oyal Canon of Turin, An
inscription in the quarries of Hat-nubu bears the date of
the year 24: if it has been correctly copied, the reign must
have been four years at least longer than the chronologists
of the time of the Ramessides thought.

[Illustration: 255.jpg THE MASTABAT-EL-FARAUN, LOOKING TOWARDS THE WEST
FACADE]

Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Bechard.

He manifested his activity in all corners of his empire, in the nomes
of the Said as well as in those of the Delta, and his authority extended
beyond the frontiers by which the power of his immediate predecessors
had been limited. He owned sufficient territory south of Elephantine to
regard Nubia as a new kingdom added to those which constituted ancient
Egypt: we therefore see him entitled in his preamble "the triple
Golden Horus," "the triple Conqueror-Horus," "the Delta-Horus," "the
Said-Horus," "the Nubia-Horus." The tribes of the desert furnished him,
as was customary, with recruits for his army, for which he had need
enough, for the Bedouin of the Sinaitic Peninsula were on the move, and
were even becoming dangerous. Papi, aided by Uni, his prime minister,
undertook against them a series of campaigns, in which he reduced them
to a state of helplessness, and extended the sovereignty of Egypt for
the time over regions hitherto unconquered.

Uni began his career under Teti.* At first a simple page in the
palace,** he succeeded in obtaining a post in the administration of the
treasury, and afterwards that of inspector of the woods of the royal
domain.***

* The beginning of the first line is wanting, and I have
restored it from other inscriptions of the same kind: "I
was born under Unas." Uni could not have been born before
Unas; the first office that he filled under Teti III. was
while he was a child or youth, while the reign of Unas
lasted thirty years.

** Literally, "crown-bearer." This was a title applied
probably to children who served the king in his private
apartments, and who wore crowns of natural flowers on their
heads: the crown was doubtless of the same form as those
which we see upon the brows of women on several tombs of the
Memphite epoch.

*** The word "Khoniti" probably indicates lands with
plantations of palms or acacias, the thinly wooded forests
of Egypt, and also of the vines which belonged to the
personal domai