The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ); cf. a passage of amore general cbaracter in the Anasta«i Papyrus HI, pi. vi. , pi. vii. (cf. MiSPERO, Du GenreEpistolaire, pp. 77, 78; Chabas, litudes sur VAntiquM, 2nd edit., pp. 219, 220). Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a pliotograph by Dereria; tbe statue is at Gizeb. Tbis passage is taken from a stele discovered by Petrie in 1896, on tbe site of tbe Amenopliium utTbebes ; cf. Flinders Petrie, in tbe Contemporary Revieic, No. 365, p. 622. Tbe mention of tbe Israiluimmediately calls to mind the place-names Yusbapb-ilu, Yako
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ); cf. a passage of amore general cbaracter in the Anasta«i Papyrus HI, pi. vi. , pi. vii. (cf. MiSPERO, Du GenreEpistolaire, pp. 77, 78; Chabas, litudes sur VAntiquM, 2nd edit., pp. 219, 220). Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a pliotograph by Dereria; tbe statue is at Gizeb. Tbis passage is taken from a stele discovered by Petrie in 1896, on tbe site of tbe Amenopliium utTbebes ; cf. Flinders Petrie, in tbe Contemporary Revieic, No. 365, p. 622. Tbe mention of tbe Israiluimmediately calls to mind the place-names Yusbapb-ilu, Yakob-ilu, on tbe lists of Tbutmosis HI.(Mariette, Karnali, pis. 17, IS, 20, Nos. 78, 102) which have been compared with the names Jacoband Joseph (GrOff, Lettre a M. Pivillout sur le noiit de Jacob ef de Joseph en i-gypte, and Une Questiondeprioritg, in the lievue Egyptologiqur, vol. iv. pp. 95-101. 146-151, and DUerses Etudes, pp. 5-8, byEd. Meyer, in tbe Zeitschri/t fiir alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 1886, pp. 1-16). THE TRIUMPH OF MfNEPBTAE. 437 Tr-^. UU; UHATELS UK II. AND MIXEPHTAH AT SILSILEH. old age prevented him from prosecuting his success; he was content, in anycase, to station bodies of pickets on the frontier, and to fortify a few new posi-tions to the east of the Delta. The Libyan kiugdom was now in the sameposition as that in which the Hittite had been after the campaign of Seti I.:its power had been checked for the moment, but it remained intact on theEgyptian frontier, awaiting its opportunity. Minephtah lived for some time after this memorable year V.,^ and thenumber of monuments which belong to this period show that he reigned inpeace. We can see that he carried out works in the same places as hisfather l)efore him ; at Tanis as well as Thebes, in Nubia as well as in theDelta. He worked the sandstone quarries for his building materials, and?continued the custom of celebrating the feasts of the inundation at at least of the stelaj which he
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