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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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of them which have comedown to us, have been collected in an almost complete form by Wiedemann, Mjypt. Gesch., ))p. 463,464. Kuban Inscription, 11. 16,17, which contain the address presented to Ramses himself by the royalcouncillors. ^ iirugsch is wrong in reckoning the reign of Ramses II. from the time of his association in thecrown (Geschichte JEgyptens, p. 471); the great inscription of Abydos, which has been translated byBrugsch himself, dates events which immediately followed the death of Seti I. as belonging to thefirst year of Ramses II. (11. 22, 26, 72 ; cf. Maspero, La Grande Inscription dAbydos et lajeunesse deS^sostris, pp. 14, 17, 48). JOINT REIGN OF SETI AND RAMSES. 387 the Tihonu,! and put to the sword such of their hordes as had ventured toinvade Egyptian territory.- He exercised the functions of viceroy of Ethiopia,and had on several occasions to chastise the pillaging negroes. We see him atBeit-Wally and at Abu Simbel charging them in his chariot: in vain they flee in
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■1-1 ■ II 1 i 1~ THE NEGROES TO FLIGHT.^ confusion before liim; their flight, however swift, cannot save them from captivityand destruction.* He was engaged in Ethiopia when the death of Seti recalledhim to Thebes.^ He at once returned to the capital, celebrated the kingsfuneral obsequies with suitable pomp, and after keeping the festival of Amon,set out for the north in order to make his authority felt in that part of hisdomains. He stopped on his way at Abydos to give the necessary orders for Mariette, Ahydos, vol. ii. pp. 13, 15. RosELLixi, MonumenU Storici, pis. Ixix.-lxx. Drawn by Faucber-Gudin, from a pbotograpb taken by Insinger at Beit-Wally; cf. Champollion,Monuments, pis. Ixxi., Ixxii., and vol. i. p. 14G; Rosellini, Monument) Storici, pis. Ixxiv., Ixxv. ;Akundale-Bonomi-Birch, Gallery af Antiijuities, pl. 38, fig. 155. * CuAMiOLLiON,-l/oHumenfs, pis. xii.-xvi., and vol. i. pp. 63, 64; Rosellini, Monumenti Storici,pis. ixiv., ixx.-lxxv. Maspero, Essai »ur Iinscription d

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