THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN soon after the end of the Xllth Dynasty, and in the Tablet of Karnak there is mentioned a king with this prenomen who must have been one the kings of the XI I Ith Dynasty. Whether the Khutaui-Ra, ofwhom we have a statue, is the same as the king with this prenomen of the Tablet of Karnak cannot be said definitively, but the probability that he was almost amounts to certainty. Both Brugsch and Wiedemann make Khu-taui-Ra the first king of the Xlllth Dynasty ; the former said that his name was Sebek-hetep, but this is unlikely, as the latter has shown. ' Apart from these considerations the work of the statue is in the style of that which we meet with under the Xllth Dynasty, about B.C. 2300-2000. The inscription given above is remarkable for the fact that it mentions the great Sudan god Tetun, the governor of Ta-Kenset, or Nubia; this is one of the earliest references we have to this god in the Middle Empire, and it suggests that Khu-taui-Ra was a man of Sudani or Nubian origin, of whom a title rather than the name may be given in the second cartouche. In front of the king's statue was found also a curious little altar, of which an illustration is given on page 484 ; it is 124 inches high, and inches square, and belongs to a class which is rare in STATUK OK KIIU-TAUI-RA (front xt i • vuAv) FOUND AT sEMNA. Egypt. Near this was a brown sandstone model of a table of offerings, about 8 inches long, and 7 inches wide in the broadest part ; on it were traces of figures of offerings cut in outline. We also found two pieces of a brown sandstone figure of a priest, with traces of hieroglyphics down the front ; the work was in the style of that of the Xllth Dynasty.

During the clearance of the remainder of the sanctuary the men came upon pieces of alabastra and fragments of blue faience ' See my History of Egypt vol. iii., pp. 84 and 85.

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