins of the palace which do not belong to one of the eight categories al- ready discussed were two fragments of a name-stone of H a t ~ h e p s u t ~ ~ j picked up by Lansing in November 1917 in the vil- lage area to the n-est of the North Pa1ace here can be little doubt that the stone

came originally from the temple of Hat- shepsut and Thutmose I11 at Medinet Habu where numerous examples of the same type have been found4 and that it had wandered thence into the palace area at a relatively recent date

Mixed in with the fragments of in-scribed jars from the Palace of the King were two potsherds with portions of Eighteenth Dynasty hieratic copies of two famous literary texts the Instruction of hmenemhet I (Fig 39 4)495 and a n-ell-

4 0 2 Thanks u e may suppose to the channel con- necting the Uirket Habri with the Nile (see Engelbach and 12facaldin B u l l rle I I n s t rlampgple XS52)

4 9 3 See the second column of the table of Fig 16 above

4 0 1 See De Brick On the 3Ieaning of the Name fPpj Orzentalza S e e r l a n d z c a 1049 pp 1-22

6 Ou stones of this type see my O s t r a k a a n d Tame- S t o n r s pp 45-46

4 9 6 See eg Holscher E r c a c a t i o n o M e d i n e t I I a b u 1132 Figs 27 28

0 Small portions of the begitlr~irlg of the text (Pap Sallier 11 1-2) are preserved

242 JOURNAL S~UDIESOF NEAREASTERK

known model letter of the earlier Middle Iiingdom (Fig 39 5)498

MTith the exception of some pieces of in- scribed alabaster vases from the store- rooms of the Temple of Amdn499 of xvhich unhappily I can find no copies or photo- graphs this completes the corpus of Eighteenth Dynasty inscriptions recov-erecl from the palace by the Metropolitan 3luseums espedibion A few Late Dynas- tic burials with inscribed coffins some Demotic ostraka and half a dozen in- scribed amphorae of the Greco-Roman Period were also found but these have no bearing on the history of the Malkata as

a royal residence-a history which seems to have ended abruptly vith the rise of the Nineteenth Dynasty

Exclusive of Amenhotep I11 himself thirteen royal persons are mentioned on inscribed objects found within the con- fines of the Malkata palace Though the names of some of these persons appear on objects or in contests of no particular his- torical significance it seems desirable nevertheless to list them all in chronologi- cal order accompanied by indications of the types and quantities of the inscrip- tions in which they occur

Hatshepsut I name-stone probably from rtledinet Habu Thutmose 111 4 document-sealings (Types S 1 2 Fig 31) 4

scarabs (Types R 24-27 Fig 34) Amenliotep 11 2 document-sealings (Type S 3 Fig 31) Tllutnlose I V 9 jar-labels (Types 31 32 45 Figs 5 t i ) 2 docu-

ment-sealings (Types S 4 5 Fig 31) Queen JIute~nuya I jar-label (Type 64 Fig 7) Queer1 Tiy I jar-label (Type 98 Fig 8) numerous brick

stimys (Types 111 IT Fig 30) 32 ring bezels (Types R 12-16 Fig 34) 2 scarabs (p 233 and n 419) 1 kohl-tube and 2 rase fragment^ (Fig 35 d q r)

Tlic Kings (Great) Wife (=T iy ) 26 jar-labels (Types 7 18 94 129 147 172 207 Figs 4 8 10 11 1314) 1jar-sealing (Tgt-pe 0 Fig 26)

Queen Sitarniln 51 jar-labels (Types 94-97 112 113 137 139 Figs8911) 2 ring bezels (Type R 17 Fig 34)

Princess Henettoneb Rlentioned on a sandstone stela (Figs 37 bot-tom 39 3)

Irince Arnenhotep (=Amenliotep IV ) 1 jar-sealing (Type KK Fig 27) ilmenhotep IV (ilkhenaten) 3 document-sealings (Types S 97 120 124 Fig

33) 1 ring bezel (Type H 18 Fig 34) Smenklikar 2 ring bezels (Types R 19 20 Fig 34) Tutcankhnmtin I ring bezel (Type R 21 Fig 34) (JueenAnkhesenamOn (CZrlkhesenpatten) 1 document-sealing (Type P 125 Fig 33) 1 ring

bezel (Type R 22 Fig 34) Horelnlieb 1 fragment of sandstone doorjamb (Fig 37 1q1-

per right)

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4s Hayes JSES VII 1-10 (see P I I 11 I artd 3 ) 99 Lansirig o p ci t p 12 Pusener in v a n cle TValle L a T r a n s m i e s i o r ~ des f(+tes 1itttraires Egypt iens pp 41-50

