The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ly by Golenischeff, Excursion h Berenice, in the Becneil de Travax,vol. xiii. pp. 77, 7S, pla. i., ii. They have beeu annotated and translated by Chabas, Tine Inscriptionhislorique du, regue de Siii /?, and Leg Inscripliona des Minen dor, pp. 5, 0 ; by Lauth, Die zweiitltesteLandharle, in the Silzunysherichte of the Munich Academy of Scieucee, 1871, vol. ii. pp. 204-210; byBiiiCH, Inecriptitine of the Gold Mines at RItedesieh and Kulan, in the Records of the Past, Ist series,vol. viii. pp. 09-75; by Brugscu, Geschichle JCgijptciis, pp.
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ly by Golenischeff, Excursion h Berenice, in the Becneil de Travax,vol. xiii. pp. 77, 7S, pla. i., ii. They have beeu annotated and translated by Chabas, Tine Inscriptionhislorique du, regue de Siii /?, and Leg Inscripliona des Minen dor, pp. 5, 0 ; by Lauth, Die zweiitltesteLandharle, in the Silzunysherichte of the Munich Academy of Scieucee, 1871, vol. ii. pp. 204-210; byBiiiCH, Inecriptitine of the Gold Mines at RItedesieh and Kulan, in the Records of the Past, Ist series,vol. viii. pp. 09-75; by Brugscu, Geschichle JCgijptciis, pp. 470-477; and liiuilly by Scuiapakelm,La Catena Urientale delV Eijitto, pp. 82-85. 376 THE BE ACTION AGAINST EGYPT. us that the map represents the Bukhni mountain and a fortress and steleof Seti. The whole thing is executed in a rough and naive manner, with analmost childish minuteness whioh provokes a smile; we should, however, notdespise it, for it is the oldest map in the world.^ The gold extracted from these regions, together with that brought from. F]:agmext of the .mat ov thk gold-mini:; Ethiopia, and, better still, the regular payment of taxes and custom-house duties,,went to make up for the lack of foreign spoil all the more opportunely, for,although the sovereign did not share the military enthusiasm of Thutmosis III.,he had inherited from him the passion for expensive temple-building. Hedid not neglect Nubia in this respect, but repaired several of the monumentsat which the XYIII dynasty had worked—among others, Kalabsheh,^ It bus been published by Lepsius, Aiisicalil der iciclitiijs(en Vrliunden, pi. xxii. (ef. Bibch, Upona Historical Tahht of Bamses p. 26); by Chabas, Les Inscriptions des Mints dor. pp. 30-32, andpi. ii.; filially by Laith, Die alftste Landkarte nuhischer Goldminen, in the Sitzungsherichte of theMunich Academy of Sciences, 1S70, vol. ii. pp. 337-372. The fragments of a second map are to befound in Lieblein-Chabas, Deux Pajtyrus higratiques, pp
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