The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ents, pi. clx. 3, and vol. i. p. 500; Lepsiis, Denkm., iii. ti3 o). From the remains of a stele at Ibiini, where Amenothes II. related the suppression of this revolt(Champollion, Monuments, vol. i. p. So). * Inscription in the temple of Amada, published by Champollion, 3Ionuments, vol. i. pp. 105-107, and more fully by Lepsus, Denkm., iii. a, 11. 16-20. It is there said that the king offeredthis sacrifice on his return from his first expedition into Asia, and for this reason I have connectedthe facts thus related with those known to
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ents, pi. clx. 3, and vol. i. p. 500; Lepsiis, Denkm., iii. ti3 o). From the remains of a stele at Ibiini, where Amenothes II. related the suppression of this revolt(Champollion, Monuments, vol. i. p. So). * Inscription in the temple of Amada, published by Champollion, 3Ionuments, vol. i. pp. 105-107, and more fully by Lepsus, Denkm., iii. a, 11. 16-20. It is there said that the king offeredthis sacrifice on his return from his first expedition into Asia, and for this reason I have connectedthe facts thus related with those known to us through the stele of Karnak. For the interpretationof the last lines of the Inscription of Amada, cf. Bkugsch, Uistoire dEgypte, pp. 110, 111, andGeschichte JEgyptens, pp. 3S9-391; Chaeas, Les liiseriplions des Mines dor, pp. 19-21. The last known date of his reign is that of the year V., which has been preserved in one ofthe papyri in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris (Pleyte, Les Papyrus Itollin de la BihliotlUqueImperiale, pi. xv. jip. 23, 24).. TlIK CHEAT SPHINX AND T1[K CIIArEL OI THUTMOSIS IV. Drawn liy Fauclier-Gudin, from the iiholognn/h taken in 1887 by Eiuil Brugscli-Bey. 294 THE EIGETEENTH THEBAN DYNASTY. * Thiitmosis, who resided at the White Wall, was iu the habit of betakinghimself frequently to the Libyan desert to practise with the javelin, or topursue the hunt of lions and gazelles in his chariot. On these occasions itwas his pleasure to preserve the strictest incognito, and be was accompaniedby two discreet servants only. One day, when chance had brought him intothe neighbourhood of the Great Pyramid, he lay down for his accustomedsiesta in the shade cast by the Sphinx, the miraculous image of Khopri themost powerful, the god to whom all men in Memphis and the neighbouringtowns raised adoring hands filled with offerings. The gigantic statuewas at that time more than half bui-ied, and its head alone was seenabove the sand. As soon as the prince was asleep
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