The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . v., and W. Max MOllkk, Aaieniiml Kuropa, pp. 161, 102, 191-196. Drawn by Boudier, from a photograpli by Iteatu fif the rcpnSentation ,of tlie sicKC of Papfirunder Ramsee II. Mabpero, Le recil ile la rciinparjne ile Tfioulmon lU., in tlie Iteriieil, vol. ii. |)]i. ?, ira].!!!. 260 TUE EianTEENTH TffEBAN DYNASTY. the catalogue, however, was not to end even here. Having once set out on acareer of conquest, the Pharaoh had no inclination to lay aside his arms. Fromthe XXIIP year of his reign to that of his death, we have a record oftw
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . v., and W. Max MOllkk, Aaieniiml Kuropa, pp. 161, 102, 191-196. Drawn by Boudier, from a photograpli by Iteatu fif the rcpnSentation ,of tlie sicKC of Papfirunder Ramsee II. Mabpero, Le recil ile la rciinparjne ile Tfioulmon lU., in tlie Iteriieil, vol. ii. |)]i. ?, ira].!!!. 260 TUE EianTEENTH TffEBAN DYNASTY. the catalogue, however, was not to end even here. Having once set out on acareer of conquest, the Pharaoh had no inclination to lay aside his arms. Fromthe XXIIP year of his reign to that of his death, we have a record oftwelve military expeditions, all of which he led in person. Southern Syria wasconquered at the outset—the whole of Kharu as far as the Lake of Gennesareth,and the Amorite power was broken at one blow. The three succeedingcampaigns consolidated the rule of Egypt in the country of the Negeb, whichlay to the south-west of the Dead Sea, in Phoenicia, which prudently resigneditself to its fate, and in that part of Lotanii occupying the northern part of the. MIME OF THE PLANTS AND ANIMALS BROrCHT BACK FROM IDaNIT. basin of the Orontes.^ None of these expeditions appear to have been markedby any successes comparable to the victory at Megiddo, for the coalition ofthe Syrian chiefs did not survive the blow which they then sustained; butQodshu long remained the centre of resistance, and the successive defeats whichits inhabitants suffered never disarmed for more than a short interval the hatredwhich they felt for the Egyptian. During these years of glorious activityconsiderable tribute poured in to both Memphis and Thebes; not only ingotsof gold and silver, bars and blocks of copper and lead, blocks of lapis-lazuliand valuable vases, but horses, oxen, sheep, goats, and useful animals of everykind, in addition to all of which we find, as in Hatshopsitiis reign, the mentionof rare plants and shrubs brought back from countries traversed by the armiesin their various expeditions. The Theban
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