MacattsteR—On a Monument of Ru. 265 
The entire back inscription is surmounted by the Utas, right and 
left eyes of Horus, with between them a sen or ring. 
The person herein commemorated is the famous Rui, the Superior 
of the house of Hatasu, who flourished about 1300 B. c. under Menep- 
thah I1., Hotephima, and his successor Seti II. He filled the offices 
of Commander of the Legion of Amen, Superintendent of the Store- 
house of Amen, Chief of Constructions, High Priest of Amen, and, 
according to this monument, he was Mayor of the Palace, Chancellor 
of the Exchequer, and Superintendent of the Granaries. 
The name Rui is peculiar, although it occurs elsewhere as an 
Egyptian personal name ;! and Brugsch Pacha has very ingeniously 
conjectured (Geschichte, p. 584) that the name is of Semitic origin. 
The Egyptian © is most frequently transliterated into Hebrew as Gy 
as in Rebu, and Rutennu for Lubim and Ludim; also in the Coptic 
we find the letters A and p used interchangeably in spelling the 
same words in different dialects, and for foreign words ;* similarly the 
1 See Lieblein’s Dictionary, Nos. 628, 635, 704, 798, 858, 908, 909, 930, 953, 
and 1018. Of these ten inscriptions (mostly, uf not all, of the period of the Israel- 
itish residence in Egypt) three (908, 909, 930) are most probably relative to our 
hero. The inscription commemorating him from West Silsilis (Lepsius, Denkindler, 
ur. 200, 2) gives the particulars of some of his offices as follows:—Erpaha, or 
Prince of the first rank ; Commander of the Legion of Amen; Superintendent of 
the Great House of Amen; Superintendent of the Treasury of Amen in the days of 
Menephthah II. The inscription given by Lepsius (p. 237) is of his son Ruma, 
who fulfilled some of these offices in the next reign. 
Of the persons of the name Rui enumerated in Lieblein the following are the 
genealogies :—The first is Amen-Rui, son of Amen Nebuahab and his wife Sata- 
men, brother of Aakheperka (Leiden). The second from Munich, is the priest Rui, 
whose wife Ai had four sons, Meriara, Uaunexeta, Ab-mai, and Amhebra, and two 
daughters Pipiu and Ani. The third from Vienna is in the family of the ‘‘ Wise 
Divine Scribe Shebeth”’ and his sister Ptahmerit, whose son was the scribe of the 
hierogrammatic school of the Lord of the two lands, Parenen, and his daughter 
Nefer Ari, whose daughter was Amen Mes. Rui the Merpa, or ruler of the house, 
was brother of Shebeth, and had another brother Ptahemhat, and two sisters Meri- 
nub and Meratayet. All these belonged to dynasties earlier than the x1x*h. The next 
from Turin isa lady, Rui, daughter of Ptahemheb and his wife Raau, who had 
brothers Uaui and Maaui. In a tablet in London (Lieblein, 953) is a genealogy of 
the descendants of Nashait, whose children were Bai and Rui, whose son was Chief 
of Constructions to the King, and his daughter Pipui; their children were Ame- 
nuahsu, son ; the Priest of the House of the Sacred Scribes, Rui, son; Ptahmua, 
son; and Anaahi, daughter. These names singularly resemble those in 635, and 
are probably of the same family. 
One stele in Boulaq (No. 67) bears the name of An-rui, son of Aahmes. 
2 Thus, for example, in the 10th of Acts, the Coptic Testament has in some 
dialects KOPNHPIOC for KopynAtvs, and in many other instances these letters 
are used convertibly in the different dialects: thus the Bashmuric uses A very 
frequently, where the Boheirish or Sahidic use PB, as in Aew! for P&I, 
or SPREAUTC for ALREPVS, &c. Modern Coptic in all its dialects sometimes 
follows the more Shemitic usage, and replaces with A the old Egyptian ©, as for 
