The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . tuminous plaster. The mask of tlie mummy, in fact, gives a fair idea of that of the living king; the some-what unintelligent expression, slightly brutish perhaps, but haughty aud firm of purpose, displays itself with an air of royal majesty beneath the sombre materials used by the erabiilmer. The disappearance of the old hero did not pro-duce many changes in the position of affairs in Egypt: Miuephtah from this time forth possessed as Pharaoh the i-^ power wdiich he had pre-viously wielded as regent. He was now no longer young. Born som
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . tuminous plaster. The mask of tlie mummy, in fact, gives a fair idea of that of the living king; the some-what unintelligent expression, slightly brutish perhaps, but haughty aud firm of purpose, displays itself with an air of royal majesty beneath the sombre materials used by the erabiilmer. The disappearance of the old hero did not pro-duce many changes in the position of affairs in Egypt: Miuephtah from this time forth possessed as Pharaoh the i-^ power wdiich he had pre-viously wielded as regent. He was now no longer young. Born somewhere about the ginning of the reign of Ramses II., he was now sixty, possiblyseventy, years old ; thus an old man succeeded another old man at a momentwhen Egypt must have needed more than ever an active aud vigorous danger to the country did not on this occasion rise from the side of Asia,for the relations of the Pharaoh with his Ivharu ^ subjects continued friendly,and, during a famine which desolated Syria, he sent wheat to his Hittite \i. COFFIN UF ICAM^KS U. RAMSES II. Drawn by Faucher-GudiD, from a photograph by Emil Briigsch-Bey, taken iu 18S1. Theromay be seen below the cartouche the lines of the official report of inspection written during theXXI <lynasty. Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph taken in 1886 from the mummy itself, by Emil Brugsch-Bey; of. Masfero, Les Monties royales de D^r el-Bahari, in the Memoiree de la Mission Fran^-aise,vol. i. pis. A document preserved in the Anadaii Vapyrm III. (pis. v., vi., verso) shows how regular therelations witli Syria had become. It is the journal of a custom-house officer, or of a scribe placed atone of the frontier posts, who notes from day today the letters, messengers,officers, and troops whichpassed from the lolli to the 25th of Pachoiis, iu the III year of the reign (CiiAUAS, Reckerclu-s pourIhittoire de la XIX dymiKtie, pp. I).) -97 ; Lauth, Ajjyjditichc Textc uus der Zeit des Pluirao Mvuoplit
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