The Nile : Notes for travellers in Egypt.

  • Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934.
Date:
1893
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Credit: The Nile : Notes for travellers in Egypt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    discovered. When it arrived in Turin, however, it was found to be broken into more than one hundred and fifty fragments. So far back as 1824, Champollion recognized the true value of the fragments, and placed some of them in their chronological order. Its evidence is of the greatest importance for the history of the XHIth and XlVth dynas- ties, because in this section the papyrus is tolerably perfect; for the earlier dynasties it is of very little use. On the monuments each Egyptian king has usually two names, the prenomen and the nomen; each of these is contained in a cartouche.* Thus the prenomen of Thothmes III. is ( o ^^ E3 ] Ra-men-cheper, and his nomen is f 5j^ \\\ I Tehuti-mes. Ra-men-cheper means something like Ra (the Sun-god) establishes becoming or existence; Tehuti-mes means born of Thoth, or Thoth's son. These names are quite distinct from his titles. Before the prenomen comes the title ^jp^ suten net, f King of the North and South, and after it comes ^k^ se J?a, son of the Sun, preceding the nomen. Each prenomen has a meaning, but it is at times difficult to render it exactly in English. Every king styled himself king of the North and South, and son of the Sun. The first title is sometimes varied by u Beautiful * Cartouche is the name which is usually given to the oval ( y, in which the name of a royal person is enclosed. t The ordinary word for kin? is 1 ^ suten. The word T A<WV\A Pharaoh, n'yiS, which the Hebrews called the kings of Egypt, is derived from the Egyptian •- -1 per da, otherwise written ^TT^ J\ -Ifl