ABSTRACT
Buiuua, who must have flourished towards the end of the XXth or the beginning of the XXlst Dynasty; his son was called
Mauuasan, ) } his grandson Nebensha,
his great-grandson Pa-thut,
his great-great-grandson Shashanq,
and his great-gre at-great-grandson,
Namareth, all these men bore
the title so» iia, i.e. " great chief," which shows that they were the head of the tribe to which they belonged, and probably also that their tribe was the dominant one in the country . Shashanq, the greatgreat-grandson of Buiu-uaua, married a lady called
Mehtet-en-usekht, who had the
title of " Neter tuat en Amen," i.e., "morning star of Amen," ~ and as she belonged to the royal family of Egypt he obtained by his marriage
with her a claim to the throne. Their son Namareth married the" divine lady" Thent-sepeh, ~ -- H ~ I
• C> 0 R~ and the claim of Buiu-uaua's descendants to the throne was further strengthened. Namareth, having married the Egyptian lady 'I'hent-sepeh, seems to have settled down in Egypt, and he was at all events buried at Abydos, and certain endowments were provided for the maintenance of his tomb and the performance of the sacrifices and the celebration of festivals at certain seasons in his honour. According to the late Dr. Brugsch the mother of Namareth, Mehtet-en-usekht, was a daughter of one of the last of the kings called Rameses, and she may well have been so, but there is no evidence forthcoming in support of his statement that Namareth was associated with his father Shashanq in the rule of Egypt, and it is wholly wrong to call him "the great king of Assyria." 1 He may have advanced into Egypt with the view of conquering the country and have been overtaken by death at Abydos, but there is no evidence that he did so to help the Ramessids.
