158 Meyer: 



was the predecessor of Nb-hrw-R', and had been displaced by the latter, 

 who then allowed him to reign fov a tiine as a vassal. We may there- 

 fore regard the following order of kings as certain: 



Nb-htp 



The vassal Intf 



Nb-brw-R' 



Snb-k'-R' 

 But it is still uncertain whether there may not have been a reign or 

 tvvo between Nb-htp and the vassal Intf. This last question will bc 

 resumed later. 



Before discussing the position of Nb-t'wy-R', the remaining Mentu- 

 hotep of the four, let us now examine the positioiis to be assigned to 

 the remaining 'Intfs. As Steindokff has conclusively shown, we have 

 beside the vassal 'Intf, only two other Intfs, who are shown by the 

 contemporary moiiuments to belong in the eleventh dynasty. These are 

 the nomareh Tntf, and Horus W'h-'nh-'Intf. It is evident from the title 

 of the former, that he should head the family line, before they assumed 

 royal predieates. Even the erratic Karnalc list places such a noraarch 

 Tntf at the beginning of this dynasty. Horus Wh-'nh reigned before 

 the conquest of the North; indeed he began that conquest himself. His 

 tomb stela' erected in the fiftietli of his reign at Thebes states: 



". . . her northern boundary as far as the nome of Aphroditopolis." 

 I drove in the mooringstake' (that is, I landed) in the sacred valley, I 

 captured the entire Thinite nome, I opened all her fortresses (or prisons). 

 I made her^ the 'door of the North'." This 'door of the North' is of 

 course his northern frontier, corresponding to the 'door of the South' at 

 Elephantine, known since the sixth dynasty. W'h-'nh's 'door of the 

 North' in the nome of Aphroditopolis, can hardly have been anything 



' Mariette, Mon. div. 49, cf. p. 15; Rodge, Inscr. Hier. 161 — 162. 



^ Read the serpent and feather. That this is the jtroper reading is rendered ahiiost 

 certain hy the connected data. W'h-'nh is liere speakinf;- of the establishment of his northern 

 boundary. Tlie inscription of 'Intf-ykr (see helow) sliows that W'h-'njj ruled as far north 

 as Akhuiim, vvhich is directly across the river from the nome of Aphroditopolis, and the 

 latter is just north of the Thinite nome. 



' Compare Shaepe, Inscr. I, 79, 1. 14; Pap. Ebers 58,9, and Seihe, Verbum I, 259. 



* The Thinite nome is masculine; hence "her" is doubtless the nome of Aphroditopolis. 



