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THE JOURNAL OF

Egyptian

ArchaeologyVOLUME 53

DECEMBER 1 9 6 7

PUBLISHED BY

THE EGYPT EXPLORATION SOCIETY2 HINDE STREET, MANCHESTER SQUARE, LONDON, W. 1

Price to non-members 70s.

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THE JOURNAL OF

Egyptian Archaeology

V O L U M E 5 3

P U B L I S H E D B Y

TH E EG Y PT EX PLO RATIO N SO CIETY2 H I N D E S T R E E T , M A N C H E S T E R S Q U A R E , L O N D O N , W . 1

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CONTENTS

PAGEEDITORIAL FOREWORD 1QASR IBRJ M DECEMBER 1966 . . . . . J. Martin Plumley 3SINUHE'S M ESSAGE TO THE K I N G : A R EPLY TO A RECENT

ARTICLE J. W. B. Barns 6T H E FISHES AND OTHER AQUATIC ANIMALS ON THE P U N T-

RELIEFS AT D EIR EL-BAHRI E . Dane lius and H. Steinitz . 15NAMES AND H ISTORY OF THE SANCTUARIES BUILT BY

T UTHMOSIS I I I AT D EIR EL-BAHRI . . . . Jadwiga Lipiriska . 25STELOPHOROUS STATUETTES IN THE BRITISH M USEUM H. M. Stewart 3 4

FOUR E GYPTIAN P IECES IN THE BIRMINGHAM C IT Y

3 4

M USEUM John Ruffle . . . . 3 9E IN E ABSTANDSURKUNDE AUS DER Z EIT DES NEUEN

REICHES S. Allam . . . . 4 7T H E PRACTICE OF DENTISTRY IN ANCIENT E G Y PT . F . Filce Leek 5 1ZUM OSTRAKON BRITISH MUSEUM5 6 3 7 S. Allam . . . . 5 9T H E ILLUSORY YEA R 36 OF O SORKON I . H . K . Jacquet-Gordon . 63THREE PHOENICIAN SEALS OF THE E ARLY F IRST M I L L

63

ENNIUM B.C. . . . . . . . . W. A. Ward 6 9Two M UMMIES OF ANCIENT E GYPTIANS IN THE H ANCOCK

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M USEUM, NEWCASTLE P. H. K . Gray 7 5ALLEGORY IN G REECE AND E G Y P T . . . . J. Gw yn Griffiths 7 9T HE G O D ' S 7 H T-R E L I C S E . A. E. Reymond 10 3T HE L ATER PHASES OF M EROITIC C IVILIZATION B . G. Haycock 1 0 7M OR E P APYRI FROM THE BRITISH M USEUM R. A. Coles . . . . 1 2 1SIR H AROLD IDRIS BELL E . G. Turner, T. C. Skeat,

and J. D. Thomas r 3 !PRELIMINARY R EPORT ON THE EXCAVATIONS AT NO RT H

r 3 !

SAQQARA 1 9 6 6 - 7 W. B. Emery 1 4 1T HE T ELL EL-F ARA' IN E XPEDITION 1967 M. V. Seton-Williams 1 4 6

BRIEF C OMMUNICATIONS: Papyrus and the adhesive properties of its cell sap in relation topaper-making, by F . N . Hepper and T. Reynolds, p. 1 5 6 ; Lebensmiide 83 , by J. Gwyn

Griffiths, p. 1 5 7 ; The father of Khnumhotpe II of Beni Hasan, by D. B. Redford, p. 1 5 8 ;

Remarks on some aspects of Egyptian art, by A. M. Bakir, p. 1 5 9 ; Was Queen Mutnedjemetthe owner of Tomb 33 in the Valley of the Queens?, by Elizabeth Thomas, p. 1 6 1 ; Vizier

Mentehetef, by Jac. J. Janssen, p. 1 6 3 ; Th e mythical Sea of Kni ves, by H. M. Stewart, p. 1 6 4 ;

The Symbol ism of a Mu mm y Case, by John Bennett, p. 1 65 ; Spoken and written Meroi tic:

a note on the terminal formulae in Meroi tic funerary inscript ions from Armenn a West , by

Bruce G. Trigger, p. 166 .

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CONTENTS

PAGER EVIEWS

J. C ERNY, Sir Alan Gardiner 1879-1963 . . . Reviewed by C . H. S. Spaull 170C . ALDRED, Egypt to the end ofthe Old Kingdom . Janine Bourriau . . . 1 7 0

H. S. BAKER, Furniture in the Ancient World . . C . H. S. Spaull . . . 170

H. K AYSER, Die Mastaba des Uhemka . , . C . H. S. Spaull . . . 1 7 2

H. G. F ISCHER, Inscriptions from the Coptite Nome . C . H. S. Spaull . . . 173E . E DEL, Altagyptische Grammatik . . . T. G. H. James . . . 1 74W . SCHENKEL, Memphis Herakleopolis Theben . T. G. H. James . . 175

B. P ORTER , R. L . B. M O S S, a nd E . W . B URNEY, Topo

graphical Bibliography. L The Theban Necropolis.

