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Updated: June 10, 2025
At the end of a month, therefore, all the ladies of the court ran weeping and wailing to Queen Niort's, and begged her to rescue them. The worthy lady betook herself to the pharaoh, and, falling on her face, begged him to take compassion on the women of his father, and not let them die in destitution.
The generals took their places at the head of the columns, the pharaoh walked through the court thoughtfully, the civilians whispered with Hiram; Queen Niort's, left alone in the chamber, fell on her face before the statue of Osiris. It was after one. The light of the sun began to lessen. "Will night come in fact?" asked the pharaoh of Pentuer. "It will come, but during a very short interval."
In a chamber with bare walls, where in place of furniture there stood only a low wooden couch and a broken pitcher holding water, all in sign of mourning, Queen Niort's, the mother of the pharaoh, was sitting on a stone. She was in a coarse shirt, barefoot; her face was smeared with mud from the Nile, and in her tangled hair there were ashes.
"And even leave him his property at the intercession of Queen Niort's," said the treasurer. "At all events there will be order in the state, which for some time has been lacking." "But it seems to me that his holiness is making too great preparations," said the scribe. "I should finish all with the Greek regiments, and not employ the people."
After that the lady Niort's and some priests entered the barge which bore the royal mummy, the people hurled bouquets and garlands and the oars began to plash. Ramses XII had left his palace for the last time and was moving on the Nile toward his tomb in Theban mountains. But on the way it was his duty, like a thoughtful ruler, to enter all the famed places and take farewell of them.
Ramses threw a mantle over his shoulders, put on sandals unfastened and commanded to light the golden hall brightly. Then he went out, directing the servants not to go with him. He found Niort's in the hall; she was wearing coarse linen garments in sign that she was mourning. When she saw the pharaoh she wished to drop on her knees, but her son raised the queen and embraced her.
"Say, rather, my son, that it comes of the godlessness and extortion of Phoenicians," interrupted Queen Niort's. "For three days the chief of police from Pi-Bast is in Memphis with two assistants, and they are on the trail of the murderer and deceiver Lykon." "Who was hidden in Phoenician temples!" cried Niort's.
While some priests were hiding the remains of the pious pharaoh, others illuminated the underground chambers and invited the living to a feast in that dwelling. Ramses XIII, Queen Niort's, and Sem, with some civil and military dignitaries entered the dining-hall.
Now in the assembly was heard, not a murmur, but a cry, and it lasted a number of minutes. When it ceased Herhor continued calmly and with emphasis: "My most worthy consort, Queen Niort's, inconsolable through sorrow for her son, has abdicated the throne." "Permit!" exclaimed the nomarch of Memphis. "The most worthy viceroy has called the queen his consort.
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