[107] He crossed over to the east bank and went northward, the cities on his road throwing open their gates to him. With the exception of the last, Per-nebt-tep-ah [Aphroditopolis], the modern Atfih opposite Medum, they are difficult to identify positively. [108] _I. e._, Heracleopolis Magna, a very powerful city on the edge of the western desert, left in the rear on Tafnekht's expedition up the river. Its king was named Pefaui Bast. Its modern name is Ahnas. [109] _Lit._, "he hath made himself into a tail-in-the-mouth." [!] [110] The precise extent of Piankhy's dominion at this time is uncertain. [111] Hur, opposite Beni Hasan. [112] The notion intended to be conveyed is that of a dog at heel. [113] Oxyrhynkhos itself was already in the hands of Tafnekht; the Hermopolite nome, including Hur, Nefrus, etc., lay immediately south of it. [114] The pronoun "he" is used much too freely in this inscription: occasionally it is impossible to decide to whom it refers. [115] Hermopolis. [116] Libyans, mercenaries or otherwise. The XXIId Dynasty was probably Libyan, and as will be seen from subsequent notes, Libyan influence was still strong in the time of Piankhy. [117] This would seem to be a quotation taken from some address to an earlier king. Thothmes III., for instance, attributed his successes to Amen. [118] The great temple of Amen at Karnak. [119] Our equivalent term would be "sheet-anchor." [120] In Ethiopia. [121] The title "chief of the Me" seems to mean "captain of the Libyan troops." The list contains the names of princes of Lower Egypt only, with the exception of Nemart of Hermopolis Magna, in Upper Egypt. [122] The feather was a Libyan badge of rank. [123] Tafnekht is here given most of his principal titles, including the sacerdotal ones of high priest of Neith in Sais, and of Ptah in Memphis. With the rise of Sais, Neith had become the leading deity of Lower Egypt, ranking even above Ptah. The priests at Gebel Barkal doubtless took a special pride in the overthrow of the protege of Neith and Ptah by Piankhy, the worshiper of Amen. [124] Or "beaten sorely and grievously." [125] Here should be the numbers of the slain. [126] "Khmenu," "Unu," "Hare-city," are all names of Hermopolis Magna, the capital of Nemart's petty kingdom. [127] Evidently a torchlight procession from Karnak to Luxor (Southern Apt). [128] The return procession to Karnak. [129] The third month of the season of inundation. Of course a year would then have elapsed, since the date given in the first line of the inscription. [130] Oxyrhynkhos. [131] Tehneh(?)