Part ii. Royal Tombs and Smaller Cemeteries . . T. G. H. James . . . 1 76N I N A DE G. DAVIES, Private Tombs at Thebes. Vol. IV A . F . Shore . . - 1 7 7E . F . C AMPBELL, The Chronology of the Amarna Letters K. A . Kitchen . . . 178M . S CHIFF G IORGINI, C . R OBICHON , and J. L ECLANT,

Soleb. Vol. I T. G. H. James . . . 1 8 2

R. ANTHES, Mit Rahineh 1956 . . . T. G. H. James . - 1 8 3A . M . BAKIR, The Cairo Calendar No. 86637 J o n n Barns . . . . 1 8 4P . DERCHAIN, Le Papyrus Salt 825 {B. M. 10051) . J. Gwyn Griffiths . . 186

R. A . P A CK , The Greek and Latin Literary Texts from

Greco-Roman Egypt . . . . . . J. David Thomas . . . 1 8 8

S. DARIS, Papiri Milanesi (P. Med.) I tin. 13-87 . E . G . T u r n e r . . . 1 8 8

R. BIANCHI BANDINELLI, The Buried City. Excavations

at Leptis Magna . . . . . D . E . Strong . . . 1 8 9

H. BRAUNERT, Die Binnenwanderung . . . - J- David Thomas . . . 1 8 9

L I S T O F PLATESP LATES I , II .

P LATES III , IV.

P L AT E V.

P LATES V I , V I I .

P LATES V I I I , I X

P L AT E X.

P L AT E XL

P L AT E X I I .

P LATES X I I I , X I V

P LATES XV, XVI.

P L AT E X V I I .

P L AT E X V I I I .

P LATES XIX, XX

P LATES X X I - X X V I .

PLATES XXVII, XXVIII.

Qasr Ibrim December 19 66 . . . between pp. 4 and 5

Stelophorous statuettes in the British Museum between pp. 36 and 37

Egyptian pieces in Birmingham . . . facing p. 40

Egyptian pieces in Birmingham . . between pp. 42 and 43

Dentistry in Ancient Egypt . . . between pp. 5 2 and 53

Dentistry in Ancient Egypt . . . . facing p. 56University College stela of Osorkon I . . facing p. 64

Phoenician seals of the early First Millennium B.C. facing p. 69

The Denon Mummy . . . . between pp. 76 and 77

The Coates Mummy

Papyrus London Inv. 2935-6

Sir Harold Idris Bell

North Saqqara 1 9 6 6 - 7North Saqqara 1 9 6 6 - 7Tell el-Fara'in 1967

between pp. 78 and 79

facing p. 122

facing p. 1 3 1

between pp. 142 and 14 3

between pp. 1 44 and 145

between pp. 150 and 1 5 1

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17 2 REVIEWS Th er e are a few mino r slips which are listed below:

p. 84 an d illustration I 10. Th e s ign is printed upside-down.p. 337, illustration 118. T h e T.T. numbers are not 493, 494 but 493, 594.p. 337, illustration 140. T h e T.T. number is not 403d but 403c. C. H. S. SPAULL

Die Mastaba des Uhemka. Ein Grab in der JVuste. By HA NS AYSER. eitschrift des Museum s zu Hildesheim.Neue Folge, Heft 15. Hannover, 1964. Pp. 80, pls. 24, line drawings 4. Price not stated.

The Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim is fortunate enough to possess an Old-Kingdom mastaba fromGiza, a fru it of th e excavations largely su ppor ted by Wilhelm Pelizaeus an d con ducted initially by Stein-dorff and later with such brilliant success by Junker.

Th is particular mastaba was discovered in 1906, bu t owing to the 1914 war did no t reach Hildesheimuntil 1925. Here it was erected, dismantled because of the 1939 war, again erected in 1948 and yet againdismantled for transference to the new m useum which had been built. Its erection there was delayed becauseof the necessity to carry o ut work to stop deterioration of the ston e, so that it was only in 1964 th at it wasagain on view.

The actual mastaba was12 x 6 m. in d imensions, but in the museum i t i s only the cul t-chamber ( 2 . 3 0 ~1 - 2 0 m.), which alone is decorated, that is on display. Incidentally it is stated that London is among theplaces in Europ e that has such a chamber, b ut this is unhappily no longer true.

T h e present book is a guide for the visitor to this monum ent. I t begins with a general account of th econtext in which suchmastabas were built and what purpose they were supposed t o serve, continues with astat em ent of what little is known of Uhemka himself, and the n goes on to a detailed description o f th e cult-room itself. Each of the four walls is the subject of a complete line drawing accompanied by a full descrip-tion.

After the general account of mastabas and them articular description of this one, an amount of spacecom prising nearly half the whole text of the book is devoted to setting ou t each hieroglyphic legend or passageindividually and accompanied by a translation. The use of this to the lay reader is dubious, firstly becausethe texts are, one or two small restorations apart, already fully printed in the line drawings with th e exceptionof the f a ~ a d e , nd secondly because it would be q uite impossible for a non-Egyptologist to correlate thetext with the translation. Incidentally these texts and translations are not entirely without small errors andinconsistencies. I have noticed:

p. 45, 1st text. Tran slation ofr& niswt is omitted.p. 49, 3rd text. Translation ofmitrt is omitted.p. 50, 5th text.-- is represented byz, in p. 60, 6th text, bytsch, in p. 66, 4th text, byt.p. 52, 5th text. No t Niwosret bu t Njsutwosret as in p. 60, 2nd text.p. 54, 2nd text. Not Neferzes but Noferzes as in p. 50, 5th text.p. 61, 1st text. Kahe rsetef no t Kachersetef.p. 68, and text. Surely Nenofer not Nofer.p. 69, line 3. Surely a garment not a sack.p. 76, 5th text. Mertitfes not Alertites.p. 77, 5th text.-no t o .

Th is section ends with a note on U hemka and his family including their titles and showing how the informa-tion available stretches through five generations: grandparents, parents, Uhemka himself, his children andgrandchildren.

T h e book concludes with a set of twenty-four plates of good quality and apposite to th e subject. Onlyeight of these, however, are detailed illustrations of the ma stabain question. T hi s is a pity, for it would surelyhave been both instructive and interesting for the visitor to the m useum to have been provided with a fullpictorial record of what he had seen. C. H. S. SPAULL