TETUN AND KHENSU governor of Ta-Kenset, and Sept, who is under his trees, adore ' this Pepi, and they carry the ladder for this Pepi, and they set up the ladder for this Pepi."

The god —-, whose name is read Khensu by Professor Maspero, and is glossed by Auha, was the god of the whole Sudan, and Tetun was the god of that portion of it which lies between the First and Second Cataracts, and Sept was the god of the Eastern Desert, and Eastern Delta, and the Egyptian colonies in the Peninsula of Sinai. The mention of the "ladder" recalls the old legend according to which the god Osiris was obliged to make use of a ladder whereon to mount from this earth to the iron platform of the sky. The ladder was set up by Horus and Set, who stood one on each side of it, and, as Osiris lacked the strength necessary for mounting it, each of these gods placed two of his fingers under one of his shoulders, and gave him the impetus which took him up the ladder into heaven. Whether the writer of the passage intended to pay a compliment to the Sudani folk, or whether he merely wished to indicate that his sovereign's power extended not only over the people of the Sudan, but also over their great gods, cannot be said. In either case the passage is of singular interest, for it contains, I believe, the earliest mention of the god Tetun, and proves that the gods of the Siidan were held by the Egyptians to be of sufficient importance to justify their introduction among their own divine companies. In respect of the god Khensu, it is interesting to note that the symbol of his name -2, which is given in the Pyramid Texts, is also found in a scene on the wall of a chapel of one of the Pyramids of Meroti (Northern Group, No. I, see I 1 mWW AAAAAA . H /WVW\ ( p, [] ] D AA/VW 527