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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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f the reference is not to a goddess, who along withAmon took part in the ceremonies, but to Blutnozmit, we must come to the conclusion that she, asheir and queen by birth, must have ceded her rights by some ritual to her son before he could becrowued. = Turin Inscription, 11. l?.-20; cf. Brugsch, Geschichle Ji:iji/ptens, pp. 441-443. THF. FINAL TniUMPIl OF AMON AXD HIS PRIESTS. 345- insulted and proscribed by Khuniatonu, liad uot fully recovered liis prestigeunder the rule of the immediate successors of his enemy. They had restoredto him his privileges and his worship, they had become reconciled to him, andavowed themselves his faithful ones, but all this was as much an act of politicalnecessity as a matter of religion: tliey still continued to tolerate, if not tofavour, the rival doctrinal system, and the temple of the hateful Disk stilldishonoured by its vicinity the sanctuary of Karuak. Harmhabi, on the otherhand, was devoted to Anion, who had moulded him in embryo, and had trained
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THE FIRST PYLON Of HAK.MUAU1 AT KAllNAK. him from his birth to worship none but liim. Harmhabis triumph marked theend of the evil days, and inaugurated a new era, in which Amon saw himselfagain master of Thebes and of the world. Immediately after his enthronementHarmhabi rivalled the first Amenothes in his zeal for the interests of his divinefather: he overturned the obelisks of Atonu and the building before which theystood ; then, that no trace of them might remain, lie worked up the stones intothe masonry of two pylons, which he set up upon the site, to the south of thegates of Thutmosis III. They remained concealed in the new fabric forcenturies, but in the year 27 B.C. a great earthquake brought them abruptly tolight. We find everywhere among the ruins, at the foot of the dislocatedgates, or at the bases of the headless colossal figures, heaps of blocks detachedfrom the structure, on which can bo made out remnants of prayers addressed Drawn by Faucliei-Guiliii, from ;i pliotogrnpl

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