A History of Egypt under the Pharaohs Derived Entirely from the Monuments

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: year; as, for example, the historical record in the temple in the desert of Eedesieh, which was built in the ninth year of the reign of Seti, and which cites the following names of the peoples which had then been conquered: 1. Sangar, i.e. Singara; 2. Kadeshu; 3. Makita, i.e. Megiddo; 4. Ha; 5. the Shasu...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: year; as, for example, the historical record in the temple in the desert of Eedesieh, which was built in the ninth year of the reign of Seti, and which cites the following names of the peoples which had then been conquered: 1. Sangar, i.e. Singara; 2. Kadeshu; 3. Makita, i.e. Megiddo; 4. Ha; 5. the Shasu Arabs of Edorn; 6. Asal or Asar, a name which we can hardly venture to identify with Assur. Seti carried on his wars not only in the east but in the west, and in particular against the Libyan peoples, who now accordingly appear for the first time on the Egyptian monuments. The double plume on the crown of the head and the side locks of hair mark in the most striking manner these races, which the inscriptions designate by the name of Thuhi, Thuhen, or Thuheni? that is, ' the light or fair' people; and they likewise denote by the same name the later Greeks, for the expression Marmaridaj, inhabitants of the country of Marrna- rica, always means these people. In this campaign Seti took his son and heir, Eamessu, among the company of his followers. The kings of the Marmaridae were thoroughly beaten. In the battle itself Seti appears on a chariot, whose pair of horses bore the name, ' Victorious is Amon.' The campaign reached a mountainous country, full of caverns; as, at least, the contents of the appended inscription lead us to conclude: ' He (the king) utterly destroyed them, when he stood on the field of battle. They could not hold their bows, and remained hidden in their caves like foxes, through fear of the king.' It may be well supposed that, after these extensivecampaigns, which brought such a copious booty to Egypt, besides captives, Amon, the god of the empire, and his much venerated temple in Ape, would be the first to be remembered; and the memorial wall of t...