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festival in Year 34461 it mould appear that Simtit held the rank of Fourth Prophet for about fourteen years462 Before the end of his career he was elevated to the grade of Second Prophet of Amiin and is so re- ferred to on toTo statues3 and two shawnbty-figure~~~4in the Cairo Museum He appears in the reliefs of the temple at Soleb participating in the celebration of Amenhotep 111s first Heb-~ed~ and lvas the owner of a decorated tomb on the Dira abul Naga at ThebesG6 On one of his statues in Cairo467 he bears the title First Kings Son of Amiin and the presence of his name on a doorway of one of the kings temples suggests that like ane en he -as related to Amenh~t~ep I11 either by blood or by marriage The fact that he was evi- dently in charge of what during the reign of Amenhotep I11 must have been the fourth most important of tmhe Theban temples of Amtin further suggests that there oras some sort of nominal division of responsibility between the four prophets of the god-the High Priest presiding at Karnak and delegating the immediate supervision of the Luxor temple the kings mortuary temple and the Malkata

401 See above p 85

402 Possibly less Sirniit may have received his ap- pointment as Fourth Prophet in Year 20 itself and the Malkata temple may have been built and inscribed a year or two before the celebration of the second Heb-sed During the reigns of Sethy I and Ramesses 11 Bakenkhonsu who eventually became High Priest of Amfin served twelve years as a Father of the God flf- teen years as Third Prophet and twelve years as Sec- ond Prophet (Lefebvre Hzstozre des g r a n d s p r l t r r s p 128)

463 Borchardt S t a t u e n t l nd S ta tue t t en 111161 Ko 932 IV 60 IGo 1107

4 6 4 Mariette Cat yl n des m o n u m e n t s d d b y d o s Nos 389 and 3 9 0 incorrectly dated by SIariette (and Lefebvre o p czt p 24 K O 1) to the late Middle K~ngdom The two Simiits listed by Lefebvre ( l ac czt IGos 1 and 9) are clearly one and the same man

465 Lepsius D e n k m u l e r 111PI 84 b

468 Porter-Sfoss T o p B i b l I 187 1 Varille A n n Seru S L 642 n 3

4 6 7 No 1107 See above n 483

temple to the Second Third and Fourth Prophets respectively

Similt may also have been the o-ner of a rough little sandstone stela a few bat- tered fragments of 11-hich mere recovered by Lansing from the ruins of the temple proper and are shown in the photograph at the bottom of Figure 37 A rectangular slab something over 45 cm in thickness the stela Ivas once painted white with blue hieroglyphs and red dividing lines the latter spaced on the average 3 em apart Preserved are parts of a seven-line inscription surmounting an incised design of indeterminate nature and comprising portions of the autobiography of a priest or temple official of Amtin With the aid of Lansings hand copy a revised version of which is given in Figure 39 (3) we can make out the following phrases

(1) the Prince of Princes468 [intro]ducetl me into the House of Amfin

(2) for his469 son Nehmacrei who be- longs to

(3) - V amp [ ~ ] W ( )a long lifetime as king living

(4) life() great of victories ( 5 ) Went [dou~n] the Kings [Daughter]

HenettonehQ in front of (6) great of hirn who causes rnonu-

ment which is (7) in the place the gods words which

he recited Mention has already been made of the

tile and gilded plaster decoration of a row

6 Probably Amenhotep 111 (see Varille A n n Sera XXXIII 93-94 XXXIV 13-16 Capart C h r o n d Eq X 322-24 Gauthier Liare des ro i s 11 315 XXV 316 XXVIII) though the epithet F k l h g i w was current before his time being borne for example by Amenhotep I1on his great quartzite stela from Sakkiireh (1 34 Badaw-i A n n S e r e XLII 23 P1 I)

468 ilmiins There is however a bare possibility that the pronoun and the epithet Prince of Princes in the preceding line refer to Thutmose IV

4 7 0 Amenhotep 111ssecond eldest daughter and the senior princess following Sitamiins elevation to the status of queen See Gauthier o p ci t 11 341-42 Hayes Bull M M d 1948 pp 272 276-78

horizon4 M a y he he given4 life stability md well-being [forever]

Thc expression Offering-of-the-1lt001 (wdn 11 tp-ht) leaves little room for doubt that these small stone basins formed part of the furnishings of an elevated open-air sanctuary of the type dedicated to the worship of the sun-god (Rec of the Roof479 and known from texts of the Twentieth Dynasty and later times to have been called the House of RP of the Roof of the House of Amtin4xo Such a sanctuary existed in the great temple a t Karnak as early as the reign of Thut-mose III481and the presence of one in so small and unimportant a temple as that of the Llalkata palace indicates how prevalent shrines of this type must have been in the Amtin temples of the period

Since the function of our offering tables was presumably to receive libations and gifts of food presented to the sun-god it seems frivolous to suggest that they I-ould also have been useful for catching the fresh myrrh and fresh incense which Heaven in tn70 Eighteenth Dynasty in- scriptions is said to rain down upon the roofs of royal temples482

A glance a t the plan of the northern- most quarter of the palace published by

in 1918shows that the Temple

4 7 7 R-m](~c)[(n)RCwbnm iht ] Cf Aeg Inschr Brr- lin 11182No 7290 For Rec wenlightperhaps sub- stitute Aten (the disk of the sun not the god of Amarna) as in Berlin 7274 and 7271 (deg Inschr 11 154 and 105)

[I di] nb etc Cf Cairo 23040 23073 (Ka-mal op cit)

