Notes de prosopographie thébaine

Two Unpublished Bases of Statues at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo (Je. 37998, Je 37448) From Karnak Cachette

“…H. Sleim published a standing theophorous statue bears the same name in the Egyptian museum (JE 37353), now in the Alexandria national museum [7], the second is a standing statue (Cairo JE 38036) for a person named PA-XAr-xnsw, [29] and the third naophorous statue (JE 38016) dated to the 26 th dynasty [41]. H. de Meulenaere [42] gave the genealogy of a priesthood family of Amon-Re in Thebes, where he mentioned four persons of this family bear the name of PA-XArxnsw, Finely Jansen-Winkeln mentioned two statues in the same name, the first one is a block statue (JE 37864) from Thebes dates to the thirteen dynasty [43], the second one is an unpublished theophorous statue in London (BM 48038) dates to the Ptolemaic period from Thebes [43]. It can be assured that the previous examples do not belong to the same person, but it is possible that one of them is the owner of the statue base publishing herein.…”

The Libyan Period in Egypt: An Essay in Interpretation

“…Confirmation that some subjects were in practice no less powerful than the kings is provided by the Rassam cylinder, in which Assurbanipal simply lumps all the local governors, whatever their Egyptian title, together under the title of sarru, 'rulers'. These include at least one king, Necho I of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty, a Great Chief Shoshenq at Busiris and a governor Montuemhat at Thebes (Yoyotte 1971, 42 n.34) as well as a vizier at Abydos (De Meulenaere 1978;Leahy 1979). This brutally realistic approach complements Piye's punctilious observation of protocol to produce a brilliantly clear picture of the status of kingship.…”