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12. Every festival on every day for ever

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Passing now to the period of the XIIth Dynasty, we find that lists of offerings similar to those on monuments of the Vth and VIth Dynasties are not unknown, and a good example of such is given in the tomb of Ȧmen-em-ḥāt at Beni Hasan. Here on one of the walls is a picture of the deceased seated, with tables and stands loaded with offerings before him, and in the upper registers is a tabulated list containing the names of one hundred and twenty-one offerings.^[2] This may for convenience’ sake be called the Great List of Offerings. Elsewhere are given three copies of a list containing the names of twenty-two offerings;^[3] this may be called the Little List of Offerings. A Great List, containing the names of fifty-four offerings, and a Little List, containing the names of twenty-two, are also found in the tomb of Khnemu-ḥetep.^[4] The list of the festivals given in the latter tomb is long, and contains the following:—

1. Festival of the New Year,

2. Festival of Thoth,

G191

3. Festival of Pert Menu,

4. Festivals of Pati, 12 in number,

Z4A

1. Brugsch, Kalendarische Inschriften, p. 235.
2. Griffith and Newberry, Beni Hasan, pt. i., pl. xvii.
3. Ibid., pll. xviii., xix. and xx.
4. Ibid., pll. xxxv., xxxvi.