4 7 9 R tp-hl or R m tp-ht (Re in the Roof) a form of the god worshiped as early as the reigu of Kir~g Sahurec of the Fifth Dynasty and referred to in two places on the Palermo Stoue (verso 3 1 and 4 3 Schafer Ein Bruchstuck altagyptischer Annalen pp 36 and 39)

4 8 Pr-RC tp-ht Pr-Imn See the references giveu in (iard On 11 216 under -4 462 and in Kees Orirntalia XVIII 436-30

Icees op cit pp 427-42

48 Spiegelberg 24~LIII 99

fl Op cil p 9

of Amtin properly speaking occupied only the c+entral section of a long ljuiltiing cstcntling across the tcrracactl 11cst eritl of a vast ~valletl inclosure (see nlho Pig 1 above) The northern lying of this build- ing appears to have been given over to offices and magazines-probably for the contributions to the kings second Neb-scd -but the richly decorated rooms at its southern end were certainly intended for some less utilitarian purpose and its southeast corner was taken up by a luxuri- ously appointed dwelling house or small palace On the north sitie of the main in- closure are the remains of a large multi- piered huilding nhich is believed to have been the kings Srd-festival anti adjoining this on the west a succession of courts and smaller buildings To the south and east of the inclosure are the ruins of other structures including several large and handsome villas There is every probability that the inclosure once con-tained a big rectangular pool of r ~ - a t e r ~ ~ ~ fed perhaps from the principal palace lake the present-day Birket IIabu

Some distance south of the main city at Tell el hmarna there is a generally similar architectural layout consisting of two big rectangular inclosures lying side by side and containing in addition to pools villas magazines and other build- ings a small temple This temple was presumably dedicated to the Aten and the whole complex was called the m3rur or pleasure-precinct() of the Aten- usually referred to by modern ~vriters simply as ilIaru-hten486

Like Pr-hcy the name nhich he used

4 See above p 85

A usual feature of the larger ancient Egyptian courtyards and one which would explain the complete absence of building remains in the central portion of this inclosure

8 8 City I chap v Pls S X I X fl The riame XIarll- 4teuW and the word m3ria are discussed by Ciu11n 011 pp 133-58

the and its wine is (even) more plentifulm3 than for his principal palace a t A m a r ~ ~ a ~ ~ ~ term m3rw was probably derived by Akhenaten from some portion of his fathers palace at Thebes where how- ever the full name ~vould in all likelihood have been the m3rw of Amiin Granted that a part of the Theban palace was so named n-e can hardly doubt that the part in question was the isolated northern quarter with the temple and inclosure of Amiin

Fortunately there is inscriptional evi- dence to show that hmenhotep I11actual-ly did build a Maru-Amtin across the river from Luxor in the general locality -

occupied by the illalkata temple inclo- sure This evidence is found in lines 12-14 of the kings well-known granite stela in C a i r~ ~here following descriptions of the mortuary temple in western Thebes and the temple a t Luxor there appears the follo~i-ing account of a hitherto un-identified structure

Ariotller nlonulrie~it which His Majesty 111tde for his father Amfin making for him a

r r i l n i (gt-) as an offering to the god -I n

oppositeg Soutllern a place ofO ~ e t ~ ~ ~ arnusernent for my Father in his goodly festi- va l (~ ) In it I erected a great templeM1 (which is) like the Sun (Rc)when it appears in glory on the horizon and ~vhich is planted with all (kinds of) flowers Fair is the Primaeval Water (inla) which ii in its lake at every season4g2

8 See above pp 178 and 182

1x5 Ko 34025 See Lacau Stkles ilu Touuel E m p i r e 11 S V I The text as restored by Sethy I contains a t~rirnber of iniswritings which are emended by Spiegel- berg in R e c l r a a S X 4CL43 (see esp p 41 UII 5-9)

l a gHl-I lr -n before the face of facing-here I believe in the sense of directly across (the iVile) from Compare the common expression for west- err1 Thebes Bft-l~in b s Opposite-her-Lord ( I i7b 111 276 b)

The temple of Luxor On a map of Thebes a line drau-n from the sanctuary of the Lrixor temple a r ~ d projected westward a t right angles to the corirse of the river passes just to the north of the palace area

(I t -nr r t a stock expression uot really in- dicative of the actual size of the temple which irl this case happeus to have bee11 relatively small

(its) water-like the pouring forth of the Inun- dation (Hpy)a4 created by the Lord of Eter- nity Numerous are the possessions of the place The taxes of every country are received and plentiful tribute is brought before my Father being the presentations of all lands

Aside from the comments made in the footnotes there seems to be nothing which needs to be added to this description of what would appear to have been the northern quarter of the Malkata palace except to note that for an inscription of its type and period it is unusually accurate and complete

IX MISCELLANEOUS INSCRIPTIONS

Among the few inscribed objects found in the ruins of the palace which do not belong to one of the eight categories al- ready discussed were two fragments of a name-stone of H a t ~ h e p s u t ~ ~ j picked up by Lansing in November 1917 in the vil- lage area to the n-est of the North Pa1ace here can be little doubt that the stone

came originally from the temple of Hat- shepsut and Thutmose I11 at Medinet Habu where numerous examples of the same type have been found4 and that it had wandered thence into the palace area at a relatively recent date

