The Personnel of the Middle Kingdom Funerary Stelae

Author(s): Ronald J. Leprohon

Source: Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Vol. 15 (1978), pp. 33-38
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 The Personnel of the Middle Kingdom
Funerary Stelae*
Ronald J. Leprohon

With their long lists of names, the Middle 1204 where the Overseer of Treasure
Kingdom stelae from Abydos have always Iykhernofret relates his part in the mys-
been an important source of genealogical teries of Abydos.5
information. However, apart from the The first stela to be considered will be
obvious family ties which can usually be
stela Berlin 1204.6 It is the most important
established on any given stela, there are
stela for our purpose as it is the only place
often additional names which cannot be where Iykhernofret gives the names of the
made to fit into the main family group,members
and of his immediate family.7 The
whose exact relationship with the familyname of Iykhernofret' s mother is here
group is difficult to establish. Whenwritten
these out fully, Sat-Khonsu; Iykhernofret's
father is, as far as I can ascertain, still un-
names are accompanied by titles, however,
known. Iykhernofret also gives the names
it will be found that a relationship between
the two groups can in fact be established,
of his two brothers, Sasetyt and the Deputy
and that this relationship is often ofone
the Overseer of Treasure Ameny: per-
between working colleagues.1 haps Ameny was a younger brother who
This thesis can be demonstrated through
served as his brother's apprentice. In addi-
an investigation of Simpson's ANOC tion,groupIykhernofret gives the names of his
no. 1, the various stelae belonging to the
two sons, Iykhernofret and Sasetyt.8
families and acquaintances of the OverseerApart from his immediate family, Iykher-
nofret also lists a man named Minhotpe
of Treasure Iykhernofret and of the Cham-
berlain Sasetyt.2 The reason for examining
whose title is hry- nimy-r sdruo, with no family
an ANOC group as opposed to individual relationship and no filiation accompanying
stelae is obvious: only with such a group of
his name. The most likely explanation for
stelae can whole families, including the ex-
Minhotpe's appearance on this family stela,
tended families, be collected, and only then,
thus is that as a subordinate of Iykhernofret,
are we able to differentiate properly onebe-
who worked closely with him in the
tween family and non-family members course of every day affairs, Minhotpe was
among the various names.3 The reasons for in his superior's stela as a personal
included
favor.
investigating this particular group ANOC 1
are twofold: not only does the group com- In the case of Minhotpe and Iykernofret,
prise the largest number of inscribed we ob-
are fortunate to possess another stela
jects connected with one chapel,4 but
which
in explains the relationship between
the for
addition we possess a biographical text two men. The lunate of stela BM 2029
the main individual of ANOC 1, stela Berlin
contains a htp-di-nsw formula dedicated to
33

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 34 JARCE XV (1978)

