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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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e avenues were constructed, see pp. 308, 309 of the present work. The only researches, as far as I know, which have been carried out in these ruins are those ofMaspero, Etudes de Mythologie et dArch^oIogie t^gyptiennes, vol. i. pp. )84-190. ° Letronne, after having shown that we have no authentic ancient document giving us the popula-tion, fixes it at 200,000 souls (CEuvres choisies, ed. F.kcnan, pt. 1, vol. i. pp. 126-136). My estimate,which is, if anything, exaggerated, is based on the comparison of the area of ancient Thebes and thatof such modern towns as Siut, Girgeh, and Qina, whose populations arc known for the last fiftyvears from the census. THEBKS AND ITS PEOPLE. 485 Theban stock gave rise to families of a highly mixed character, in whichall the various races of Egypt were blended in the most capricious fashiou.Id every twenty officers, and in the same number of ordinary officials,about half would be either Syrians,^ or recently naturalised Nubians, or the Tbrnb c1 ih K r ,
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descendants of both, and among the citizens such names as Pakhari the Syrian,Palamnaui the native of the Lebanon, Pinahsi the negro, Palasiai the Alasian,preserved the indications of foreign origin.^ A similar mixture of races wasfound in other cities, and Memphis, Bubastis, Tanis, and Siut must havepresented as striking an aspect in this respect as Thebes. At Memphis See p. 438 of the present volume an to Ben-Azana of tlie tosvn of Zor-Bisaua, and p. 140 as toArisu, the Syrian, who was for a short time King of Egypt. Among the forty-three inilividuals compromised in the conspiracy against Ramses III. (see pp.479,480 of the present work) whose names have been examined by Deveria (_Le Papyrus Jiidiciaire deTurin, etc., pp. 138-102), nine are foreigners, eliiefly Semites, and were so recognised by tlie Esyptiansthemselves—Adiram(p. 139), Balmaliaru (p. 141), Garapusa (p. 144), lunini the Libyan (pp. 144,157,158), Paiarisalama, possibly the Jerusalemite (pp. 144, 148, 149), Nanaiu, pos

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