d that he did not
occupy himself with affairs of state on his arrival. Next day, however,
he burnt incense before the mummy of his father, which was in the main
royal chamber, and informed Herhor that they might conduct the remains
to the tomb prepared for them.

But this ceremony was not performed immediately.

They conveyed the late pharaoh to the temple of Ramses, where it
remained a clay and a night. Then they bore the mummy with boundless
magnificence to the temple of Amon-Ra.

The details of the funeral ceremony were the same as in Memphis, though
incomparably grander.

The royal palaces on the right bank of the Nile were on the southern
end of the city, while the temple of Amon-Ra was in the northern part
of it. These were connected by a road unique in character. This was an
avenue two kilometers long, very broad, lined not only with immense
trees, but with two rows of sphinxes. Some of these with lions' bodies
had human heads, others had rams' heads. There were several hundreds of
these statues on the avenue, at both sides of which countless throngs
of people had assembled from Thebes and the surrounding region. Along
the middle of the avenue moved the funeral procession. Advancing to the
music of various regiments were detachments of female wailers, choruses
of singers, all the guilds of artisans and merchants, deputations from
some tens of provinces with their gods and banners, deputations from
more than ten nations which kept up relations with Egypt. And again
walkers' music and priestly choruses.

This time the mummy of the pharaoh advanced in a golden boat also, but
incomparably richer than that in Memphis. The car which bore it was
drawn by eight pair of white bulls; this car, two stories high, was
almost concealed under garlands, bouquets, ostrich plumes, and precious
woven stuffs. It was surrounded by a dense cloud of smoke from censers,
which produced the impression that Ramses XII was appearing to his
people in clouds like a divinity.

From the pylons of all Theban temples came thunder-like outbursts and
with them loud and rapid sounds from the clashing of bronze disks.

Though the avenue of sphinxes was free and wide, though the procession
took place under the direction of Egyptian generals, and therefore with
the greatest order, the procession spent three hours in passing those
two kilometers between the palace and the edifices of Amon.

Only when the mummy of Ramses XII was borne into the t