rest of the inscription

the Overseer of Treasure Iykhernofretconsists of various
son
of Sat-Khonsu. In the
nameslower portion
and titles of ofwith
persons connected the
stela, however, theIykhernofret,
namesbut mentioned are
not through family ties.
Cairo stela 203
not that of Iykhernofret's 1013 first mentions
family, but therather
that of Minhotpe's, including
Treasurer his
of the King of Lowermother
Egypt, the
Aset (Isis) and his father Snefru.
Overseer of Treasure Another
Iykhernofret born of
name which is mentioned Khonsu, short
isfora Sat-Khonsu.
certain Three offer-
Khep-
erkare son of Aset, ing-bearers presumably stand before Iykhernofret
Minhotpe's and
brother.10 they are labelled as the imy-rw Ptah son of
The explanation for the stela being dedi- Sobek-sa, the i[ry]-H Ameny son of Hedjeret,
cated to Iykernofret while containing the and the fay-c n imy-r sdiW Iby . 14
names of Minhotpe's family is given in a The relationship between Iykhernofret
vertical text written down the middle of and these three officials seems once again
the stela: rh nswt mrfMn-htp dd in it(i) rpcto be the relationship between a superior
smr
andmhis subordinates; two of these, the
wHy imy -r sdiw *Iy -hr-nfrt mc-hrw wd irt n(i) cb?pn
Petty Official and the Assistant of the
mfttf nt mf-hrw, "The king's acquaintance,
his beloved, Minhotpe, says: it wasOverseer
my of Treasure would presumably be
minor officials who came in contact with
father, the hereditary prince, the sole com-
panion, the Overseer of Treasure Iykher-
the higher Treasury official Iykhernofret
nofret, true of voice, who ordered the in
mak-
the course of every day affairs.
Another stela, CCG 20683,15 begins with
ing of this stela for me in his tomb-chapel
of vindication." an invocation to passers-by for the Over-
seer of Treasure Iykhernofret son of Sat-
At first there seems to be a problem with
Minhotpe having two fathers, Snefru andKhonsu; this is followed by a fup-di-nsw
Iykernofret, both labelled "father"(/7)formula
on dedicated to the Overseer of all
the stela. However, if we group the two royal works and Overseer of the Gate Inpl.
stelae BM 202 and Berlin 1204 together, As with the previous stela, Iykhernofret is
the solution is immediately apparent: ashere
a associating himself with a working
personal favor, Minhotpe was permitted colleague. As a treasury official he was
to set up his own family's commemorativepresumably responsible for some of the
resources which men connected with the
stela in his superior Iykernofret's tomb-
royal works would use;16 another explana-
chapel,11 this, after Minhotpe had already
been included in Iykhernofret's personaltion for Iykhernofret's association with Inpi
family stela. These acts of generosity could be, as Schafer suggested, that Inpi
merited Iykhernofret the appellation of done some of the work commissioned
had
"father" on Minhotpe's stela, the word
by Iykhernofret while at Abydos.17
The next stela, CCG 20038,18 again
father taken in its broader sense of "pro-
repeats the same pattern, with various
tector", "patron", or as Schafer had sug-
officials named on a stela dedicated to the
gested, "adoptive father".12 Thus, while
Iykhernofret was Minhotpe's protector, Overseer of Treasure Iykhernofret. The
the latter's real father was Snefru. officials include a Storehouse Overseer
Iykhernofret did not confine his generos- (imy-r st), a prophet (hm-ntr) and a butler
ity and piety to his assistant Minhotpe.(wdpw).19 It is not always easy to define the
Indeed, four other stelae repeat the pat- exact relationship between the various
tern met in stela BM 202: all are dedicated characters on a stela,20 but it is probably
safe to assume that an Overseer of the
to Iykhernofret through the use of a htp-di-
Storehouse21 and a butler were minor offi-
nsw formula addressed to him, while the

