. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . 59 of the Royal Canon of Turin (Lepsius, Auswahl, pl. iv. col. vi. 1. 3 ; cf. Mas-pero, Études de 3Iythologie et dArchéologie Égyptiennes, vol. ii. p. 441). An inscription in the quarriesof Hât-nûbû bears the date of the year 24 (Blackden-Frazer, work cited above, pi. xv. 1) : if it hasbeen correctly copied, the reign must have been four years at least longer than the chronologists ofthe time of the Ramessides thought. 8 This title is met with at Hammamât (Burton, Excerpta Hieroglyphica, pi. x. ; Lepsius, Denkm ,ii. 115 c), at Tanis (Pétrie, Tan
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . 59 of the Royal Canon of Turin (Lepsius, Auswahl, pl. iv. col. vi. 1. 3 ; cf. Mas-pero, Études de 3Iythologie et dArchéologie Égyptiennes, vol. ii. p. 441). An inscription in the quarriesof Hât-nûbû bears the date of the year 24 (Blackden-Frazer, work cited above, pi. xv. 1) : if it hasbeen correctly copied, the reign must have been four years at least longer than the chronologists ofthe time of the Ramessides thought. 8 This title is met with at Hammamât (Burton, Excerpta Hieroglyphica, pi. x. ; Lepsius, Denkm ,ii. 115 c), at Tanis (Pétrie, Tanis, i. pi. i., and p. 4 ; ii. p. 15), at Bubastis (Naville, Bubastis. c, d, and pp. 5, 6. The explanation of it has been given by E. de Rougé (Recherches, pp. 116,117). PAPI I. AND HIS MINISTER UNI. 417 campaigns, in which he reduced them to a state of helplessness, and extendedthe sovereignty of Egypt for the time over regions hitherto Ûni began his career under At first a simple page in the palace,3 he. THE MASTABAT-EL-FARATJN, LOOKING TOWARDS THE WEST FAÇ oucceeded in obtaining a post in the administration of the treasury, and after-wards that of inspector of the woods of the royal Papi took himinto his friendship at the beginning of his reign, and conferred upon him thetitle of friend, 6 and the office of head of the cabinet, in which position he 1 The inscription of the tomb of Uni, which is the principal monument of the reign of Papi I. and ofhis two successors, was discovered by Mariette in the necropolis of Abydos (Mariette, Abydos, vol. xliv., xlv., and Catalogue Général, p. 84, No. 522). It was taken to the Boulaq Museum (Mariette,Notices des principaux Monuments, 1876, pp. 280,281, No. 922). Published and analysed by E. de Kougc{Recherches, pis. vii., viii., and pp. 117-144), partially translated by Maspero (Histoire Ancienne, 4thedit., pp. 81-85) and by Brugsch (Geschichte JEgyptens, pp. 95-102), it wa
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