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Indeed, soon it may come to us all, if what I suspect is true. He does not know exactly why, but he is at work upon it. Today, however, we are concerned with today and although he conceals it cleverly, thinking I do not notice after my uninformative conversation at breakfast, I can see that he, too, is still worrying the fact that all is not well in the House of Thebes.
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I intend to be his friend on that day, as I am on this. And as the years spin out for the House of Thebes, he may. But they are there, if he ever needs them. The charm and innocence still predominate: the shrewd intelligence and carefully analytical mind, potentially ruthless, potentially hard, come now but cautiously and rarely to the surface. So I have become, and quite genuinely, too. I suspect it will be well for me to be his friend. Much that they never dream goes on behind the golden spectacle that awes and delights the people. I suspect he is here because someone sees him as a potential future actor in the game we all play in the Palace. I suspect he has sponsorship from somewhere very high. At first I resented this, was cautious, withholding then his natural charm won me over-and something else. He appeared suddenly from nowhere, suddenly was assigned, with no explanation to anyone, to work with me in the Palace of Malkata. Such is the advantage of the scribe, and such is the advantage I am arranging for my young friend Kaires, who bounces beside me like a puppy, yet beneath his outward innocence carries the weapon of an extremely intelligent mind becoming daily more shrewd and skilled in the ways of Kemet. Just now when he passed, I, who know him very well by now, saw behind the frozen smile and fixed, official aspect of his face something else, some trouble deeply hidden, deeply felt. This morning I saw the Good God for a second look profoundly worried, profoundly sad. This morning I saw the Priest Aanen, that creeping man, fling furiously away from his brother-in-law the Good God. Out of such displeasure, who knows what things may come for the land of Kemet?
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Pharaoh is displeased with Amon, and seeks a way to lessen his power. Presently it will become clear to me, though I suspect already what it is. Something moves within the House of Thebes. At least Amon says it will be a son, and who doubts Amon? Certainly not I. They love Pharaoh, as they love the Great Wife Tiye and today their love is about to find a new reward in another son to strengthen Pharaoh’s hand. The temper of the people is, as always, loyal, worshipful, awed, and adoring. I do not mind: it permits me to stand here, just outside the temple door, and gauge the temper of the people as they await the re-emergence of the God. Today he did not invite me, for today is perhaps too intimate a matter, involving the future of the House of Thebes itself. I know what they are, for I have been privileged to attend them many times since I entered the service of the Good God. Inside the temple, the mysteries proceed. The fragments in the Egypt Centre show 4 titles of Amenhotep: commander of the army overseer of the double granaries fan bearer on the right side governor. This shape is more usual of later Third Intermediate Period and Late Period sarcophagi than those of the New Kingdom. The lid is smoothly curved with a round head end and a contour that tapers from the shoulders to the flat foot end. The coffin of Amenhotep Son of Hapu is quite unusual. However, Merymose’ coffin is anthropoid (human shaped) with a head and feet. His coffin is now in The British Museum and originally was a nest of 3.
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The coffin is similar to that of Merymose, Amenophis III’s Viceroy of Nubia, in the style of panelling. Most 18 th Dynasty coffins are made of wood, but during the reign of Amenophis III there was an upsurge in the use of stone, particularly basalt and granite. Below you can see a diagram showing where you believe the Egypt Centre fragments fit in the whole. Other pieces of the sarcophagus are situated in museums throughout the world. After his death he was revered for his wisdom and from the Late Dynastic Period (747-332 BC) was worshipped as a god of medicine. He died in his 80s and was buried in a rock cut tomb in western Thebes. When he was 40 he moved to the Royal court at Thebes where he became famous as a scribe, quarter-master general and a royal architect. He was born in 1430 BC at Athribis in the Nile Delta. The Egypt Centre has on display two pieces of a stone sarcophagus (W1367) which belonged to Amenhotep Son of Hapu. Amenhotep, Son of Hapu – An Egyptian Saint