8. “User-ka-ef, beloved of the Gods and beloved of Hather.” B.M. 16774.
9. “Nefer-ar-ka-ra, beloved of the Gods daily, and priest of Hather.” W. S.B. XVI, 331.
10. “The Royal Favourite who executed the orders of his Lord the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Pepŷ (I), beloved of Anhur.” The inscription also gives the Horus-name of Pepŷ: Merŷ tauï, and states that the official for whom this cylinder was cut was “chief over the secret things of the court,” and that “he made the favours of the court.” B.M. 29061.
11. “The King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Merŷ-tauï (Pepŷ I), the Good God, and Lord of the Two Lands,” with the Horus-name of Merŷ-tauï. In the horizontal line at the bottom of the seal the king is said to be “beloved of Sak, Lord of the Two Rats (?).” Like the specimen No. 10, this is a seal of the “Royal Favourite, the Regulator of the Festivals, he who executed the orders and made the favours of the king,” his master. B.M. 5495
PLATE VI.
CYLINDER-SEALS OF THE TWELFTH DYNASTY.
1. A steatite cylinder-seal, giving the prenomens of the six consecutive kings of the Twelfth Dynasty:—
(1) Sehetep-ab-ra (Amenemhat I).
(2) Kheper-ka-ra (Usertsen I).
(3) Nub-kau-ra (Amenemhat II).