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 THE PERSONNEL OF THE MIDDLE KINGDOM FUNERARY STELAE 35

cials which a high Treasury official quite

came in conceivable that Iykhern
contact with in the course of every
opedday
close ties with some of t
business.22 and as a personal favour, thes
included on
With the occurrence of the title hm-ntr, a a stela dedicated to him.
more ecclesiastical title, we enter into a The ANOC group no. 1 contains three
new kind of relationship which Iykhernofret more stelae where we can follow an inter-
developed, that with the priesthoods at esting development of what has been dis-
Abydos. Indeed it is quite likely, though cussed above.
Iykhernofret does not specifically say so, Stela Louvre C 3327 is a stela dedicated
that he "... made a contract of payments to the Petty Official of Pharaoh Pepy son of
with the prophets . . . who are in the temple Henni, where he records the names of the
of Osiris ... in Abydos . . .", to quote a members of his family, along with a number
number of other stelae.23 It is then tempt- of individuals whose relationship to Pepy's
ing to think that the hm-ntr Mery was in- family is difficult to establish. This Petty
cluded on Iykhernofret's stela as a personal Official Pepy must of course be the same as
favour, because of the special working the one mentioned in stela CCG 20140
relationship between the two men, the two where his mother's name was abbreviated
having met at Abydos. to#
This arrangement is even more apparent Out of all the names recorded in Louvre
on another stela, CCG 20140.24 After the C 33, one group in particular will interest
htp-di-nsw formula dedicated to the Trea- us, the family of the iry-H wnwty Qemau,
surer of the King of Lower Egypt and Over- who must be the same met in CCG 20140.
seer of Treasure Iykhernofret, we read the His mother's name is here given as Set-
names and titles of two Petty Officials of ankhi,28 and his father, a Petty Official of
Pharaoh (iry-H n Pr-%25 Pepy and Ab-ib, the Pharaoh, is named Senbef. Thus the appear-
two men shown presenting offerings to ance of Qemau on Pepy's stela must reveal
Iykhernofret. the same working relationship seen earlier
Of the three men shown seated in the on stela CCG 20140, where both men were
shown to be working acquaintances of
lower register of the stela, two in particular
will interest us: the official in charge of the
Iykhernofret. It is also tempting to think
that the professional relationship is not only
hourly-priests [iry-H wnwty) Sa-khent-kheti
son of Sat-metnu, and the hourly priest
between Pepy and Qemau but also between
Pepy and Qemau's father Senbef, since
(wnwty) Qemau son of Sat-ankhu. In addi-
tion, the name and filiation of a second iry-H
both men bore the same title of iry-H n Pr-%
wnwty, Khent-khety son of Sat-Sobek, and was quite possibly were attached to the
added in the lunate of the stela, with same
the office.
words crammed in on either side of the Two other stelae, Geneva D 5029 and
udjat-eyes, almost as an afterthought. Louvre C 5,30 the well known stelae of the
The relationship between these men and
chamberlain Sasetyt,31 can also be consider-
ed here. The link between Geneva D 50
Iykhernofret can once again be explained
as that between working colleagues, the stelae previously discussed is given in
as can
be demonstrated by a passage from stela four lines of the stela where Saystyt
the last
Berlin 1204, where Iykhernofret states states
thatthat he ". . . went to Abydos together
he ". . . caused the hourly-priestswith of thethe Overseer of Treasure Iykhernofret
temples [to know] how to do their du-to fashion (a statue of) Osiris
in order

ties This mention of Iykhernofre

with these priests while at Abydos,
