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eise tlian the "fortress of tlie port of the South", wliicli Tefibi of Siut 

 States^ was liis soutliern f'rontier at about the same period, that is toward 

 the close of Heracloopolitan supremaoy. But Wh-'nh evidently pushed 

 the conquest no further during his life tinie, if this point was his frontier 

 at the erection of his tomb-stone in his fiftietli year. As the conquest 

 of the North was incomplete in his reign, he must be placed before Nb- 

 htp, who completed the conquest, and after tlie nomarch 'Intf. 



We have now determined the relative positions of six kings of the 

 dynasty. That of Nb-t'wy-R' still remains uncertain. It Las usually 

 been accepted that the Turin Papyrus assigns six kings to the eleventh 

 dynasty; in that case we should have no place in its ranks for our re- 

 maining Mentuhotep. As a matter of fact however, the papyrus shows 

 ander the sixth name piain traces of a seventh ; the remains of the \ß^ 

 in the title preceding tlie name are especially clear. Now the monuments 

 of Nb-t'wy-R' show beyond question tliat he ruled the whole country. 

 For his Operations in the Hammaniat quarries he mustered no less than 

 ten thousand men, three tliousand of whom came from the Delta; and 

 his skilled artisans were drawn from the "whole land". We must there- 

 fore place him after the conquest of the North, that is after Nb-htp. 

 We left a possible lacuna between Nb-htp and tlie vassal Tntf. But 

 the extent of Nb-t'\vy-R"s Operations in Hammamat is quite against 

 the conclusion that he immediately followed tlie union of all Egypt under 

 Nb-htp. Moreover, if we insert his reign after Nb-htp, we have no 

 king of the dynasty left to fiU the vacancy of the lost name at the end 

 of the dynasty in the Turin Papyrus. Furthermore Nb-t'wy-R' cele- 

 brated his Hb-sd already in the second year of his reign." He had thus 

 waited twenty eight years as crown prince, before his father's death had 

 brought him the crown. He is therefore likely to have been advanced 

 in years at his accession. His mighty vizier, Amenemhet, who mustered 

 ten thousand men for the Operations in Hammamat, and boasts of unusual 

 power, was therefore, as has been before suggested, probably able to 

 thrust aside a feeble old king, and become the founder of a new dynasty. 

 However this last supposition may be, I do not think that any other 



' Griffith, Siut. Tomblll, pl.ii, I.18. 



^ GoLENiscHEFF, Hammamat, pl. X, i (= LD II, 149c). 