Mixed in with the fragments of in-scribed jars from the Palace of the King were two potsherds with portions of Eighteenth Dynasty hieratic copies of two famous literary texts the Instruction of hmenemhet I (Fig 39 4)495 and a n-ell-

4 0 2 Thanks u e may suppose to the channel con- necting the Uirket Habri with the Nile (see Engelbach and 12facaldin B u l l rle I I n s t rlampgple XS52)

4 9 3 See the second column of the table of Fig 16 above

4 0 1 See De Brick On the 3Ieaning of the Name fPpj Orzentalza S e e r l a n d z c a 1049 pp 1-22

6 Ou stones of this type see my O s t r a k a a n d Tame- S t o n r s pp 45-46

4 9 6 See eg Holscher E r c a c a t i o n o M e d i n e t I I a b u 1132 Figs 27 28

0 Small portions of the begitlr~irlg of the text (Pap Sallier 11 1-2) are preserved

242 JOURNAL S~UDIESOF NEAREASTERK

known model letter of the earlier Middle Iiingdom (Fig 39 5)498

MTith the exception of some pieces of in- scribed alabaster vases from the store- rooms of the Temple of Amdn499 of xvhich unhappily I can find no copies or photo- graphs this completes the corpus of Eighteenth Dynasty inscriptions recov-erecl from the palace by the Metropolitan 3luseums espedibion A few Late Dynas- tic burials with inscribed coffins some Demotic ostraka and half a dozen in- scribed amphorae of the Greco-Roman Period were also found but these have no bearing on the history of the Malkata as

a royal residence-a history which seems to have ended abruptly vith the rise of the Nineteenth Dynasty

Exclusive of Amenhotep I11 himself thirteen royal persons are mentioned on inscribed objects found within the con- fines of the Malkata palace Though the names of some of these persons appear on objects or in contests of no particular his- torical significance it seems desirable nevertheless to list them all in chronologi- cal order accompanied by indications of the types and quantities of the inscrip- tions in which they occur

Hatshepsut I name-stone probably from rtledinet Habu Thutmose 111 4 document-sealings (Types S 1 2 Fig 31) 4

scarabs (Types R 24-27 Fig 34) Amenliotep 11 2 document-sealings (Type S 3 Fig 31) Tllutnlose I V 9 jar-labels (Types 31 32 45 Figs 5 t i ) 2 docu-

ment-sealings (Types S 4 5 Fig 31) Queen JIute~nuya I jar-label (Type 64 Fig 7) Queer1 Tiy I jar-label (Type 98 Fig 8) numerous brick

stimys (Types 111 IT Fig 30) 32 ring bezels (Types R 12-16 Fig 34) 2 scarabs (p 233 and n 419) 1 kohl-tube and 2 rase fragment^ (Fig 35 d q r)

Tlic Kings (Great) Wife (=T iy ) 26 jar-labels (Types 7 18 94 129 147 172 207 Figs 4 8 10 11 1314) 1jar-sealing (Tgt-pe 0 Fig 26)

Queen Sitarniln 51 jar-labels (Types 94-97 112 113 137 139 Figs8911) 2 ring bezels (Type R 17 Fig 34)

Princess Henettoneb Rlentioned on a sandstone stela (Figs 37 bot-tom 39 3)

Irince Arnenhotep (=Amenliotep IV ) 1 jar-sealing (Type KK Fig 27) ilmenhotep IV (ilkhenaten) 3 document-sealings (Types S 97 120 124 Fig

33) 1 ring bezel (Type H 18 Fig 34) Smenklikar 2 ring bezels (Types R 19 20 Fig 34) Tutcankhnmtin I ring bezel (Type R 21 Fig 34) (JueenAnkhesenamOn (CZrlkhesenpatten) 1 document-sealing (Type P 125 Fig 33) 1 ring

bezel (Type R 22 Fig 34) Horelnlieb 1 fragment of sandstone doorjamb (Fig 37 1q1-

per right)

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horizon4 M a y he he given4 life stability md well-being [forever]

Thc expression Offering-of-the-1lt001 (wdn 11 tp-ht) leaves little room for doubt that these small stone basins formed part of the furnishings of an elevated open-air sanctuary of the type dedicated to the worship of the sun-god (Rec of the Roof479 and known from texts of the Twentieth Dynasty and later times to have been called the House of RP of the Roof of the House of Amtin4xo Such a sanctuary existed in the great temple a t Karnak as early as the reign of Thut-mose III481and the presence of one in so small and unimportant a temple as that of the Llalkata palace indicates how prevalent shrines of this type must have been in the Amtin temples of the period

Since the function of our offering tables was presumably to receive libations and gifts of food presented to the sun-god it seems frivolous to suggest that they I-ould also have been useful for catching the fresh myrrh and fresh incense which Heaven in tn70 Eighteenth Dynasty in- scriptions is said to rain down upon the roofs of royal temples482