dedicated solely it to isthe members

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 36 JARCE XV (1978)

family is noteworthythe priests as it who

and those demonstrates
wished to partic-
either the high esteem
ipate in the with which Iykher
Osirian rituals?
nofret was regarded, Butorin thesimply
end, must we be an so harsh? If
unusually
close relationship between the
we let the inscriptions speaktwo men.
for themselves,
Another fact which we find out that the officials wished
emerges from first the
relationship between the two men
and foremost to be in close proximity is their
to
mutual acquaintance the godwithOsiris and the
to receive ubiquitou
offerings in
hourly-priest Qemau his presence.
son For ofthis, all that was needed
Sat-ankhi. In-
deed, the latter is was
attested on stela
a mere representation Louvre
at Abydos by
havingmembers
C 5 among the various one's name recorded
of on a stela
Sasetyt's
family and dependents.
engraved with This
the properpresumably
formulas.38 The
shows that Qemauadequacy
had of worked closely
this simple presence of one'sno
name at Abydos
only with Iykhernofret but is nowherehis
with more associat
apparent
Sasetyt as well. than in stela BM 101 where the official
Of course, to explain why
Nebipu-Senwosret doesan official
not even hide the
included business fact
acquaintances32 on
that he never actually made the hi
trip
family stela is a more difficult
to Abydos to set up histask. Did
stela;39 the one
mere
ask various acquaintances whether
fact that he had arranged they
for a commemo-
desired some space
rativeon one's
stela to be set up own
at Abydosvotive
assured
stela and thus helphim a full participation
defray the cost in the ritual.
of An-
such
a stela? This mightother beexample
theofcase with
this is stela BM 574Louvr
where
C 19 where three assistant treasurers share Khenty-em-semyt states that he dropped
a stela,33 or a New Kingdom example, Tou- off his stela at Abydos on his way back from
louse 1175, where two men who met at an inspection tour in Upper Egypt.40 These
Abydos share a stela.34 men fully expected that although they
In the case of craftsmen who are included themselves had never participated in the
on a family stela without seemingly belong- Osirian festival, the mere fact of having
ing to the actual family, can we perhaps their names recorded near that great god
surmise that these craftsmen were included assured them a spiritual participation in his
because of the work they had done on the sacred rites.
stela? Would a craftsman perhaps lower hisGiven this, must we then be surprised
fee if he was permitted to carve his own to find individuals include friends and col-
name on the stela? This seems to be the leagues on their own commemorative stela?
case with stela Philadelphia E. 1601235 Canand we not simply assign this act of gene-
the stela of a carpenter named Horemsaf rosity to simple piety, the real desire of a
in the Meermano Museum,36 where in truly both devout people to see close friends
cases an outline-draughtsman (sskdwt) share inex- in one of the most important reli-
plicably appears on a family stela. The gious
same acts of their time,41 to have one's
can be said for stela Brooklyn no. 37.1347 name E endure in that most sacred of places,
the Terrace of the Great God Osiris at
where a sculptor (gnwty) has crudely scratch-
ed his name on the bottom half of another
Abydos?
man's stela.37
University of Toronto
In the case of the hourly-priests and the
prophets seen previously, could they pos- * Parts of this paper were originally read at the
sibly have been included on an individual'sannual meeting of the American Research Center
stela as part of the contracts made betweenin Egypt in New York, April 1978.

