The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria (1896) (14775905624)

Identifier: struggleofnation00maspuoft (find matches)
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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yptens, p. 2G5), and who was still in office under Thiitmosis III., had beenappointed by Thutmosis I. (Lepsics, Denhm., iii. 47 c, 1. 6), but after Sura. Under Thutmosis III., tlie viceroy Nahi restored the temple at Semneh (Lepsics, Denhm., iii.47 a, c, 56 a); under Tutankhamen, the viceroy Hui received tribute from the Ethiopian princes,and presented them to the sovereign (Lepsics, Denkm., iii. 117, US). Cf. the list of these princes under Eamses IV., in Wiedemann, MSgyptisclie Geschichte,pp. 16S, 469. THE PRINCES OF KVSn. •231 of genoraltihip more perfectly tbun was possible in tiie manoeuvres of theparade-groimd. Moreover, the appointment was dictated by religious as wellas by political considerations. The presumptive heir to the throne was to hisfather what Horus had been to Osiris—his lawful successor, or, if need be, hisavenger, should some act of treason impose on him the duty of vengeance : andwas it not in Ethiopia that ilorus had gained his tirst victories over Typhon ?
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A CITY OF MODERN NCBIA—THE ANCIENT DONGOLA. To begin like Horus, and flesh his maiden steel on tlie descendants of theaccomplices of Sit, was, in the case of the future sovereign, equivalent to affirm-ing from the outset the reality of his divine extraction.^ As at the commencement of the Tlieban dynasties, it was the river valleyonly in these regions of the Upper Nile which belonged to the Pharaohs.From this time onward it gave support to an Egyptian population as faras the juncture of tlie two Niles: it was a second Egypt, but a poorer one,whose cities presented the same impoverished appearance as that which wefind to-day in the towns of Nubia. The tribes scattered right and left in thedesert, or distributed beyond the confluence of the two Niles among the plainsof Sennar, were descended from the old indigenous races, and paid valuabletribute every year in precious metals, ivory, timber, or the natural products of Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from ii pliotogiaijli by Insin^er, taken in