A glance a t the plan of the northern- most quarter of the palace published by

in 1918shows that the Temple

4 7 7 R-m](~c)[(n)RCwbnm iht ] Cf Aeg Inschr Brr- lin 11182No 7290 For Rec wenlightperhaps sub- stitute Aten (the disk of the sun not the god of Amarna) as in Berlin 7274 and 7271 (deg Inschr 11 154 and 105)

[I di] nb etc Cf Cairo 23040 23073 (Ka-mal op cit)

4 7 9 R tp-hl or R m tp-ht (Re in the Roof) a form of the god worshiped as early as the reigu of Kir~g Sahurec of the Fifth Dynasty and referred to in two places on the Palermo Stoue (verso 3 1 and 4 3 Schafer Ein Bruchstuck altagyptischer Annalen pp 36 and 39)

4 8 Pr-RC tp-ht Pr-Imn See the references giveu in (iard On 11 216 under -4 462 and in Kees Orirntalia XVIII 436-30

Icees op cit pp 427-42

48 Spiegelberg 24~LIII 99

fl Op cil p 9

of Amtin properly speaking occupied only the c+entral section of a long ljuiltiing cstcntling across the tcrracactl 11cst eritl of a vast ~valletl inclosure (see nlho Pig 1 above) The northern lying of this build- ing appears to have been given over to offices and magazines-probably for the contributions to the kings second Neb-scd -but the richly decorated rooms at its southern end were certainly intended for some less utilitarian purpose and its southeast corner was taken up by a luxuri- ously appointed dwelling house or small palace On the north sitie of the main in- closure are the remains of a large multi- piered huilding nhich is believed to have been the kings Srd-festival anti adjoining this on the west a succession of courts and smaller buildings To the south and east of the inclosure are the ruins of other structures including several large and handsome villas There is every probability that the inclosure once con-tained a big rectangular pool of r ~ - a t e r ~ ~ ~ fed perhaps from the principal palace lake the present-day Birket IIabu

Some distance south of the main city at Tell el hmarna there is a generally similar architectural layout consisting of two big rectangular inclosures lying side by side and containing in addition to pools villas magazines and other build- ings a small temple This temple was presumably dedicated to the Aten and the whole complex was called the m3rur or pleasure-precinct() of the Aten- usually referred to by modern ~vriters simply as ilIaru-hten486

Like Pr-hcy the name nhich he used

4 See above p 85

A usual feature of the larger ancient Egyptian courtyards and one which would explain the complete absence of building remains in the central portion of this inclosure

8 8 City I chap v Pls S X I X fl The riame XIarll- 4teuW and the word m3ria are discussed by Ciu11n 011 pp 133-58

the and its wine is (even) more plentifulm3 than for his principal palace a t A m a r ~ ~ a ~ ~ ~ term m3rw was probably derived by Akhenaten from some portion of his fathers palace at Thebes where how- ever the full name ~vould in all likelihood have been the m3rw of Amiin Granted that a part of the Theban palace was so named n-e can hardly doubt that the part in question was the isolated northern quarter with the temple and inclosure of Amiin

Fortunately there is inscriptional evi- dence to show that hmenhotep I11actual-ly did build a Maru-Amtin across the river from Luxor in the general locality -

occupied by the illalkata temple inclo- sure This evidence is found in lines 12-14 of the kings well-known granite stela in C a i r~ ~here following descriptions of the mortuary temple in western Thebes and the temple a t Luxor there appears the follo~i-ing account of a hitherto un-identified structure

Ariotller nlonulrie~it which His Majesty 111tde for his father Amfin making for him a

r r i l n i (gt-) as an offering to the god -I n

oppositeg Soutllern a place ofO ~ e t ~ ~ ~ arnusernent for my Father in his goodly festi- va l (~ ) In it I erected a great templeM1 (which is) like the Sun (Rc)when it appears in glory on the horizon and ~vhich is planted with all (kinds of) flowers Fair is the Primaeval Water (inla) which ii in its lake at every season4g2

8 See above pp 178 and 182

1x5 Ko 34025 See Lacau Stkles ilu Touuel E m p i r e 11 S V I The text as restored by Sethy I contains a t~rirnber of iniswritings which are emended by Spiegel- berg in R e c l r a a S X 4CL43 (see esp p 41 UII 5-9)

l a gHl-I lr -n before the face of facing-here I believe in the sense of directly across (the iVile) from Compare the common expression for west- err1 Thebes Bft-l~in b s Opposite-her-Lord ( I i7b 111 276 b)

The temple of Luxor On a map of Thebes a line drau-n from the sanctuary of the Lrixor temple a r ~ d projected westward a t right angles to the corirse of the river passes just to the north of the palace area

(I t -nr r t a stock expression uot really in- dicative of the actual size of the temple which irl this case happeus to have bee11 relatively small

(its) water-like the pouring forth of the Inun- dation (Hpy)a4 created by the Lord of Eter- nity Numerous are the possessions of the place The taxes of every country are received and plentiful tribute is brought before my Father being the presentations of all lands

Aside from the comments made in the footnotes there seems to be nothing which needs to be added to this description of what would appear to have been the northern quarter of the Malkata palace except to note that for an inscription of its type and period it is unusually accurate and complete

