The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . A TLATOON (troop) OF EfiTPIlAN SPEAKMEN AT DEIK BL-BAHAEI. and dagger, and occasionally a bow.^ The light infantry was composed chiefly ofbowmen—indidiu—the celebrated archers of Egypt, whose long bows and arrows,used with deadly skill, speedily became renowned throughout the East; ^ the Drawu by Fuucher-Gudiu, from a photograijh taken liy Naville, The Temple of Deir el-Bahari,its Plan, its Founders, and its first Explorers. Introduclonj Memoir, pi. viii. - Besides the soldiers pictured above, we possess hardly any military illustration
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . A TLATOON (troop) OF EfiTPIlAN SPEAKMEN AT DEIK BL-BAHAEI. and dagger, and occasionally a bow.^ The light infantry was composed chiefly ofbowmen—indidiu—the celebrated archers of Egypt, whose long bows and arrows,used with deadly skill, speedily became renowned throughout the East; ^ the Drawu by Fuucher-Gudiu, from a photograijh taken liy Naville, The Temple of Deir el-Bahari,its Plan, its Founders, and its first Explorers. Introduclonj Memoir, pi. viii. - Besides the soldiers pictured above, we possess hardly any military illustrations from the earlierreigns of the XVIII dynasty, excepting the troops represented in the pictures of the fetes celebratedon the return of the fleet from the Puanit, under Hatshopsitii (DOmicuen, Die Flotte eincr .JUgi/ptischenKSnigin, pis. v., vi., vii., viii., x., xiii.; Mariette, Deir el-Bahari, pis. i, 11, 12, lo); we meet withsome of them again on the monuments of AmemJtlies IV. (Lepsius, Denlcm., iii. 92) and of Harmhabi(ChaiiIOLLIOX, Monuments d
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