528 SEYFFARTH—PAPYRUS-SCROLL. 
length, and written in the time of Romulus.* The title and 
first words of the chapters of this new sacred book are, as 
usual, thier in red ink. 
ne is also in possession of “a gold spread-eagle ta- 
ken font: the same Mummy-case,” which proves that the de- 
ceased must have belonged to the most distinguished persons 
of his age. 
Further, “a Scarabeeus of white stone, very hard, about 2.5 
inches long, and 2 inches wide, the seal of the deceased, was 
found in the same tomb,” of which also Mr. Stone sent me a 
copy. It contains the following inscription—see Plate XIX., 
“The governor of the people, the lord of both the coun- 
tries, namely: the king crushing and justifying, the selected 
of Amun, the strong one, the crusher of the wicked, the illu- 
minator of the whole kingdom, the offspring of the Lord, the 
master of the lands, namely: The beloved of Amun, the 
— Shishank, the fervid, the deliverer of life, the 
er of all malefactors 
From this seal we learn that the deceased was once in the 
XXII. Dynast 
( i} for t 
mention two different kings, called Shishak, Shishank, Seson- 
sae of whom the goad one took - erusalem in the fifth 
year of Rehobo boam (1 Kings xi. 40); i n 945 B.C.t As 
then, according to vg ee Shishak i. Seoed 124 years be- 
fore Shishak aes t is obvious that the deceased 
being dee orated, like se ay with the seal of his king, Shi- 
shak I., must have lived about 1050 B. C.; “ear y> of 
was a contemporary of the kings Saul and David. It Js 
account of this early age that this Pigpranentell contains 0 
aheallent and careful a handwriting. 
‘Further, in the “same tomb, on the body of the decease 
a Tablet was found, SErronty the said king upon 
chariot with two horse and a groom,” accompanied by 
following i fnsaeipsiwa—-n0e Plate XIX., No. 
_ “The companion of the king of the 
nae 
ae world, the donor of life to the peered the Jerr: of those 
. 2 were the world.” 
business of 
hishak L; 
8 of the 
apie! bruising the 