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 THE PERSONNEL OF THE MIDDLE KINGDOM FUNERARY STELAE 37

1 This is the question W. K. Simpson stelae were not all put in at the same time; if th
addressed
himself to in The Terrace of the Great Godstelae had been set up at the same time, one woul
at Abydos.
(New Haven; 1974) (henceforth to be referred to
expect uniformity in the spelling as the sculptor
as Simpson, Terrace), 4, n. 6, when he would asked: "In
presumably have been working from one
the case of chapels erected by more than single master list. For a description of the settin
one indi-
vidual, are the individuals connected by up family
of a tomb-chapel and its various stelae, see
Simpson,rela-
relationship only, or are there other possible Terrace, 14-15. Another confirmation that
these commemorative
tionships such as guild, corporate, professional, and stelae were not all set up at
religious?" On this question see also Yoyotte, Les might come from ANOC 26, Simpson,
the same time
Terrace, 19,
Pelerinages dans VEgypte ancienne [Sources Orientates, pl. 39. In this case, stelae BM 247 (= HT
III.
1960), 38; Vernus, Rev. d'Eg. 22 (1970), 160,111:25) and CCG 20558 record only three of
notes
3,4. Senwosret-senbu's daughters, while BM 557 (= HT
2 Simpson, Terrace, 17, 22-23. The present 11:3) records the names of four daughters. This
author
tends to agree with Berlev, Bibliothecawould tend to indicate that BM 557 was set up
Orientalis
XXXIII, no. 5/6 (1976), 325, that CCG 20435 does
after the first two stelae, perhaps on a later visit to
not belong to ANOC 1; the Qemau mentioned Abydos whenin a fourth daughter had been born to
CCG 20435 is not the Qemau of Louvre C 5, Senwosret-senbu.
Louvre C 33 and CCG 20140. For the chrono- 12 Schafer, Die Mysterien, 39.
logical problems connected with some of Langethe ANOC
and Schafer, Grab- und Denksteine des mittle-
1 stelae, see Simpson's remarks, Chron. d'Eg. 47
ren Reiches im Museum von Kairo, I (CCG vol. 5; Cairo,
(1972), 52-53. 1902), pp. 322-323; Simpson, Terrace, pl. 2.
I would even venture to suggest that1 when
A number a of names also appear on the stela,
given stela contains only the names of individuals
most of which give the same name for the mother,
Sobekemsaes.
which are not related by family ties, what we then It is difficult to establish the exact
relationship
have is only the one stela out of a grouping of stelae between the first group of offering-
(i.e. an ANOC group), where the family wouldand
bearers havethe second group, the sons and daugh-
been mentioned on some of the other stelae which ters of the woman Sobekemsaes. I would however
comprised the ANOC group. venture to suggest that the first-named offering-
4 Simpson, Terrace, 22. bearer, the District Overseer Ptah son of Sobek-sa,
For which see H. Schafer, Die Mysterien des Osiris
is simply an abbreviation for one of the three broth-
(Untersuchungen IV, 2. Leipzig, 1904). ers, all of whom include Ptah as one of the com-
pounds
6 Aegyptische Inschriften Berlin, I (Leipzig, 1913), 169- in their names. As for the mother, Sobek-sa,
75; Simpson, Terrace, pl. 1 . this would again be an abbreviation for the name
7 Aeg.Insch. Berlin, I, 175. Sobekemsaes. Thus, what we have here is an ar-
8 It should be pointed out that the tworangement
men whereby one of Iykhernofret's depend-
named Sasetyt in this stela, Iykhernofret's brotherents, the District Overseer Ptah, after being listed
and son, should not be confused with the Sasetyt and shown as an offering-bearer in the main group,
of stelae Geneva D 50 and Louvre C 5; the latter's also lists his whole family on another portion of the
mother and father are known and are different from stela.
the names met in Berlin 1204. 15 Lange and Schafer, op.cit, II (CCG vol. 36;
9 Hieroglyphic Texts from Egyptian Stelae etc. inCairo,
the 1908), 310-11; Simpson, Terrace, p\. 2.
British Museum (henceforth to be referred to as HT), See for example Goyon, Les Nouvelles Inscriptions
III (London, 1912), pl. 11; Simpson, Terrace, pl. 2.rupestres du Wadi Hammamat (Par is, 1957), inscr. no. 61,
lines 20-21; cf. 19, 20, 85, where the Treasury
10 Twenty three other figures are also represented
on the stela but only one is given a name, a certainsupplies the expedition members with tools and
Hor(?) born of Horem[sa]es. equipment. This stela CCG 20683 also mentions
Simpson, Terrace, 11. In connection with two thisother officials whose titles seem to read imy-r
practice of an official allowing his dependents to
c imy-r prw(?) n imy-r rwyt and imy-r c imy-r prw(?) n imy-r
add their family stelae to his own tomb-chapel, sdiw.
it is These titles are obscure and I am uncertain
interesting to note that the spelling of the name of the functions they represent: on these titles, see
Helck's remarks, Verwaltung, 86, n. 4. The Overseer
Iy-hr-nfrt is different on each of the stelae in which
the name occurs, thus: Berlin 1204, JfULJ^T;
of the Gate might have been included on the stela
BM 202, JUT; CCG 20310, j/ajoj; CCG because of his connection with Inpi, the other such
20683, JUisfT,; CCG 20038, j/a|7 ; CCG title-holder; as for the second official, he was pre-
20140, J/&|^". These different spellings of the
sumably included because of his connection with
name would seem to indicate that the various the Treasury.