IX MISCELLANEOUS INSCRIPTIONS

Among the few inscribed objects found in the ruins of the palace which do not belong to one of the eight categories al- ready discussed were two fragments of a name-stone of H a t ~ h e p s u t ~ ~ j picked up by Lansing in November 1917 in the vil- lage area to the n-est of the North Pa1ace here can be little doubt that the stone

came originally from the temple of Hat- shepsut and Thutmose I11 at Medinet Habu where numerous examples of the same type have been found4 and that it had wandered thence into the palace area at a relatively recent date

Mixed in with the fragments of in-scribed jars from the Palace of the King were two potsherds with portions of Eighteenth Dynasty hieratic copies of two famous literary texts the Instruction of hmenemhet I (Fig 39 4)495 and a n-ell-

4 0 2 Thanks u e may suppose to the channel con- necting the Uirket Habri with the Nile (see Engelbach and 12facaldin B u l l rle I I n s t rlampgple XS52)

4 9 3 See the second column of the table of Fig 16 above

4 0 1 See De Brick On the 3Ieaning of the Name fPpj Orzentalza S e e r l a n d z c a 1049 pp 1-22

6 Ou stones of this type see my O s t r a k a a n d Tame- S t o n r s pp 45-46

4 9 6 See eg Holscher E r c a c a t i o n o M e d i n e t I I a b u 1132 Figs 27 28

0 Small portions of the begitlr~irlg of the text (Pap Sallier 11 1-2) are preserved

242 JOURNAL S~UDIESOF NEAREASTERK

known model letter of the earlier Middle Iiingdom (Fig 39 5)498

MTith the exception of some pieces of in- scribed alabaster vases from the store- rooms of the Temple of Amdn499 of xvhich unhappily I can find no copies or photo- graphs this completes the corpus of Eighteenth Dynasty inscriptions recov-erecl from the palace by the Metropolitan 3luseums espedibion A few Late Dynas- tic burials with inscribed coffins some Demotic ostraka and half a dozen in- scribed amphorae of the Greco-Roman Period were also found but these have no bearing on the history of the Malkata as

a royal residence-a history which seems to have ended abruptly vith the rise of the Nineteenth Dynasty

Exclusive of Amenhotep I11 himself thirteen royal persons are mentioned on inscribed objects found within the con- fines of the Malkata palace Though the names of some of these persons appear on objects or in contests of no particular his- torical significance it seems desirable nevertheless to list them all in chronologi- cal order accompanied by indications of the types and quantities of the inscrip- tions in which they occur

Hatshepsut I name-stone probably from rtledinet Habu Thutmose 111 4 document-sealings (Types S 1 2 Fig 31) 4

scarabs (Types R 24-27 Fig 34) Amenliotep 11 2 document-sealings (Type S 3 Fig 31) Tllutnlose I V 9 jar-labels (Types 31 32 45 Figs 5 t i ) 2 docu-

ment-sealings (Types S 4 5 Fig 31) Queen JIute~nuya I jar-label (Type 64 Fig 7) Queer1 Tiy I jar-label (Type 98 Fig 8) numerous brick

stimys (Types 111 IT Fig 30) 32 ring bezels (Types R 12-16 Fig 34) 2 scarabs (p 233 and n 419) 1 kohl-tube and 2 rase fragment^ (Fig 35 d q r)

Tlic Kings (Great) Wife (=T iy ) 26 jar-labels (Types 7 18 94 129 147 172 207 Figs 4 8 10 11 1314) 1jar-sealing (Tgt-pe 0 Fig 26)

Queen Sitarniln 51 jar-labels (Types 94-97 112 113 137 139 Figs8911) 2 ring bezels (Type R 17 Fig 34)

Princess Henettoneb Rlentioned on a sandstone stela (Figs 37 bot-tom 39 3)

Irince Arnenhotep (=Amenliotep IV ) 1 jar-sealing (Type KK Fig 27) ilmenhotep IV (ilkhenaten) 3 document-sealings (Types S 97 120 124 Fig

33) 1 ring bezel (Type H 18 Fig 34) Smenklikar 2 ring bezels (Types R 19 20 Fig 34) Tutcankhnmtin I ring bezel (Type R 21 Fig 34) (JueenAnkhesenamOn (CZrlkhesenpatten) 1 document-sealing (Type P 125 Fig 33) 1 ring

bezel (Type R 22 Fig 34) Horelnlieb 1 fragment of sandstone doorjamb (Fig 37 1q1-

per right)

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the and its wine is (even) more plentifulm3 than for his principal palace a t A m a r ~ ~ a ~ ~ ~ term m3rw was probably derived by Akhenaten from some portion of his fathers palace at Thebes where how- ever the full name ~vould in all likelihood have been the m3rw of Amiin Granted that a part of the Theban palace was so named n-e can hardly doubt that the part in question was the isolated northern quarter with the temple and inclosure of Amiin

