. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . o Binotliris of the IId dynasty; cf. p. 238 of this volume. 2 The expressions designating kingly power in the time of the Ancient Empire were firstanalysed by E. de Rougé, Recherches sur les monuments quon peut attribuer aux six premièresdynasties de Manéthon, pp. 32, 33 ; and subsequently by Erman, Mgy-pten und Mgyptisehes Leben,pp. 89-91. The explanation which I have given above has already been put forward in a smallmemoir entitled Sur les quatre noms officiels des rois dÉgypte (Études Égyptiennes, vol. ii. ; and in the Lectures Hi
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . o Binotliris of the IId dynasty; cf. p. 238 of this volume. 2 The expressions designating kingly power in the time of the Ancient Empire were firstanalysed by E. de Rougé, Recherches sur les monuments quon peut attribuer aux six premièresdynasties de Manéthon, pp. 32, 33 ; and subsequently by Erman, Mgy-pten und Mgyptisehes Leben,pp. 89-91. The explanation which I have given above has already been put forward in a smallmemoir entitled Sur les quatre noms officiels des rois dÉgypte (Études Égyptiennes, vol. ii. ; and in the Lectures Historiques, pp. 42-45). 3 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Gayet. The king is Amenôthes III., whoseconception and birth are represented in the temple of Luxor, with the same wealth of details thatwe should have expected, had he been a son of the god Amon and the goddess Mût: cf. Cham-pollion, Monuments de lÉgypte et de la Nubie, pl. cccxxix., 2-cccxli. ; Rosellini, Monumenti Storici,pl. 38-41 ; Lepsius, Denlcm., iii. 74, TUE BIRTH 01 HIS DOUBLE. 260 THE POLITICAL CONSTITUTION OF EGYPT. existence until the name had been conferred. The most ancient names wereoften only a short word, which denoted some moral or physical quality, asTiti the runner, Mini the lasting, Qonqeni the crusher, Sondi the formidable,Uznasît the flowery-tongued. They consisted also of short sentences, by whichthe royal child confessed his faith in the power of the gods, and his partici-pation in the acts of the Suns life— Khâfrî, his rising is Eâ ; Men- A kaûhorû, the doubles of Horus last for ever ; Usirkerî, the double of Kâis omnipotent. Sometimes the sentence is shortened, and the name of the A god is understood : as for instance, Usirkaf, his double is omnipotent ; Snofrûi, he has made me good ; Khûfûi, he has protected me, are putfor the names Usirkerî, Ptahsnofrûi,1 Khnûmkhûfûi, with the sup-pression of Eâ, Phtah, and Khnûmû.2 The name having once, as it w
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