his
residence at Thebes, as his father had done before him, continued to
sacrifice to the Theban divinities, and to follow the ancient paths and
the conventional practices.***

* The filiation of Amenothes IV. and Tii has given rise to
more than one controversy. The Egyptian texts do not define
it explicitly, and the title borne by Tii has been
considered by some to prove that Amenothes IV. was her son,
and by others that she was the mother of Queen Nofrititi.
The Tel el-Amarna correspondence solves the question,
however, as it gives a letter from Dushratta to Khuniaton,
in which Tii is called "thy mother."

** Nofrititi, the wife of Amenothes IV., like all the
princesses of that time, has been supposed to be of Syrian
origin, and to have changed her name on her arrival in
Egypt. The place which she holds beside her husband is the
same as that which belongs to legitimate queens, like
Nofritari, Ahmosis, and Hatshopsitu, and the example of
these princesses is enough to show us what was her real
position; she was most probably a daughter of one of the
princesses of the solar blood, perhaps of one of the sisters
of Amenothes III., and Amenothes IV. married her so as to
obtain through her the rights which were wanting to him
through his mother Tii.

*** The tomb of Ramses, governor of Thebes and priest of
Mait, shows us in one part of it the king, still faithful to
his name of Amenothes, paying homage to the god Amon, lord
of Karnak, while everywhere else the worship of Atonu
predominates. The cartouches on the tomb of Pari, read by
Bouriant Akhopiruri, and by Scheil more correctly
Nofirkhopiruri, seem to me to represent a transitional form
of the protocol of Amenothes IV., and not the name of a new
Pharaoh; the inscription in which they are to be found bears
the date of his third year.

He either built a temple to the Theban god, or enlarged the one which
his father had constructed at Karnak, and even opened new quarries at
Syene and Silsileh for providing granite and sandstone for the adornment
of this monument. His devotion to the invincible Disk, however, soon
began to assert itself, and rendered more and more irksome to him the
religious observances which he had constrained himself to follow. There
was nothing and no one to hinder him from giving free course to his