êt III, an official, also called Amenem
êt, was sent to the same place to obtain 10 statues of 5 cubits high. The personnel consisted of (BREASTED, A. R., I, 313):
| Necropolis soldiers | 20 |
| Sailors | 30 |
| Quarrymen | 30 |
| Troops | 2000 |
Under Ramesses IV, a large expedition was again sent to the Wady Hammâmât for monumental stone. It numbered 8362 persons. Breasted sums up the personnel as follows (A. R., III, 224):
| High Priest of Amûn, Ramesses-nakhl, Director | 1 |
| Civil and military officers of rank | 9 |
| Subordinate officers | 362 |
| Trained artificers and artists | 10 |
| Quarrymen and stone-cutters | 130 |
| Gendarmes | 50 |
| Slaves | 2000 |
| Infantry | 5000 |
| Men from Ayan | 800 |
| Dead (excluded from total) | 900 |
| 8362 |
From this it will be seen that larger parties than our estimate of 5725 were sent much further afield than Aswân, which itself was a garrison town. It seems to have been the custom to use troops on this unpleasant kind of fatigue, if captives or pressed gangs were not available in sufficient numbers.
The only record that we have on the transport of an obelisk is a passage from the Papyrus Anastasi I (GARDINER, Egyptian Hieratic Texts, Part I, p. 17*, § XIII), in which one scribe called
