ain 88-1/2 _heqet_
measures, which were equal to 8592-1/2 _teben_.[2] It was offered to the
god for the life, strength, and health of Maatkara, the ever living. I
received the _sennu_ offerings which were made to Amen-Ra, Lord of the
Apts; these things, all of them, took place in very truth, and I
exaggerate not. I was vigilant, and my heart was perfect in respect of
my lord, for I wish to rest in peace in the mountain of the
spirit-bodies who are in the Other World (Khert-Neter). I wish my memory
to be perpetuated on the earth. I wish my soul to live before the Lord
of Eternity. I wish that the doorkeepers of the gates of the Tuat (Other
World) may not repulse my soul, and that it may come forth at the call
of him that shall lay offerings in my tomb, that it may have bread in
abundance and ale in full measure, and that it may drink of the water
from the source of the river. I would go in and come out like the
Spirits who do what the gods wish, that my name may be held in good
repute by the people who shall come in after years, and that they may
praise me at the two seasons (morning and evening) when they praise the
god of my city.

[Footnote 1: The temples of Karnak and Luxor.]

[Footnote 2: The _teben_ = 90.959 grammes.]

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THAIEMHETEP,
THE DAUGHTER OF HERANKH

This remarkable inscription is found on a stele which is preserved in
the British Museum (No. 1027), and which was made in the ninth year of
King Ptolemy Philopator Philadelphus (71 B.C.). The text opens with a
prayer to all the great gods of Memphis for funerary offerings, and
after a brief address to her husband's colleagues, Thaiemhetep describes
in detail the principal incidents of her life, and gives the dates of
her birth, death, &c., which are rarely found on the funerary stelae of
the older period. Thaiemhetep was an important member of the semi-royal,
great high-priestly family of Memphis, and her funerary inscription
throws much light on the theology of the Ptolemaic Period.

[Illustration: The Autobiography of Thaiemhetep, the daughter of
Herankh.]

1. SUTEN-TA-HETEP,[1] may Seker-Osiris, at the head of the House of the
KA of Seker, the great god in Raqet; and Hap-Asar (Serapis), at the head
of Amentet, the king of the gods, King of Eternity and Governor of
everlastingness; and Isis, the great Lady, the mother of the god, the
eye of Ra, the Lady of heaven, the mistress of all the