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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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in hisomniscience, took upon himself to describe it and give an exact account of itsposition. The Ladders of Incense is a secret province of Tonutir, it is intruth a place of delight. I created it, and I thereto lead Thy Majesty, together > From tho form of the trees depicted on the monument (of. p. 253 of the present volume, -wheresome are represented), jt is certain that the Egyptians went to P&anit in search o( the BoswelliaThurifera Cakt. (Loket, La Flore Fharaonique, 2nd edit., p. 96); but they brought back with themother products also, which they confounded together under the name incense. = DuuiCHEN, Hist, liisch:, vol. ii. pi. xx. 11. 10-12 ; Mariette, Velr el-Bahari, pi. 10,11. 10-12. = Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Beato. See pp. 84, 85 of the Daion of Civilizalion concerning the Egyptian gods who came from Puauit,and pp. 396-398, 433, 434, 494-498 for the relations between Piianit a;id Egypt, both under theMemphite, and during the first Theban empiici.
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HATSHOrSlTU S OliELISK AT KABXAK. THE EXPEDITION TO PUANIT. iM? vitli 3Iut, iJathor, Urrit, the Lady of Puanit, Uiiit-hikau, the magician audregent of the gods, that the aromatic gum may be gathered at will, that thevessels may be laden joyfully with living incense trees and with all the productsof this earth. Hatshopsitu chose out five well-built galleys, and manned themwith picked crews. She caused them to be laden with such merchandise as wouldbe most attractive to the barbarians, and placing the vessels under the command.of a royal envoy, she sent them forth on the Ked Sea in quest of the incense.^ We are not acquainted with the name of the port from which the fleet setsail, nor do we know the number of weeks it took to reach the land of Puanit,neither is there any record of the incidents which befell it by the way.It sailed past the places frequented by the mariners of the XII dynasty—Suakin, Massowah, and the islands of the Eed Sea; it touched at the countryof the Ilim which l

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