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 queen, Seti^s daughter, whose name Dr. Ebers reads T-mer-en- 



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Mut, ( ^ V\ J , answering to Thermufchis, the name 



given by Josephus (Antiq., ii. ix. 5 ; Ebers, Dureh Gosen, &c., 

 2nd ed., 539). 



Eusebius gives Merris as the name of the Princess. It is 

 true that a daughter of Rameses II. was called Meri, but the 

 date would not agree so well. I have a profile portrait. If 

 Dr. Ebers be right, this is the likeness, and, doubtless, a 

 faithful one, of Pharaoh's daughter ; and a very good-looking 

 Princess she was. 



The unequalled grandeur of the sepulchral halls of Seti I., 

 in the Valley of Kings, is renowned, especially in England, 

 where his grand translucent sarcophagus of alabaster 

 (arragonite) rests in the Soane Museum. That was an 

 astounding discovery when Dr. Emil Brugsch looked in and 

 seemed, by the light of his lantern, to see the Pharaohs lying 

 in such profusion that there was hardly one of the first rank 

 in history who did not confront the astonished explorer. 

 For Belzoni had found no Seti I. The venerated body had 

 been taken away for safety, as we now know, and was found at 

 Deir-el-Bahri, where his innocent child-like mask looked calmly 

 at the intruder with broad dark eyes, as you see it in the photo- 

 graph. The face looks like a baby's. It is almost always a 

 surprise to compare the profile with the full face of an Egyptian 

 sculpture. The full face is so much wider than one would 

 suppose; while the profile is more delicate, and yet more decided 

 and marked ; often having a sub-aquiline nose, so that you 

 would not suppose it could represent the same countenance as 

 seen full-faced. The whole family of five generations showed 

 perfectly well that they were a totally different people 

 from the Egyptians, and were almost certainly descended from 

 the Hittites. In the British Museum you may see a delightful 

 head of Seti, with that engaging, frank, and bright expression 

 so well expressed in Egyptian sculpture. 



It was in reality Seti who dug the Sweet-water Canal from 

 the Nile along the Wady Tumilat to Lake Timsah, and made 

 the land of Rameses green and lovely with the fertilising Nile 

 rills. But the young Rameses, of great Pharaonic birth from 

 his mother Tuau, was exalted from the cradle, since by his 

 right the throne was established, and we need not wonder at 

 the glory being given to him. 



Now we will follow the living Seti, with his chariots and 

 splendid army, in his first royal expedition over his eastern 



