The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . tlie writings of Goodwin {Notes on unpublished Papyri, in the Zeitschrift,1873, pp. 39, 40, and Notes on the Mayor Papyri, in the Zeitschrift, 1874, pp. 61-65), and particularlyin those of Spiegelberg (Studien und Materialen zum Eechtsicesen des Pharaonenreiches, 1892, andTranslation of Hieratic Papyri Mayor A-B). Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from Lepsius, Denhm., iii. 300, No. 74; cf. Chajipollios, Jlfon. deVEgypte et de la Nubie, pi. cclsix. 3, 4, and Koselllxi, Monumenti Storici, pis. viii. 37 and xviii. 14. • GrafiBti which are evidences


The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . tlie writings of Goodwin {Notes on unpublished Papyri, in the Zeitschrift,1873, pp. 39, 40, and Notes on the Mayor Papyri, in the Zeitschrift, 1874, pp. 61-65), and particularlyin those of Spiegelberg (Studien und Materialen zum Eechtsicesen des Pharaonenreiches, 1892, andTranslation of Hieratic Papyri Mayor A-B). Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from Lepsius, Denhm., iii. 300, No. 74; cf. Chajipollios, Jlfon. deVEgypte et de la Nubie, pi. cclsix. 3, 4, and Koselllxi, Monumenti Storici, pis. viii. 37 and xviii. 14. • GrafiBti which are evidences of these inspections have been drawn on the walls of several royaltombs by the inspectors. Others have been found on several of the coffins discovered at Deir el-Bahari, on those of Seti I. and Ramses II.; cf. Maspero, Les Momies royales de Beir el-Bahari,in the Memoires de la Mission Fran^aise, vol. i. pp. 563, 567; the most ancient belong to thepontificate of Hrihor, others belong to the XXI* dynasty. HRIEOR AND TEE LAST OF THE RAMESSIDES. 563. position in the country. As his wife Nozmit was of royal blood, he assumedtitles and functions to wliich his father and grandfather had made no claim.^He became the Royal Son of Ethiopia and commander-iu-cliief of thenational and foreign troops; he engravedhis name upon the monuments he decorated,side by side with that of Ramses XII.;in short, he possessed all the characteristicsof a Pharaoh except the crown and theroyal protocol. A century scarcely hadelapsed since the abdication of RamsesIII., and now Tliebes and the whole ofEgypt owned two masters: one the em-bodiment of the ancient line, but a merenominal king; the other the representativeof Amon, and the actual ruler of thecount What then happened when the lastRamses who bore the kingly title wasgathered to his fathers? The royal listsrecord the accession after his death of a new dynasty of Tanitic origin, whose founder was Nsbindidi or Smendes ;?*but, on the other ha


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