3. The Parents of Queen Thŷi and the Limits of the Egyptian Empire.
Many specimens are known of this historical scarab. In the Louvre there are two examples (Inv. 787); in the British Museum are three (4096, 16988, 29437, the latter specimen of fine blue-glazed steatite); in the Cairo Museum, one (3817, figured in Mariette’s Album de Boulaq, XXXVI, 541; Maspero, Struggles of the Nations, p. 315); in the Bologna Museum, one (2454); in the Edwards, Petrie, Fraser (Fr., Sc. X, 262), Nash, Hilton-Price (Cat. 283), Dattari and Myers’ Collections, one each; as well as several others in private hands. The example figured here is from the Amherst Collection. Birch (Records of the Past, XII, 39); Budge (Mummy, 242), and Fraser (Fr. Sc., X, 56), have published translations of the text.
| (a) Transliteration. | (b) Translation. |
|---|---|
| 1. Ankh Heru. (Here follow the full titles of Amenhetep III and his Queen Thŷi) | 1. “The Living Horus.” (Here follow the titles of Amenhetep III and his Queen Thŷi.) |
| 5. “ren en tef-es | 5. “The name of her father is |
| 6. Ŷuaa, ren en met-es Thuaa | 6. “Ŷuaa, the name of her mother is Thuaa; |
| 7. hemt pu ent seten nekht | 7. “she is the wife of the victorious king; |
| 8. tash ef res er Karŷ | 8. “his southern boundary is Karŷ,[[129]] |
| 9. mehti er Neha- | 9. “(and) his northern boundary is Meso- |
| 10. rina. | 10. “potamia.” |