SEN MUT—-AN EGYPTIAN CRICHTON 43 
or true voiced, signifying he has been tried in the Osorian Judgment 
Hall, and acquitted of deadly sin. 
The inscriptions consist of the stock prayers to the gods for 
bread, beer, flesh, fowls, &ec. There is also an unusual request that 
people visiting the temple will offer up prayers on his behalf. 
What a record these hieroglyphic inscriptions gave of Sen 
Mut—labourer, mason, designer, leader of all the handicrafts, 
sculptor, architect, steward of the fields, gardens, estates, cattle, 
slaves, husbandmen, granaries, and temple of Amen ; priest, scribe, 
historian, director, dean, and high priest of Menthu, Truth, and 
Neith ; regulator of the royal palace, lord privy seal, magistrate, 
judge, who leaned not with favour to either side, astronomer royal, 
the sovereigns’ reporter and interpreter, who accompanied the King 
in all his journeys; Governor of the north and south countries, the 
greatest lord in all the Jand, to whom all listened and gave heed, 
Chancellor of tle Exchequer and glorious friend of the King. But, 
as though these were not enough, we learn from another statue he 
was chief tutor to Hatshepsut’s eldest daughter Ra Neferu. This 
beautiful girl died just as she was approaching womanhood, and one 
wonders what this old man taught her of all the wisdom of the 
Egyptians, and what of her country, which then possessed a recorded 
history stretching over a period four times as great as that which 
divides us from the Norman Conquest. 
Great men sometimes reach eminence in a profession and a 
hobby, a Statesman may be alsoa writer. Italy had a genius great 
as an architect, sculptor, painter, and a poet. 
In Sen Mut we have many geniuses combined: a St. Jerome, 
a Michael Angelo, a Leonardi da Vinci, a Burleigh, a Herschel, 
a Baring, a Gladstone, a Beaconsfield, and a Cecil Rhodes. Sen Mut 
died at the age of 81, and was laid to rest in the tomb cut deep into 
the rocks at Aswan, as was customary. This chamber had been 
prepared long before, and the funeral stele is evidence that he could 
be great to the last, for, instead of the long roll of honours, there is 
a single inscription showing he was not ashamed of his lowly origin, 
and tlie sculptures picture him standing between his father and 
mother “whose names were not found in the writings.” 
