The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . f thebas-reliefs in the temple of Luxor. = Amenothes entitles himself on a scarabsus he who takes prisoner the country of Singar ?(Petbie, Historical Scarabs, ph 40, No. 12G6); no other document has yet been discovered to showwhether this is hyperbole, or whether he really reached this distant region. * The lists of the time of Amenothes III. contain the names of Phoenicia, Naharaim, Singar,Qodshu, Tunipa, Patina, Carchemish, and Assur ; that is to say, of all the subject or allied nationsmentioned in the correspondence of Tel el-Amarna
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . f thebas-reliefs in the temple of Luxor. = Amenothes entitles himself on a scarabsus he who takes prisoner the country of Singar ?(Petbie, Historical Scarabs, ph 40, No. 12G6); no other document has yet been discovered to showwhether this is hyperbole, or whether he really reached this distant region. * The lists of the time of Amenothes III. contain the names of Phoenicia, Naharaim, Singar,Qodshu, Tunipa, Patina, Carchemish, and Assur ; that is to say, of all the subject or allied nationsmentioned in the correspondence of Tel el-Amarna (Lepsids, Denhm., iii. 87 d-SS, list of Soleb).Oerlaiu episodes of these expeditions had been engraved on the exterior face of the pylon construcled bythe king for the temple of Amon at Karnak; at the present time they are concealed by tlie wall at thelower end of the Hypostyle Hall (Mariette, Karnali, Texte, p. 26). The tribute of the Lotanu was repre-sented on the tomb of Hui, at Shtlkh-Abd-el-Qiiruch (Champollion, Monuments, vol. i. pp. 479, 480).. ( Colossal Head in the British Museum ) TDE RELATIONS OF AMENOTHES III. WITH ASIA. 297 Pharaoh merely to enlist his support, or at any rate make sure of hisneutrality, and prevent him from joining tlieir adversaries. Whatever mif^hthave been the nature oftheir private sentiments,tliey professed to be anxiousto maintain, for their mu-tual interests, the relationswith Egypt entered onhalf a century before, andas the surest method ofattaining their object wasby a good marriage, theywould each seek an Egyji-tian wife for himself, orwould offer Amenothes aprincess of one of theirown royal families. TheEgyptian king was, how-ever, firm in refusing tobestow a princess of thesolar blood even on themost powerful of the foreign kings; his pride rebelled at the thought that she miglit one day be consignedto a place among the inferior wives or concubines, but he gladly accepted,and even sought for wives for himself, from among the Syrian and
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