The reign of =Thothmes IV= was short and unimportant. He made one or more raids into Nubia, an expedition into Syria; and in the first year of his reign he set up a tablet between the paws of the =Sphinx= stating that the =god of the Sphinx=, Ḥerukhuti-Kheperȧ-Rā-Temu, appeared to him one day before he was king, and bade him remove the sand which had closed him in on all sides, and promised him that he should become king if he obeyed. Thothmes undertook the work, and in due course became king. His inscription mentions king =Khāf-Rā= (Chephren) in connexion with some work (probably a clearing of the sand) performed for the Sphinx. Among the monuments of his reign may be noted the =stele of Ȧmen-ḥetep=, an officer who accompanied the king into Western Asia and the Sûdân (Bay 11, No. =377=); and the stele of =Nefer-ḥāt=, overseer of the works in the Temple of Abydos (Bay 8, No. =378=). Thothmes IV married a lady named =Mut-em-uȧa=, who became the mother of Ȧmen-ḥetep III. The =granite boat= which was dedicated to the queen as the counterpart of the goddess Mut, is exhibited in the Northern Gallery (Bay 7, No. =379=). For a portion of the head of her seated figure from the boat see Bay 7, No. =380=. Some think that Mut-em-uȧa is to be identified with the daughter of Artatama, king of Mitani.[36] [Sidenote: B.C. 1450.] =Ȧmen-ḥetep III=, the =Memnon= of the Greeks, declared himself to be an incarnation of the god Ȧmen-Rā; he reigned about 36 years. In the fifth year of his reign he marched into the Sûdân and crushed a rebellion at Abhat, taking 750 prisoners. He subsequently travelled in many parts of that country, and built a magnificent temple there, near the modern village of Ṣulb (Soleb), which he dedicated to himself as the god of the Sûdân. He made many expeditions into Western Asia, and whilst there he enjoyed lion-hunting on a large scale; on the large =scarabs= exhibited in Table-case D (Fourth Egyptian Room) he states that he shot with his own hand one hundred and two fierce lions during the first ten years of his reign. His frequent visits to Western Asia enabled him to continue the friendly personal relations with the kings and rulers which his father inaugurated; and he married several of their daughters, _e.g._, a daughter of Kadashman-Bêl, king of Karaduniyash; a daughter of Shutarna, king of Mitani; and a daughter of Tushratta, king of Mitani. He also married a sister of Tushratta called Gilukhipa, who arrived in Egypt with three hundred and seventeen of her principal women. The greatest and best beloved of his wives, however, was =Thi=, who must also have been of foreign extraction. Judging by the appearance of the mummies of her father, Iuȧa and her mother Thuȧa, which have recently been found, it seems that the former was not an Egyptian, but a native of some part of the Eastern Desert or Southern Syria, while the latter was a native Egyptian woman. Their daughter Thi was a very remarkable woman in every