The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . stood before the centre gate, accompanied by the queen and his minister Ame- nothes, the son of Hapi, who was better acquainted than any other man of his time with the mysteries of the ritual.^ The king then struck the door twelve times with his mace of white stone, and when the approach to the first hall was opened, f he repeated the operation at I the threshold of the sanctuarv \ previous to entering and placing ;j his statue there. He deposited it on the painted and gilded wooden platform on which the gods were exhibited on feast-day
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . stood before the centre gate, accompanied by the queen and his minister Ame- nothes, the son of Hapi, who was better acquainted than any other man of his time with the mysteries of the ritual.^ The king then struck the door twelve times with his mace of white stone, and when the approach to the first hall was opened, f he repeated the operation at I the threshold of the sanctuarv \ previous to entering and placing ;j his statue there. He deposited it on the painted and gilded wooden platform on which the gods were exhibited on feast-days, and enthroned beside it the other images which were thenceforth to constitute the local Ennead, after which he kindled the sacred fire before them. The queen, with the priests and nobles, all bearing torches, then passed through the halls, stopping from time to time to perform acts of purification, or to recite formulas to dispel evil spirits and pernicious influences; finally, a triumphal procession was formed, and the whole cortirje returned to the. IINE ub THE RA31S 01 AMENOTHES III. *>,• /^f ^•J^*- I- 83-SS. Lepsius had recnguised tlie nature of the divinity temple {Bnefe am JEgypten und ^Ihiopien, pp. 256, 415) ; the deified statue of tlin kin-, hisliving Htatue on earth, which represenied the god of the temple, is tliere named Nibmauri, lord01 T>iubia (la, Denhm., iii. pi. ,S7 a-c). Thutmoais III. had already worked at Solob. On Anienotlies, tlie son of Hapi, see pp. 298, 299 of tlie present volume ; it will be seen in theloilowmg chapter, in couneotion with the Egyptian accounts of the Exodus, what tradition madeof him. l^--«yFucher-Gudin,from a photograph by Mons. de Merteus; the original was carriedaway Iroin feoleb by Lepaus, and is at the present time in the Berlin Museum (Euman, AusfuUrliche»Verznchnm, 189t, pp. 23, 24, No. 7202) 302 THE EIGHTEENTH THEDAX DYNASTY. palace, where a banquet brought the days festivities to a close. It w
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