The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . back (p. .^54, u. 2) relating to Thiitmosis III., and which we more usuallymeet with in the cases of those kings who were not marked out from their birth onwards for the throne. Bai has left two inscriptions behind him, one at Silsilis (Champollion, Monument, eta., pi. cxx. 4 ;, Denkm., iii. 202 a; cf. the translation of the text in Bkugsch, Gexchiclde .Kgyptens, , 588) and tlje other at Sehcl (LErsir,s, Denhnt., iii. 20G h; Makiette, Monuments divers, pi. 71,No. 44), and the titles he assumes on both monuments show the pos
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . back (p. .^54, u. 2) relating to Thiitmosis III., and which we more usuallymeet with in the cases of those kings who were not marked out from their birth onwards for the throne. Bai has left two inscriptions behind him, one at Silsilis (Champollion, Monument, eta., pi. cxx. 4 ;, Denkm., iii. 202 a; cf. the translation of the text in Bkugsch, Gexchiclde .Kgyptens, , 588) and tlje other at Sehcl (LErsir,s, Denhnt., iii. 20G h; Makiette, Monuments divers, pi. 71,No. 44), and the titles he assumes on both monuments show the position ho occupied at the Thebancourt during the reign of Siphtah-Minejihtah. His oiriee was descrilied by E. de Rougtf (Elude surune stele de la mijiiolheque Im/i^riale, pp. 180, 187); cf. Chabas, Ueeherehes pour rkistoire de laXIX dynastir, pp. 127-129, who thought that liai had succeeded in maintaining his rights to thecrown against the claims of Amennjesis. The tomb of this queen, which she probably occupied in common with her husband, was described. 440 THE REACTION AGAINST EGYPT. least six years/ dnriug which he made an expedition into Ethiopia, andreceived in audience at Thebes messengers from all foreign nations.^ Hekept up so zealously the appearance of universal dominion, that to judge fromhis inscriptions he miist have been the equal of the most powerful of hispredecessors at Thebes. Egypt, nevertheless, was proceeding at a quick pace towards its sooner had this monarch disappeared than it began to break up.^ Therewere no doubt many claimants for the crown, but none of them succeeded in<lisposing of the claims of his rivals, and anarchy reigned supreme from one?end of the Xile valley to the other. • The land of Qimit began to drift away,and the people within it had no longer a sovereign, and this, too, for many years,until other times came; for the land of Qimit was in the hands of the princesruling over the nomes, and they put each other to death, bo
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