=148=), dated in the 30th year of the reign of Ȧmenemḥāt II, comes from a royal building in Lower Egypt, and the seated figure of Hathor (Bay 1, No. =149=), dedicated to the goddess by Seneferu, the overseer of the boats, from Ṣarâbît al-Khâdim, dates from the time of the opening of the new mines in the Peninsula of Sinai. The three dated stelae of =Ȧmenemḥāt= (13th year), =Seḥetepȧb= (19th year), and =Menu-Nefer= (29th year) are valuable examples of the funerary stelae of this reign (Bay 1, No. =150=; Bay 7, No. =151=; and Bay 5, No. =152=), and the stelae of =Seneferu= (Bay 3, No. =153=), and =Sen-ȧtef= (Bay 1, No. =154=). [Sidenote: B.C. 2366.] The reign of =Usertsen II= was long and prosperous, but uneventful. Active labour went on in the turquoise and gold mines, and the quarries at Elephantine were worked under the direction of Sa-Renput, the Governor of Nubia. Usertsen II built a pyramid tomb at Al-Lâhûn, of wonderful design and construction. It seems that he developed trade in the Red Sea, and took care to keep in check the tribes of the Eastern Desert. Classical writers call him “Sesostris” and describe him as a great conqueror and traveller, but up to the present the Egyptian monuments have not justified these assertions. Among the monuments of his reign may be mentioned the stele of =Sebek-ḥetep=, the boat-builder, and =Tchaa=, a palace official (Bay 9, No. =155=, and Bay 1, No. =156=), each of which is dated in the 6th year of Usertsen II, and the lower portion of a black granite figure of =Sa-Renput=, the “Great Chief in Ta-Kenset” (_i.e._, Nubia), the “great father of the King of the South, and the great one of the King of the North.” Sa-Renput held many high offices at Elephantine and was one of the greatest of the feudal chiefs of his time (Vestibule, No. =157=). [Sidenote: B.C. 2333.]