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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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THE bHUiiVLd WELCOMED BY THE GAUKIsUN UF gUDSUC. THE VICTORY OF RAMSES II. AND HIS TRUCE WITH THE KHATI. 395 adversaries, and perhaps regarded tbo eventuality of a siege with no smalldistaste; Ramses, therefore, accepted the offers made to him and prepared toreturn to Egypt. The fame of his exploits had gone before him, and he himselfwas not a little proud of the energy he had displayed on the day of battle.His predecessors had always shown themselves to be skilful generals and bravesoldiers, but none of them had ever before borne, or all but borne, single-handedthe brunt of an attack. Ramses loaded his shield-bearer Manna with rewardsfor having stood by him in the hour of danger, and ordered abundant provenderand sumptuous harness for the good horses— Strengtli-in-Thebaid and Niirit
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THE GARRISON OP QODSuC ISSCINCi FORTH TO HELP THE riilNCE UF KHATI. the satisfied —who had drawn his chariot.-^ He determined that the most charac-teristic episodes of the campaign—the beating of the spies, the surprise of thecamp, the kings repeated charges, the arrival of his veterans, the flight of theSyrians, and the surrender of Qodshu—should be represented on the walls andpylons of the temples. A poem in rhymed strophes in every case accompaniesthese records of his glory, whether at Luxor, at the Ramesseum, at the Mem-nonium of Abydos, or in the heart of Nubia at Abu Simbel. The author of thepoem must have been present during the campaign, or must have had the accountof it from the lips of his sovereign, for his work bears no traces of the coldness of Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Benedite; cf. Champollion, Monuments deIEgypte et de la Nuhie, pi. cccxxiv., and Koseli.ini, ^(o7mmenti Storici, pi. civ. Sallier Papyrus III., pi. 8, 11. 7, 8. A gold ring in the

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