her death in giving birth to a little
daughter who did not survive her, and who rests in the same
coffin beside the mummy of her mother. None of the successors
of Painotmu--Masahirti, Manakhpirri, Painotmu II., Psiukhannit,
Nsbindidi--enjoyed a similar distinction, and if one of them happened to
surround his name with a cartouche, it was done surreptitiously, without
the authority of the sovereign.**

* The only monument of this prince as yet known gives him
merely the usual titles of the high priest, and the
inscriptions of his son Painotmu I. style him "First Prophet
of Amon." His name should probably be read Paionukhi or
Pionukhi, rather than Pionkhi or Piankhi. It is not unlikely
that some of the papyri published by Spiegelberg date from
his pontificate.

** Manakhpirri often places his name in a square cartouche
which tends at times to become an oval, but this is the case
only on some pieces of stuff rolled round a mummy and on
some bricks concealed in the walls of el-Hibeh, Thebes, and
Gebelein. If the "Psiukhannit, High Priest of Amon," who
once (to our knowledge) enclosed his name in a cartouche, is
really a high priest, and not a king, his case would be
analogous to that of Manakhpirri.

Painotmu II. contented himself with drawing attention to his
connection with the reigning house, and styled himself "Royal Son of
Psiukhannit-Miamon," on account of his ancestress Makeri having been the
daughter of the Pharaoh Psiukhannit.*

* The example of the "royal sons of Ramses" explains the
variant which makes "Painotmu, son of Manakhpirri," into
"Painotmu, royal son of Psiukhannit-Miamon."

The relationship of which he boasted was a distant one, but many of his
contemporaries who claimed to be of the line of Sesostris, and called
themselves "royal sons of Ramses," traced their descent from a far more
remote ancestor.

[Illustration: 401.jpg THE MUMMIES OF QUEEN MAKERI AND HER CHILD]

Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Emil Brugsch-
Bey.

The death of one high priest, or the appointment of his successor, was
often the occasion of disturbances; the jealousies between his children
by the same or by different wives were as bitter as those which existed
in the palace of the Pharaohs, and the suzerain himself was obliged
at times to interfere in order to restore peace. It was owing to an
intervention of t