Oh, who could find the right
prenomen and honouring name for such longing!
Old Marmaduke, for this formidable
prenomen was a kind of appellative to the race, brought with him, to that asylum of the persecuted an abundance of the good things of this life.
They could not find any inscriptions on the front of the statue, but they did find some on the back of it: "Features of a cartouche, revealing the
prenomen of Ramses".
These texts reward even the non-specialist with insights complementing the other visual material: With a little patience, one learns to recognize the hieroglyph--upraised arms bearing the image of the sun--for Hatshepsut's
prenomen Maatkare, which translates as "the proper manifestation of the sun's life force" (88).
Seated on a rectangular base rounded at the corners, his hands emerging from his enveloping cloak and crossed over his knees, holding a lettuce in his right hand, and wearing a short beard and double wig composed of striated strands radiating from the crown and echeloned rectangular curls in front, his face with broad nose, heavy-lidded eyes, and indented earlobes, the naos before him carved with the ram head of the god Amun-Ra surmounted by a uraeus and sun-disk, each side of the naos engraved with a standing divine figure, Mut on the right and Khonsu on the left, a line of inscription on the base of the naos, two columns of inscription on the black pillar, the
prenomen of Ramesses II on his right forearm.
Frith on graffiti: "On the right shoulder of the colossus is the
prenomen of Rameses II.
From centuries later, the New Kingdom is represented at Wadi el-Hol by the
prenomen of Tuthmosis III (WH35), the graffito of the Stable-master Pasaanuy (WH22), and most notably the formal epigraph (WH44) of the Second Prophet of Amun, Roma, almost certainly the famous later High Priest of Amun.
Such names as these or (perhaps most interestingly) "Patricio Velasquez," where the added Irish
prenomen is assimilated to the Spanish rather than remaining opposed to it, would be funny in any context (297; 244:191-92); they exemplify the breakdown of sense produced by the barflies' narrowed vision and played on by the oscillation between gigantic parody and demeaning pseudo-realism.
According to Cline, ten of the eleven fragments had Egyptian hieroglyphs or framing lines on both sides, giving the nomen and
prenomen of Amenhotep III.(2) An original length could not be estimated, as no more than three edges were preserved on any one fragment.