RAMESES IV.

which he is said to have conquered, its appearance proves nothing more than that the scribe, who drafted the inscriptions for his temple, copied it out from the Hst of Thothmes III., together with several others, without any regard to the history of his master's reign. The latter part of the reign of Rameses III. was a period of peace, for the king's aim was not conquest, but the prosecution of commercial enterprise. The wealth of Egypt at this time must have been enormous, otherwise the king could not have presented to the gods of the temples of Thebes, Abydos, and Memphis the valuable series of gifts which are enumerated in his great papyrus preserved in the British Museum. The farthest place in the south where the name of Rameses III. is found is Semna, where it appears near a door built by Thothmes III.' The reign of Rameses IV. was short, and in it nothing of importance happened in Nubia ; the greatest work undertaken by him was the construction of a road in the Wadi Hammamat from the Nile to the Red Sea. In the reign of Rameses V. the Prince of Kash was called Pa-ur. He was a devoted servant of his lord, for in his grave near Ibrim (Primis) are sculptured figures of the king and his queen " Nefert-art. Rameses VI. appears to have carried out some works at Emmaat," the modern 'Amada, in Nubia, for the Prince of Kash, one Pennut, who was the Atennu, or Viceroy, of Uauat and Akita, dedicated the revenue from a piece of land for ever to the maintenance of the service which was connected with the worship of the statue of the king. The area of the " parcel " of land was 320,000 square cubits. This information is derived from the inscriptions on the walls of the tomb of this official at Aniba, near Ibrim, wherein are also depicted several scenes connected with the burial and worship of the deceased. Pennut is seen worshipping the Cow-goddess Hathor, and in a shrine within the funeral mountain is the goddess Apet, holding a frog in her hand. Elsewhere are reliefs of the presentation of the deceased and his wife to Osiris, the Great Scales in the Judgment Hall, the ' See Lepsius, Denkmdler, Abth. iii., 47 a.

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