The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ulletin Archgologique deIAlhgnaium Franfais, 1855, p. 53). Stele of the year XLVII., where Thutmosis III. relates the buildiug of a wall in the temple ofEa (Lepsius, Denkm., iii. 29 b); also remains of bas-reliefs representing that prince (Brugsch,Rcctteil de Monuments, vol. i. pi. x. 23 o, b, and pp. 20, 21). Remains of a building of Amenothes II. discovered by Naville, Buhastis, pi. xxxv. ii, andpp. 30, 31; monuments of Amenothes III. at Bubastis (Id., ibid., pis. xiii., xxv. b, xxxv. e-h, andpp. 31-34). It was perhaps from thence tha
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ulletin Archgologique deIAlhgnaium Franfais, 1855, p. 53). Stele of the year XLVII., where Thutmosis III. relates the buildiug of a wall in the temple ofEa (Lepsius, Denkm., iii. 29 b); also remains of bas-reliefs representing that prince (Brugsch,Rcctteil de Monuments, vol. i. pi. x. 23 o, b, and pp. 20, 21). Remains of a building of Amenothes II. discovered by Naville, Buhastis, pi. xxxv. ii, andpp. 30, 31; monuments of Amenothes III. at Bubastis (Id., ibid., pis. xiii., xxv. b, xxxv. e-h, andpp. 31-34). It was perhaps from thence that the columns named after Amenothes II. and Thutmosis IV. Were brought, which were carried to Alexandria in Roman times, and recently presented to theVienna Museum (E. de Bergmans, Inschriftliche Denkmdler, in the Becucil, vol. vii. pp. 147-149). Monuments of Amenothes III. at Athribis, from whence came the serpent in the Gizeh Museum(Makiette-Maspero, Monuments divers, pi. 63 h, and p. 21). 777A TEMPLES OF MAUT AT KARNAK, AND OF AMON AT LUXOJi. 305 I !. THE TEMPLE AT ELEPHANTINE, AS IT WAS IN 1799. ancient Beyond the Bed Sea the mines were actively worked,^ andeven tlie oases of the Libyan desert took part in the national revival, andbuildings rose in their midst of a size proportionate to their slenderrevenues.^ Thebes naturally came in for the largest share of the spoils of her kings had become the rulers of the world, they had not, like thePharaohs of the XII> and XIII dynasties, forsaken her for some more illus-trious city : here they had their ordinary residence as well as their seat ofgovernment, hither they returned after each campaign to celebrate theirvictory, and hither they sent the prisoners and the spoil which they had re-served for their own royal use. In the course of one or two generationsThebes had spread in every direction, and had enclosed within her circuit Drawn by Fauclier-Guilin, from tlic Description de VEiiijpte, Ant., vol. i.
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