The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . y Faucher-Gudin, from a photograpli taken at Karnak by Beato. Another represen-tation of the same town was found at Luxor, on one of the walls which have been since 1884. Most of the Canaanite towns taken by Eamses II. in the campaign of his VIII year werefortified in this manner (Ch.^miOllion, Monnmenls de VlCijijpte el de la Ntdtie, vol. i. pp. SSO, 8S1;Lepsius, Dcnlim, iii. 15G). It must have been the usual method of fortification, as it seems to liaveserved as a type for conventional representation, and was sometimes used
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . y Faucher-Gudin, from a photograpli taken at Karnak by Beato. Another represen-tation of the same town was found at Luxor, on one of the walls which have been since 1884. Most of the Canaanite towns taken by Eamses II. in the campaign of his VIII year werefortified in this manner (Ch.^miOllion, Monnmenls de VlCijijpte el de la Ntdtie, vol. i. pp. SSO, 8S1;Lepsius, Dcnlim, iii. 15G). It must have been the usual method of fortification, as it seems to liaveserved as a type for conventional representation, and was sometimes used to denote cities wliich hadfortifications of another kind. For instance, Dapir-Tabor is represented in this way in tlie listreferred to above, while a picture on another monument, which is reproduced in the illustration onthis page, represents what seems to have been the particular form of its encomjiassiug walls (Cailliaud,Voyage a Mgrog, vol. ii. pi. Ixsiii. 1; Cuampollion, Monuments de l£gypte et de la Nuhie, pi. , Denim., iii. IGG).. THE WALLED rlTY nf HAM R, IN GALILLi:. THE OANAANITE FORTRESSES. ?j;>
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