[110]. See Erman, Life in Ancient Egypt (Eng. tr.), p. 439.
[111]. See Erman, Life in Ancient Egypt (Eng. tr.), pp. 102, 103.
[112]. Thus ‘Captain’ Ahmes had land given him according to his biographical inscription, ll. 22, 24; see Brugsch, Egypt under the Pharaohs (Eng. tr.), second edit. i. p. 249.
[113]. See Virey in Records of the Past, new ser., iii. pp. 7 sqq. There were similar public granaries in Babylonia called sutummi, under the charge of an officer who bore the title of satammu, and the institution was probably introduced into Egypt from Asia.
[114]. Erman, Life in Ancient Egypt (Eng. tr.), p. 108.
[115]. See Brugsch’s translation of the inscription in his Die biblischen sieben Jahre der Hungersnoth (1891).
[116]. See Brugsch, Egypt under the Pharaohs (Eng. tr.), 2nd edit., i. pp. 262, 263. ‘Captain’ Ahmes, who took part in the War of Independence under Ahmes I., calls himself the son of Abana, and traces his descent to his ‘forefather Baba.’ In Abana, Maspero (The Struggle of the Nations, p. 85) sees the Semitic Abîna, ‘Our father.’
[117]. Thus in the Tel el-Amarna tablets, Rib-Hadad, the governor of Phœnicia, asks the Pharaoh to send corn to Gebal, as the crops there had failed (Winckler and Abel, No. 48, ll. 8-19), and Meneptah sent corn to the Hittites when they suffered from a famine (Brugsch, Egypt under the Pharaohs, Eng. tr., 2nd edit., ii. p. 119).
[118]. According to Abulfarag (Chron. p. 14), Joseph became Vizier in the seventeenth year of the reign of Apopi. Maspero (Struggle of the Nations, pp. 59, 107) makes Apopi Ra-aa-kenen the third of the name.
[119]. See Maspero’s translation in Records of the Past, new ser., ii. pp. 37 sq.