. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . onu-ment. Wazet not Sebek ^ See above, p. 200 and cf. p. 291, below. ^ This was the reading of Professor Petrie,accepted by Mr. H. R. Hall after a study of themonument in the Candia Museum {P. S. B. A.,xxxi, 1909, p. 224). ^ Thus Sebek-Khu appears as a famouscommander of Amenemhat III, and the lastruler of theTwelfth Dynasty was Queen SebekNeferu. The inset here given (reversed) from asqueeze taken from the best preserved exampleof the disputed
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . onu-ment. Wazet not Sebek ^ See above, p. 200 and cf. p. 291, below. ^ This was the reading of Professor Petrie,accepted by Mr. H. R. Hall after a study of themonument in the Candia Museum {P. S. B. A.,xxxi, 1909, p. 224). ^ Thus Sebek-Khu appears as a famouscommander of Amenemhat III, and the lastruler of theTwelfth Dynasty was Queen SebekNeferu. The inset here given (reversed) from asqueeze taken from the best preserved exampleof the disputed sign will, however, I venture tothink, serve to settle the point at issue. Theessential difference between the two hieroglyphsis that in the case of the Sebek or Crocodile sign the neck slopes up gradually forward fromthe line of the body,while :inthe case ofWazet the neck of theAsp rises erect. Thesign is at best suiii-,.? marily executed, anda slight flaw is visiblein the stone betweenthe upper bend of theAsp and the fore-footof the Mes sign. But the Asps neck clearly --^ - turns up at an abruptangle. The support is not appropriate 290 THE PALACE OF MINOS, ETC. Evidenceof Inter-coursewithUpperEgypt. Chrono-logy CretanCrafts-men em-ployed forPyra-mids. Con-tinuedMinoanInter-courseduringEarlyXlllthDyn. Long Period of Intensive Contact with Egypt. The connexion of the personage of the monument with the TenthAphroditopolite Nome must itself be taken to point to a time when intercoursebetween Minoan Crete and Upper Egypt had not been severed eitherthrough the internal disruption of the Egyptian Monarchy or by the ensuingoccupation of the Delta by the Semitic, Hyksos tribes. The Tenth Aphroditopolite Nome lay immediately North of theThinite Nome in which was situated Abydos, where, within a closed tomb,the polychrome vase above described, belonging to the earlier phase ofM. M. II b, was found in association with a cylinder of Amenemhat III(t 1801-179
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