The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . 3, cclxv. 1, ; Rosellini, Monumcnli lieali, jjls. ; Lepsius,Denhm., iii. 74 c, 75 a-d ; Gayet, Le Temple de Luxor, pis. It was at first thought thatSliitemuau was an Ethiopian (Wilkinson, Manners and Cusloms, 2nd edit., vol. i. p. 42; Birch, Ona llemarhahle Object of the lieign of Amenophis III., p. 3, and History of Egypt, p. 107; (i. Rawlinson,llittury of Ancient Egypt, vol. ii. p. 2G1), afterwards that she was a Syrian (Jensen, Aus dcm Ilriefeim Mitunni Sproche), who had changed her name on
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . 3, cclxv. 1, ; Rosellini, Monumcnli lieali, jjls. ; Lepsius,Denhm., iii. 74 c, 75 a-d ; Gayet, Le Temple de Luxor, pis. It was at first thought thatSliitemuau was an Ethiopian (Wilkinson, Manners and Cusloms, 2nd edit., vol. i. p. 42; Birch, Ona llemarhahle Object of the lieign of Amenophis III., p. 3, and History of Egypt, p. 107; (i. Rawlinson,llittury of Ancient Egypt, vol. ii. p. 2G1), afterwards that she was a Syrian (Jensen, Aus dcm Ilriefeim Mitunni Sproche), who had changed her name on arriving at the court of her husband (Euman,Neue» auK den Tuftln von El-Amarna, in the Zeitachrift, vol. xxviii. pp. 112, 114). The manner iiiwhich «he is represented at Luxor, and in all the texts where she figures, proves not only that sliewas of Egyptian race, but that alio was the daugliter of Ameuothes II., and born of tlie marriagoof that priuce with one of his sisters, who was herself an hereditary priucess. 29G THE EIGHTEENTH THEBAN iilKEN bim with the title of mother; in another bas-relief we see the queen led to hercouch by the goddesses who preside over the birth of chiklren; her sonAmenothes, on coming into the world with his double, is placed in the handsof the two Niles, to receive the nourishment and the education meet for the children of the gods. He profited fully bythem, for he remained in power forty years,and his reign was one of the most pros-perous ever witnessed by Egypt during theTheban dynasties. Amenothes III. had spent but little of histime in war. He had undertaken the usualraids in the South against the negroes and thetribes of the Upper Nile. In his fifth year,a general defection of the sheikhs obliged himto invade the province of Abhait, near Semneh,which he devastated at the head of the troopscollected by Marimosu, the Prince of Kiish;the punishment was salutary, the booty con-siderable, and a lengthy peace was re-estab-l
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