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Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nd also atAbu Simbel (Lepsius, Denkm., iii. 196 a). ^ Anastasi Papyrus II., pi. ii. 11. 1-5, and Anastasi Papyrus IV., pi. vi. 11. 7-9. The connexionbetween this document and the visit of the year XXXIV. was pointed out by Maspebo, Du Genre€pistolaire, p. 102; cf. Chaeas, Mdunges ^gyptologiques, 2nd series, pp. 151, 152; Ekman, JEgyptenund JEgyptisches Leben, p. 707. COMMERCE WITH SYRIA. 407 The half-centviry following the conclusion of this alliance was a period ofworld-wide prosperity. Syria was once more able to Lreathe freely, her com-merce being under the combined protection of the two powers who sharedher territory. Not only caravans, but isolated travellers, were able to passthrough the country from north to south without incurring any risks beyondthose occasioned by an untrustworthy guide or a few highwaymen. It becamein time a common task in the schools of Thebes to describe the typical Syriantour of some soldier or functionary, and we still possess one of these imaginative
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PH(EN1CX\N BOATS LANDING AT THEBES. stories in which the scribe takes his hero from Qodshii across the Lebanon toByblos, Berytus, Tyre, and Sidon, the fish of which latter place are morenumerous than the grains of sand ; he then makes him cross Galilee and theforest of oaks to Jaffa, climb the mountains of the Dead Sea, and following themaritime route by Kapliia, reach Pelusium.- The Egyptian galleys throngedtlie Phoenician ports, while those of Phosnicia visited Egypt. The latter drewso little water that they had no difficulty in coming up the Nile,^ and the paint-ings in one of the tombs represent them at the moment of their reaching Thebes.The hull of these vessels was similar to that of the Nile boats, but the bow andstern were terminated by structures which rose at right angles, and respectivelygave support to a sort of small platform. Upon this the pilot maintained Drawn by Bniuiier, from the photograpli piiblialied by Daressy in tlie Revue Archdhlngique. This is the Auaslasi Pa

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