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 38 JARCE XV (1978)
labelled
17 S chafer, Die Mysterien, p."working
40. acquaintances" or "colleagues" i
Lange and Schafer, op.cit, I, pp. 46-48; see this paper could be called "dependents". This could b
also Simpson, Terrace, pl. 2, where the writing of the case with stela CCG 20546 and BM 162 (=ANOC
Iykhernofret's name is clearly seen to be _J /a J "^ 2; cf. Simpson, Terrace, 15) where a imy-r snc and a imy
and not 5^1^ as Lange and Schafer stated, p. 47. sdit are designated as "servants" (b;k mfn stib'f) of & imy-
19 In addition, a certain Khen born of Meryt-Hor msc wr called Ameny. However, if, as Simpson himsel
is mentioned, but he is not given a title. proposes (ibid, 15), Ameny's title indicates a chie
20 Also represented on the stela are two women construction official rather than a military man, th
who might have been the wives or mothers of some relationship between the three men can once again b
of the officials, though they are not labelled so. construed as that between working colleagues. Hence
One suggestion might be that the Kmiw named as it is because a working relationship can often be de-
the mother of C?-Pth is a mistake for the name which monstrated that I prefer the term "colleague" t
appears as 'Iniw, with the crocodile-skin sign km "dependent", the latter term being harder to define.
(Gard. Sign List I 6) carved instead of the fish sign 33 Gayet, op.cit, pl. VII; cf. Simpson, Terrace, 4, n. 23.
in (Gard. Sign List K 1). What we would then have 34 A. Varille, KemiZ (1930), 39-43.
is the situation we met in CCG 20310 (see supra, 35 Miller, JEA 23 (1937), pl. III.
note 14) where an official, in this case the imy-r st Spiegelberg, Die d'gyptische Sammlung des Museum Meer-
\'-Pth, is first mentioned with the other officials, andmano (Strassburg, 1896), pl. I. See also Ward, JEA 63
is then attested once more along with his family. (1977), 63-66, pl. IX, for an instance where a ss kdw
21 For another example of a imy-r st included on has provided a stela for a friend of his.
the stela of a imy-r sdsw, see stela BM 252 (== HT 37 James, Corpus of Hieroglyphic Inscriptions in the Brookly
111:47). For an example where the title imy-r st isMuseum, I (Brooklyn, 1974), no. 133: 56-57, pl. 38; se
associated with the title wdpw, see Beni Hasan I, especially the remarks on p. 57 where James comes t
the same conclusion.
pl. 35, third register, in a procession of offering-
bearers. 38 See the examples collected by Simpson, Terrace,
10-13; see also Blackman's remarks,/^ 21 (1935), 6.
22 Unless of course the butler was simply a per-
sonal household servant of Iykhernofret; cf. Gar-39 See lines 7-9 where he states that the stela was
diner, AEO I, 43*. given to the lector-priest Ibi when the latter came to
23 For such contracts see M. Kamal, ASAE 38 the capital city with the priesthoods of Abydos; cf.
(1938), 269-70, 280; Gardiner, The Tomb ofAmenemhet Blackman, op.cit, 1-9, pl. I.
(Theban Tomb Series I. London, 1915), 9 Iff.; Simpson, 40 HT II: 9, lines 3-7 (= lines 13-17 of the stela).
Terrace, 5, n. 30. These two examples BM 101 and BM 574 also
show that one did not have to be deceased to
24 Lange and Schafer, op.cit, I, 165-66; Simpson,
Terrace, pl. 2. erect a stela at Abydos.
For the relationship between the iryst (n) Prs? and 41 Given the development in religious devotion in
the Treasury, cf. Helck, Verwaltung, 83. the later Middle Kingdom as demonstrated by
26 Line 1 3 = Aeg. Inschr. Berlin I, 1 73. Pfluger, JAOS 67 (1947), 133ff., one would almost
expect to see the practice of including colleagues
27 Gayet, Musee du Louvre. Steles de la Xlle dynastie. (Biblio-
theque de VEcole des Hautes Etudes; 68e fascicule. Paris, 1889),on one's own stela exclusively at the end of the
pl. LVIII; Simpson, Terrace, pl. 4. Twelfth dynasty but this is not so, there is no
28 The writing St-^nhz is simply a different spelling of "historical development" for this phenomenon in
the name seen previously as S;t-lnfyw; the change from the dynasty. A simple look at some of the dated
st- to Sit- is not uncommon in proper names. See Ranke ANOC groups reveals the same pattern early in the
PN I, 285:12, 287:15, 18; see also the examples indynasty. The group ANOC 6, for which see Simpson,
Lange and Schafer, op.cit, III, Index, 150ff. Terrace, 4, n. 23, is dated to the time of Amenemhat
G. Maspero, "Sur une stele du Musee de Geneve,"I and Senwosret I. ANOC 4, temp. Senwosret I,
contains stela Louvre C 167 where a imy-r pr Intef
Etudes de mythobgie et d'archeobgie egyptiennes, III (Paris,
1898), 211-15; Simpson, Terrace, pl. 4. includes two imy-r pr and a imy-r sd;t among other
30 Gayet, op.cit, pls. VIII, IX; Simpson, Terrace, pl. 3. officials listed; ANOC 4 also contains Louvre C 168
31 Although the four lines of biographical informationdaughters along with a number of officials including
given in stela Geneva D 50 are written about Sasetyt, a imy-r pr and a imy-r st, officials who do not seem to
be connected with Intef 's family. Again, ANOC 29,
the stela itself is in fact dedicated to Sasetyt's father,
temp. Senwosret I, includes stela CCG 20473
the Chamberlain of the Vizier's Office Ameny. If
Sasetyt is given choice ranking in the family, he iswhere a sd?w bity and imy-r pr named Hor lists not
nevertheless only described as Ameny's son (srfj. only his immediate family but also a sdiw, a imy-r sd^w
32 An objection could be raised that the individuals
and a imy-r pr, just to name a few of the titles attested
where Intef records the names of his sons and on the stela.

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