The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . corvee for repairscompleted their work in one part, than they had to begin again elsewhere. Therevenues of Amon must, indeed, have been enormous to have borne the continual .Jollois-Devilliei!s, Description du palais, des propylief, des avenues de sphinx, des temples,etc., in tlie Discrijition de VEgyple, vol. ii. p. 474, aud vol. iii. pi. 30, No. 4 ; LeiSIUS, Sur VOriijinedee cnlnnnes-piliers en E(jijpte, p. 29; PEBKOT-CairiEZ, Histoire de IArt daits VAntiquity, vol. i. p. 558,and Maspebo, Archfologie Kgyjdiemic, pji. 5G, 57. Drawn by
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . corvee for repairscompleted their work in one part, than they had to begin again elsewhere. Therevenues of Amon must, indeed, have been enormous to have borne the continual .Jollois-Devilliei!s, Description du palais, des propylief, des avenues de sphinx, des temples,etc., in tlie Discrijition de VEgyple, vol. ii. p. 474, aud vol. iii. pi. 30, No. 4 ; LeiSIUS, Sur VOriijinedee cnlnnnes-piliers en E(jijpte, p. 29; PEBKOT-CairiEZ, Histoire de IArt daits VAntiquity, vol. i. p. 558,and Maspebo, Archfologie Kgyjdiemic, pji. 5G, 57. Drawn by Fuuclier-Gudin, frum a plioUiKrapli by Ueutu. For further remarks ou these pillars, usually called stele pillars, el. ,Description du palais, des propylies, etc., iu the Description de IEgypte, vol. iii. pp. 4G1, 4G2, andvol. iii. pi. 30, No. 7; Lepsius, Sur VOrigine des colonnes-pitiers en Egypte, pp. 27, 28; PrisSEdAvennes, Ilistoire de IArt Egyptien, pp. 359, 3G0, and Perrot-Chipiez, Histoire de VArt dansIAntiquit^, vol. i. p. the two stele-pillars at 558 THE CLOSE OF THE THEBAN EMPIRE. drain occasioned by restoration, and the resources of the god would soon havebeen exhausted had not foreign wars continued to furnish him during severalcenturies with all or more than he needed. The gods had suffered severely inthe troublous times which had followed the reign of Seti II., and it requiredall the generosity of Kamses III. to compensate them for the losses theyhad sustained during the anarchy under Arisd.^ The spoil taken from theLibyans, from the Peoples of the Sea, and from the Hittites bad flowed intothe sacred treasuries, while the able administration of the sovereign had donethe rest, so that on the accession of Ramses IV. the temples were in a moreprosperous state than ever. They held as their own property 169 towns, nineof which were in Syria and Ethiopia; they possessed 113,433 slaves of bothsexes, 493,386 head of cattle, 1,071,780 arurs
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