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Manners and Customs of the Egyptians: Egypt

The last part of this curious inscription in which the nomarch, referring to a famine that took place during the years of his administration, makes a panegyric in his own behalf, for having warded off the miseries of the dearth by his benevolent impartiality toward every one, has struck some observers as a pendant to the history of Joseph in Egypt and his seven famous years of famine in that country.

A mural scene on the same tomb recalls still more vividly the Biblical legend. It represents the arrival in Egypt of a family of the Semitic race of the Aam or Ammonites.