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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
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el-Amarna tablets (Bezold-Budge,The Tell el-Amania Tablets in the British Museum, pp. xxx.-xxxii.). It may be mentioned lierethat the name of Nineveh does not occur on the Egyptian monuments, but only that of thetown Nii, in whicli Champolliou (Grammaire ^gyptieime, p. 150) wrongly recognised the latercapital of Assyria. On the subject of these complaints of King Kallimmasin of Babylon to Amenothes III., seeBezold-Budge, The Tell el-Amarna Tablets, pp. xxviii., xxix. • Tiele, Western Asia according to themore recent Discoveries, pp. 12-14. The castle, for instance, near Megiddo, previously refer ed to, which, after having contributedto the siege of the town, probably served to keep it in subjertion; see p. 25S of the present work. THE CONQUEST OF UPPER LOTANU. 263 upon both Ccele-Syria and Naliaiaim.^ He encamped, in the year XXVII.,on the table-land separating the Afrin and the Orontes from the Euphrates,and from that centre devastated the district of Uanit,^ which lay to the west
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SOME OF THE OBJECTS CARRIED IN TlilUUTE Tu THE SYRIANS. of Aleppo ; then crossing the water of Naharaim in the neighbourhood ofCarchemish, he penetrated into the heart of Mitanni.* The following yearhe reappeared in the same region. Tunipa, which had made an obstinateresistance, was taken, together with its king, and 329 of his nobles were forced The (iccounis of the caiupaigns of Thatmosis III. have been preserved iu the Annals iu a veryiiuililated condition, tlie fragments of which, discovered at diflerent .times, were published byYoiNG, llieroijhjpliio, pis. xli., xlii.; Lepsitj.?, Auswahl der wichligsten Vrlcunden, pi. xii., and Denlim.,iii. 30 a, 31 a ; by Mariette, Lellre a M. le vicomte de Rouge sur le rgMltal des fouillea enterprises parordre du roi dEgypte, pp. 17, 21, and Karnak, pi. 13. They were translated by limcH, Observationson the Statistical Tablet of Kama!;, and The Annals of Thotmes III., iu the Records of the Fast, Istseries, vol. ii. pp. 2i)-28; by Osburn, The Mon

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