The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . \mMM^ TUE CAITIVK CIlIKlS OF |;AJ]SES III. AT MIOUINET-HABI . would end their lives in the nomes of Egypt, that they would till its valleysand its plains as their own land. The issue did not correspond with theirintentions. Death fell upon them within Egypt, for they had hastened withtheir feet to the furnace whicli consumes corruption, under the fire of thevalour of the king who rages like Baal from the heights of heaven. All hislimbs are invested with victorious strength ; with his right hand he lays holdof the multitudes, his left ex
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . \mMM^ TUE CAITIVK CIlIKlS OF |;AJ]SES III. AT MIOUINET-HABI . would end their lives in the nomes of Egypt, that they would till its valleysand its plains as their own land. The issue did not correspond with theirintentions. Death fell upon them within Egypt, for they had hastened withtheir feet to the furnace whicli consumes corruption, under the fire of thevalour of the king who rages like Baal from the heights of heaven. All hislimbs are invested with victorious strength ; with his right hand he lays holdof the multitudes, his left extends to those who are against him, like a cloud • The second campaign against the Libyans is known to us from the inscriptions of the year , published byDuMiciiEN, Uutorische Inschriften, vol. i. pis. , and by E. andJ. DE Rouge, Imcriptions Higi-oghjphiqius, pis. , translated in part by Chabas, fjtudeK stirVAntiijuiie, 2nd edit., pp. 237-243. It is to this campaign, probably, tliat the scenes at Jledinet-Habure
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