about midday
His holiness saluted the army and went to the bathing chambers , where he took a bath filled with perfumes . Then he gave permission to arrange his divine hair ; but when the barber asked most submissively if the pharaoh commanded to shave his head and beard , the lord replied , -- `` There is no need . I am not a priest , but a warrior . '' These words reached the audience-hall a moment later ; in an hour they had gone around the palace ; about midday they had passed through every part of the city of Memphis , and toward evening they were known in all the temples of the state , from Tami-n-hor and Sabne-Chetam on the north to Sunnu and Pilak on the south . At this intelligence the nomarchs , the nobility , the army , the people , and the foreigners were wild with delight , but the sacred order of priests mourned the more zealously the dead pharaoh . When his holiness emerged from the bath he put on a warrior 's short shirt with black and yellow stripes , and a yellow breast-piece ; on his feet sandals fastened with thongs , and on his head a low helmet with a circlet . Then he girded on that Assyrian sword which he had worn at the battle of the Soda Lakes , and , surrounded by a great suite of generals , he entered with a clatter and clinking the audience-hall .