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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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enhn., iii. 92, 93. = Id., ihid., iii. 97 e, 103, 109. Nestok Lhote, Lettres Writes (VEgyple, p. 59; Prisse dAvennes, Hist, de IArl Egyptien ;LEPSirs, Denkm., iii. 91 a, lOU b, 110 a, b. Nestor Lhuie, Leltrcs icriles dAjtjpte, pp. GG, G7 ; Lepsius, Denltm., iii. 98 b. ^ Lepsius, Denkm., iii. 93, wliure tlio princesses are seen followiuy the king to tlio temple ofAtonft in a chariot; ibid., 103, 109, where they are present at the distribution of the golden necklaces. Drawn by Faucher-Giidin, from a drawing by Peirii;, Tell el-Amarna, pi. i. IG, and pis. 10, 41.A picture in Lepsius, IJenhm., iii. 99 b, shows them seated un the same scat aud embracing each other. • Nestor Lhote, Leitres ^criles dEgtjpte, pp. Gl-GG; Lepsius, Denkm., iii. 91-iil, 97. Lepsiu.s, Den/fm., ill. 100 b. Wo ought possibly to read the name Huiti; the cuneiform tran-scriptions, however, place after the i a final «, which inclines me to prefer Huia. Lepsids, Denkm., Iii3, IOC a. 328 THE EIGHTEENTH THEBAN DYNASTY.
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KHUNIATONU AND HIS WIFE REWARDING ONE OF THE fiKEAT OFFICEIIS OP THE COURT. to watch jealously over the ordinary progress of governinent and foreigoaffairs. The architects, too, were not allowed to staud idle, and withouttaking into account the repairs of existing buildings, had plenty to doin constructing edifices in honour of Atonii in the principal towns of theNile valley, at Memphis,^ Heliopolis,^ Hermopolis,* Hermonthis, and in theFayiim.^ The provinces in Ethiopia remained practically in the samecondition as in the time of Amenothes III.; Kush was pacified, notwith-standing the raids which the tribes of the desert were accustomed to makefrom time to time, only to receive on each occasion rigorous chastisementfrom the kings viceroy. The sudden degradation of Amon had not broughtabout any coldness between the Pharaoh and his princely allies in Asia. Theaged Amenothes had, towards the end of his reign, asked the band of Dushrattasdaughter in marriage, and the Mitannian king, highly

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