about four hours after midday
When the prince 's retinue entered the eastern desert , great hunts began with dogs and panthers against wild beasts . Of these they killed and seized , in the course of some days , a couple of hundred . When the worthy Sofra noticed that the prince had had enough of amusement in the open air and of company intents , he ceased hunting and brought his guest by the shortest road to Atribis . They arrived about four hours after midday , and the nomarch invited all to a feast in his palace . He conducted the prince to a bath , he assisted at the bathing , and brought out from his own chest perfumes wherewith to anoint Ramses . Then he oversaw the barber who arranged the viceroy 's hair ; next he kneeled down on the pavement and implored the prince to accept new robes from him . These were a newly woven tunic covered with embroidery , a skirt worked with pearls , and a mantle interwoven with gold very thickly , but so delicate that it could be held between a man 's ten fingers .