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Tlie monuments of liis succcssor, S'nh-k'-R', show clearly that he like- 

 wise reigned in the period after the conquest. At Hammamat Ins records 

 (LD II, 150a = GoLENiscHEFF , Hamm. XV — XVII, 9 — 10) state that he 

 drew mon for the work in tlie quarries from the territory between Oxy- 

 rhynclius and Gebelen, showing that all upper Egyi^t practically was in 

 his hands. Similarly the boast of Henu, who had charge of the work 

 at Hammamat, that lie was a "queller of the Il'-nbw" (1. 8), shows tliat 

 he must have controlled the Delta. 



In the case of Nb-htp we und very remarkable and hitherto un- 

 noticed evidence of his position in tlie family. Fragments' of a now 

 vanished temple of Ins have survived at Gebelen, rebuilt into the well 

 of a Ptolemaic temple there. One block represents Nb-htp smiting an 

 enemy, bearing the inscription: "Prince of Tehenu and — (?)". He could 

 hardly have smitten tlie Libyans unless he had posse.ssion of the Delta. 

 Quite deci.'si\'e however is the remarkable scene on another block. Here 

 Nb-htp strikes down four enemies, three of whom are designated as 

 "Nubians, Asiatics (Sttyw), Libyans"; while the fourth, without inscrip- 

 tion, is an Egyptian! Over the Avhole is the foUowing significant in- 

 scription: "Billding the chiefs of the Two Lands, captnring the Sontli and 

 Northland, the foreign countries (h!shwt) and the two reglons (ydbwy) , 

 the Nine Bows and the Two Lands". Nb-htp was therefore the king 

 who completed tlie conquest of the North. For the first time since the 

 wars of the early dynastic kings with the Nortli, we have liere a Pharaoh 

 openly boasting of his victories over the Egyptians, and without hesitation 

 depicting his defeated countrymen among the despised bai-barians whom 

 he had conquercd. It is therefore perfectly certain that Nb-htp belongs 

 before Nb-ljrw-R\ We caiinot place him iramediately preceding this 

 king however; for in a contemporary relief at Sliatt er Regäl^, Nb-hrw-R' 

 is shown receiving the homage of a vassal king of his own family, an 

 otherwise unknown 'Int f. Now this coregent 'Intf cannot have been the 

 successor of Nb-brw-R\ for the reason that the Turin Papyrus shows 

 S'nli-k'-R' as Nb-hrw-R"s .successor. This unknown Tntf therefore 



' Now in Cairo; published (very inaccurately) by Daressy (Rec. XIV 26. XVI 42); 

 mach better by Frazer (PSBA XV 494, no. XV). I was fortunately able to use also a 

 dictionary copy by Erman. 



" PSBA 1881, 99—100; Petrie, .Season XVI, 489; Maspero, Hist. 1, 463. 



