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Thanks FN for the graphics and for finding this online:

In the lower corner of the bas-relief in Deir el Bahari is depicted a landing place. From the right a "king's messenger" advances at the head of his soldiers; from the left a chief approaches. A line of water with fish swimming about serves to indicate that the place is on the coast. The chief is called "a chief of Punt P'-r'-hw" (Perehu or Paruah). On a tent is written: "Pitching the tent of the king's messenger and his army on the myrrh-terraces of Punt on the side of the sea." Since it is placed on the extreme lower part of the mural, a position of minor importance, this picture probably shows the preliminary expedition or the arrival of the herald of the queen.

Paruah must have been Solomon's representative in the land of Edom, possibly an Edomite vassal of his.

Among the twelve governors of King Solomon at a later period in his reign (when some of these officials were his sons-in-law) one was a son of Paruah (I Kings 4:17). Jehoshaphat, the son of Paruah, was governor in Ezion-Geber and Eloth; his father, apparently, administered the same region. ["Ages In Chaos", p 115]