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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt:...of h »ty-c "count" at this time, points clearly to its source in the royal favor. The designation of the appointment as "an offering which the king gives." the usual term for a mortuary gift of the king, certainly indicates that this term did not originally designate solely a mortuary gift, but must have at first enjoyed a wider application, which in course of time was narrowed to exclusively funerary largesses of the king. Later: A letter from Eduard Meyer suggests that the rank of count was given to the deceased father after his death as a mortuary honor. This would explain its designation as a mortuary gift, and the pronoun "him." REIGN OF ITY HAMMAMAT INSCRIPTION8 386. This is the only inscription of King Ity known. His pyramid mentioned in the inscription has never been foundb and the place of the king in the series of Pharaohs is uncertain. The inscription is dated in his first year, and records an expedition which was sent to procure the finer stone necessary for the king's pyramid. 387. Year of the first occurrence (of the numbering), fourth month of the first season, day 2.--Ihy (Yhy); Khufu (tfwf); commander of the army--Yakhetirni (Y3frt yrn(y)).c Came the ship captain, Ipi (Ypy), and Nekuptah (Pth-n-k3w) to do the work on the pyramid (called): "Fame-of-Ity" (Yty); together with 200 soldiers and 200 rworkmen, making1 200 (sic!). "Cut on the rocks in the Wadi Hammamat; text: Lepsius, Denkmdler, II, 115 f.; partially Golenischeff. Hammamat, VII; Sethe, Urkunden, I, 148; see Maspero, Recueil, 17, 56 ft. bSee Maspero, ibid., 56 B. cThese names were perhaps later inserted between the date and the following. REIGN OF IMHOTEP HAMMAMAT INSCRIPTION 388. This unknown king, from whom we have no...