Horus name.[*]

* For the Horus name of the Pharaohs, see vol. ii., pp. 23-
25.

It was on this spot, upon an altar placed between the two stelae, that
the commemorative ceremonies were celebrated, and the provisions renewed
on certain days fixed by the religious law. Groups of private tombs
were scattered around,--the resting-places of the chief officers of the
sovereign, the departed Pharaoh being thus surrounded in death by
the same courtiers as those who had attended him during his earthly
existence.

The princes, whose names and titles have been revealed to us by the
inscriptions on these tombs, have not by any means been all classified
as yet, the prevailing custom at that period having been to designate
them by their Horus names, but rarely by their proper names, which
latter is the only one which figures in the official lists which we
possess of the Egyptian kings. A few texts, more explicit than the rest,
enable us to identify three of them with the Usaphais, the Miebis, and
the Semempses of Manetho--the fifth, sixth, and seventh kings of
the Ist dynasty.[*] The fact that they are buried in the necropolis of
Abydos apparently justifies the opinion of the Egyptian chroniclers that
they were natives of Thinis. Is the Menes who usually figures at their
head[**] also a Thinite prince?

* The credit is due to Sethe of having attributed their
ordinary names to several of the kings of the Ist dynasty
with Horus names only which were found by Amelineau, and
these identifications have been accepted by all
Egyptologists. Petrie discovered quite recently on some
fragments of vases the Horus names of these same princes,
together with their ordinary names. The Usaphais, the
Miebis, and the Semempses of Manetho are now satisfactorily
identified with three of the Pharaohs discovered by
Amelineau and by Petrie.

** In the time of Seti I. and Ramses II. he heads the list
of the Table of Abydos. Under Ramses II. his statue was
carried in procession, preceding all the other royal
statues. Finally, the "Royal Papyrus" of Turin,
written in the time of Ramses I., begins the entire series
of the human Pharaohs with his name.

Several scholars believe that his ordinary name, Mini, is to be read on
an ivory tablet engraved for a sovereign whose Horus name--Ahauiti, the
warlike--is known to us from several documents, and whos