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Possibly he was a son of Amenemhat III. The identification of the owners of the three western pyramids of Dashûr is due to M. de Morgan and his assistants, Messrs. Legrain and Jéquier, who excavated them from 1894 till 1896. It is more worn away, and does not present so imposing an appearance.
If thou wilt carry out this thy last desire, understand, royal Harmachis, that now this very night thou must die for a while in the flesh, what time thy soul shall look on spiritual things. "I am," I answered; "lead on." "It is well," said the priest. "Noble Amenemhat, we go hence alone."
It is interesting to note that one of the priestesses was a negress. The name Neb-hapet-Râ may be unfamiliar to those readers who are acquainted with the lists of the Egyptian kings. It is a correction of the former reading, "Neb-kheru-Râ," which is now known from these excavations to be erroneous. Petrie's arrangement. This king was followed by Amenemhat I, the first king of the XIIth Dynasty.
Amenemhat! awake, arise!" and she hobbled towards the corpse. "Why, how is it! By Him who sleeps, he's dead! untended and alone dead! dead!" and she sent her long wail of grief ringing up the sculptured walls. "Hush! woman, be still!" I said, gliding from the shadows. "Oh, what art thou?" she cried, casting down her basket. "Wicked man, hast thou murdered this Holy One, the only Holy One in Egypt?
"Ah! true, true; here mayst thou not abide, for if they found thee, surely they would put thee to the dreadful death ay, to the death by the waxen cloth. Nay, I will hide thee, and, when the funeral rites of the holy Amenemhat have been performed, we will fly hence, and cover us from the eyes of men till these sorrows are forgotten.
And as I slept upon a certain day in the chamber of the Harpers, in the tomb of Pharaoh that is by Tápé, there came to me a vision of my father, the aged Amenemhat, and he stood over me, leaning on his staff, and spoke, saying: "Look forth, my son." Then I looked forth, and with the eyes of my spirit saw the sea, and two great fleets grappling in war hard by a rocky coast.
And with me I took all the treasures of my father, Amenemhat, for I was not minded to go to Alexandria empty-handed and as a suppliant, but rather as a man of much wealth and condition. Now, as I went, I learned that Antony, following Cleopatra, had, indeed, fled from Actium, and knew that the end drew nigh.
"Of the rest of those seven-and-thirty nobles," I went on, making no answer, "are two-and-thirty missing. Some are dead, as Amenemhat is dead; some are slain, as Sepa is slain; and some, perchance, yet labour as slaves within the mines, or live afar, fearing vengeance." "It is so," they said: "alas! it is so. Harmachis the accursed betrayed the plot, and sold himself to the wanton Cleopatra!"
Visions, too, of a royal countenance bending at times over my rocking bed a countenance that I could not grasp, but whose beauty flowed through my fevered veins and was a part of me visions of childhood and of the Temple towers of Abouthis, and of the white-haired Amenemhat, my father ay, and an ever-present vision of that dread hall in Amenti, and of the small altar and the Spirits clad in flame!
The middle empire arose 3064 B.C. and lasted nearly twenty-four centuries. Under Pharaohs whose Negro descent is plainly evident, like Amenemhat I and III and Usertesen I, the ancient glories of Egypt were restored and surpassed. He drove them back and attempted to confine them to the edge of the Nubian Desert above the Second Cataract.
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