The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . of these draughtsmen betrays the influenceof the second-rate schools in which they had learned their craft, and tbeclumsiness of their work would often repel us, were it not that the interest ofthe episodes portrayed redeems it in the eyes of the Egyptologist. Khuniatonu left no son to succeed him ; two of his sons-in-law succes-sively occupied the throne—Saakeri,-^ who Iiad married his eldest daughter Drawn by Faucher-Gudiu, from a photograph by Petrie, Tell el-Amarna, pi. 1, No. 12. This kings name was discovered by PnissE uAvennes, M
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . of these draughtsmen betrays the influenceof the second-rate schools in which they had learned their craft, and tbeclumsiness of their work would often repel us, were it not that the interest ofthe episodes portrayed redeems it in the eyes of the Egyptologist. Khuniatonu left no son to succeed him ; two of his sons-in-law succes-sively occupied the throne—Saakeri,-^ who Iiad married his eldest daughter Drawn by Faucher-Gudiu, from a photograph by Petrie, Tell el-Amarna, pi. 1, No. 12. This kings name was discovered by PnissE uAvennes, Monuments Egypliene, p. 3, and was in-correctly copied by liim, so that Brugsch (Gesch. JSgyptena, p. ) renders it Saueeht, and AViedemunn(Jiijypt. Oesch., p. ?103) Ra-se-aa-ka, while Value (Tell el-Amurna,\>. 29, aud pi. \v. 102-lUi)) gives to itthe form Samankhkeii ZosirkhopirQ. I know of no example, during tliis period, of the verb monkhubeing expressed by the mallet only ; I tliorefore read provisionally the name Siiakeri with the sign TWO OF THE DArGHTEHS OF KHUNIATONU. 334 THE EIGHTEENTH THEBAN DYNASTY. Maritatomx, and Tutankhamon, the liusband of Ankhnasaton. The first hadbeen associated in the sovereignty by his father-in-law; ^ he showed liimselfa zealous partisan of the Disk, and he continued to reside in the newcapital during the few years of liis sole reign.^ The second son-in-law wasa son of Araenothes III., probably by a concubine.^ He returned to thereligion of Anion, and his wife, abjuring the creed of her father, changed hername from Ankhnasaton to that of Ankhnasamon. Her husband abandonedKhuitatonu * at the end of two or three years, and after his departure thetown fell into decadence as quickly as it had arisen. The streets were unfre-quented, the palaces and temples stood empty, the tombs remained unfinishedand unoccupied, and its patron god returned to his former state, and wasrelegated to the third or fourth rank in the Egyptian Pantheon. The
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