Fortunately there is inscriptional evi- dence to show that hmenhotep I11actual-ly did build a Maru-Amtin across the river from Luxor in the general locality -

occupied by the illalkata temple inclo- sure This evidence is found in lines 12-14 of the kings well-known granite stela in C a i r~ ~here following descriptions of the mortuary temple in western Thebes and the temple a t Luxor there appears the follo~i-ing account of a hitherto un-identified structure

Ariotller nlonulrie~it which His Majesty 111tde for his father Amfin making for him a

r r i l n i (gt-) as an offering to the god -I n

oppositeg Soutllern a place ofO ~ e t ~ ~ ~ arnusernent for my Father in his goodly festi- va l (~ ) In it I erected a great templeM1 (which is) like the Sun (Rc)when it appears in glory on the horizon and ~vhich is planted with all (kinds of) flowers Fair is the Primaeval Water (inla) which ii in its lake at every season4g2

8 See above pp 178 and 182

1x5 Ko 34025 See Lacau Stkles ilu Touuel E m p i r e 11 S V I The text as restored by Sethy I contains a t~rirnber of iniswritings which are emended by Spiegel- berg in R e c l r a a S X 4CL43 (see esp p 41 UII 5-9)

l a gHl-I lr -n before the face of facing-here I believe in the sense of directly across (the iVile) from Compare the common expression for west- err1 Thebes Bft-l~in b s Opposite-her-Lord ( I i7b 111 276 b)

The temple of Luxor On a map of Thebes a line drau-n from the sanctuary of the Lrixor temple a r ~ d projected westward a t right angles to the corirse of the river passes just to the north of the palace area

(I t -nr r t a stock expression uot really in- dicative of the actual size of the temple which irl this case happeus to have bee11 relatively small

(its) water-like the pouring forth of the Inun- dation (Hpy)a4 created by the Lord of Eter- nity Numerous are the possessions of the place The taxes of every country are received and plentiful tribute is brought before my Father being the presentations of all lands

Aside from the comments made in the footnotes there seems to be nothing which needs to be added to this description of what would appear to have been the northern quarter of the Malkata palace except to note that for an inscription of its type and period it is unusually accurate and complete

IX MISCELLANEOUS INSCRIPTIONS

Among the few inscribed objects found in the ruins of the palace which do not belong to one of the eight categories al- ready discussed were two fragments of a name-stone of H a t ~ h e p s u t ~ ~ j picked up by Lansing in November 1917 in the vil- lage area to the n-est of the North Pa1ace here can be little doubt that the stone

came originally from the temple of Hat- shepsut and Thutmose I11 at Medinet Habu where numerous examples of the same type have been found4 and that it had wandered thence into the palace area at a relatively recent date

Mixed in with the fragments of in-scribed jars from the Palace of the King were two potsherds with portions of Eighteenth Dynasty hieratic copies of two famous literary texts the Instruction of hmenemhet I (Fig 39 4)495 and a n-ell-

4 0 2 Thanks u e may suppose to the channel con- necting the Uirket Habri with the Nile (see Engelbach and 12facaldin B u l l rle I I n s t rlampgple XS52)

4 9 3 See the second column of the table of Fig 16 above

4 0 1 See De Brick On the 3Ieaning of the Name fPpj Orzentalza S e e r l a n d z c a 1049 pp 1-22

6 Ou stones of this type see my O s t r a k a a n d Tame- S t o n r s pp 45-46

4 9 6 See eg Holscher E r c a c a t i o n o M e d i n e t I I a b u 1132 Figs 27 28

0 Small portions of the begitlr~irlg of the text (Pap Sallier 11 1-2) are preserved

242 JOURNAL S~UDIESOF NEAREASTERK

known model letter of the earlier Middle Iiingdom (Fig 39 5)498

MTith the exception of some pieces of in- scribed alabaster vases from the store- rooms of the Temple of Amdn499 of xvhich unhappily I can find no copies or photo- graphs this completes the corpus of Eighteenth Dynasty inscriptions recov-erecl from the palace by the Metropolitan 3luseums espedibion A few Late Dynas- tic burials with inscribed coffins some Demotic ostraka and half a dozen in- scribed amphorae of the Greco-Roman Period were also found but these have no bearing on the history of the Malkata as

a royal residence-a history which seems to have ended abruptly vith the rise of the Nineteenth Dynasty

Exclusive of Amenhotep I11 himself thirteen royal persons are mentioned on inscribed objects found within the con- fines of the Malkata palace Though the names of some of these persons appear on objects or in contests of no particular his- torical significance it seems desirable nevertheless to list them all in chronologi- cal order accompanied by indications of the types and quantities of the inscrip- tions in which they occur

Hatshepsut I name-stone probably from rtledinet Habu Thutmose 111 4 document-sealings (Types S 1 2 Fig 31) 4

scarabs (Types R 24-27 Fig 34) Amenliotep 11 2 document-sealings (Type S 3 Fig 31) Tllutnlose I V 9 jar-labels (Types 31 32 45 Figs 5 t i ) 2 docu-

ment-sealings (Types S 4 5 Fig 31) Queen JIute~nuya I jar-label (Type 64 Fig 7) Queer1 Tiy I jar-label (Type 98 Fig 8) numerous brick

stimys (Types 111 IT Fig 30) 32 ring bezels (Types R 12-16 Fig 34) 2 scarabs (p 233 and n 419) 1 kohl-tube and 2 rase fragment^ (Fig 35 d q r)

Tlic Kings (Great) Wife (=T iy ) 26 jar-labels (Types 7 18 94 129 147 172 207 Figs 4 8 10 11 1314) 1jar-sealing (Tgt-pe 0 Fig 26)

Queen Sitarniln 51 jar-labels (Types 94-97 112 113 137 139 Figs8911) 2 ring bezels (Type R 17 Fig 34)

Princess Henettoneb Rlentioned on a sandstone stela (Figs 37 bot-tom 39 3)

Irince Arnenhotep (=Amenliotep IV ) 1 jar-sealing (Type KK Fig 27) ilmenhotep IV (ilkhenaten) 3 document-sealings (Types S 97 120 124 Fig

33) 1 ring bezel (Type H 18 Fig 34) Smenklikar 2 ring bezels (Types R 19 20 Fig 34) Tutcankhnmtin I ring bezel (Type R 21 Fig 34) (JueenAnkhesenamOn (CZrlkhesenpatten) 1 document-sealing (Type P 125 Fig 33) 1 ring

bezel (Type R 22 Fig 34) Horelnlieb 1 fragment of sandstone doorjamb (Fig 37 1q1-

per right)

METROPOLITAN OF ARTMUSEUM NEW YORE

4s Hayes JSES VII 1-10 (see P I I 11 I artd 3 ) 99 Lansirig o p ci t p 12 Pusener in v a n cle TValle L a T r a n s m i e s i o r ~ des f(+tes 1itttraires Egypt iens pp 41-50

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known model letter of the earlier Middle Iiingdom (Fig 39 5)498

MTith the exception of some pieces of in- scribed alabaster vases from the store- rooms of the Temple of Amdn499 of xvhich unhappily I can find no copies or photo- graphs this completes the corpus of Eighteenth Dynasty inscriptions recov-erecl from the palace by the Metropolitan 3luseums espedibion A few Late Dynas- tic burials with inscribed coffins some Demotic ostraka and half a dozen in- scribed amphorae of the Greco-Roman Period were also found but these have no bearing on the history of the Malkata as

a royal residence-a history which seems to have ended abruptly vith the rise of the Nineteenth Dynasty

Exclusive of Amenhotep I11 himself thirteen royal persons are mentioned on inscribed objects found within the con- fines of the Malkata palace Though the names of some of these persons appear on objects or in contests of no particular his- torical significance it seems desirable nevertheless to list them all in chronologi- cal order accompanied by indications of the types and quantities of the inscrip- tions in which they occur

Hatshepsut I name-stone probably from rtledinet Habu Thutmose 111 4 document-sealings (Types S 1 2 Fig 31) 4

scarabs (Types R 24-27 Fig 34) Amenliotep 11 2 document-sealings (Type S 3 Fig 31) Tllutnlose I V 9 jar-labels (Types 31 32 45 Figs 5 t i ) 2 docu-

ment-sealings (Types S 4 5 Fig 31) Queen JIute~nuya I jar-label (Type 64 Fig 7) Queer1 Tiy I jar-label (Type 98 Fig 8) numerous brick

stimys (Types 111 IT Fig 30) 32 ring bezels (Types R 12-16 Fig 34) 2 scarabs (p 233 and n 419) 1 kohl-tube and 2 rase fragment^ (Fig 35 d q r)

Tlic Kings (Great) Wife (=T iy ) 26 jar-labels (Types 7 18 94 129 147 172 207 Figs 4 8 10 11 1314) 1jar-sealing (Tgt-pe 0 Fig 26)

Queen Sitarniln 51 jar-labels (Types 94-97 112 113 137 139 Figs8911) 2 ring bezels (Type R 17 Fig 34)

Princess Henettoneb Rlentioned on a sandstone stela (Figs 37 bot-tom 39 3)

Irince Arnenhotep (=Amenliotep IV ) 1 jar-sealing (Type KK Fig 27) ilmenhotep IV (ilkhenaten) 3 document-sealings (Types S 97 120 124 Fig

33) 1 ring bezel (Type H 18 Fig 34) Smenklikar 2 ring bezels (Types R 19 20 Fig 34) Tutcankhnmtin I ring bezel (Type R 21 Fig 34) (JueenAnkhesenamOn (CZrlkhesenpatten) 1 document-sealing (Type P 125 Fig 33) 1 ring

bezel (Type R 22 Fig 34) Horelnlieb 1 fragment of sandstone doorjamb (Fig 37 1q1-

per right)

METROPOLITAN OF ARTMUSEUM NEW YORE

4s Hayes JSES VII 1-10 (see P I I 11 I artd 3 ) 99 Lansirig o p ci t p 12 Pusener in v a n cle TValle L a T r a n s m i e s i o r ~ des f(+tes 1itttraires Egypt iens pp 41-50

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393 Inscriptions from the Palace of Amenhotep IIIWilliam C HayesJournal of Near Eastern Studies Vol 10 No 1 (Jan 1951) pp 35-56Stable URL

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