The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . y Chabas,Recherchespour Ihistoire de IEgypte sous la XIX dynastie, pp. 6-23, 135, 137. * The name of this indiridual, which was wrongly read by Eisenlohr (^Der Grosse Papyrus Harris,p. 3), was deciphered by C\(^Recherches, etc., sous la XIX dynastie, p. 17) ; Lauth (Siphfhao undAmenmeses, p. 63), and after him Krall (Maiietlto und Diodor, pp. 41-43), were inclined to read it asKet, Ketesh, in order to identify it with the Ketes of Diodorus Siculus (i. 62). A form of the name-Vrisai in the Bible (Esther ix. 9) may be its original, o
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . y Chabas,Recherchespour Ihistoire de IEgypte sous la XIX dynastie, pp. 6-23, 135, 137. * The name of this indiridual, which was wrongly read by Eisenlohr (^Der Grosse Papyrus Harris,p. 3), was deciphered by C\(^Recherches, etc., sous la XIX dynastie, p. 17) ; Lauth (Siphfhao undAmenmeses, p. 63), and after him Krall (Maiietlto und Diodor, pp. 41-43), were inclined to read it asKet, Ketesh, in order to identify it with the Ketes of Diodorus Siculus (i. 62). A form of the name-Vrisai in the Bible (Esther ix. 9) may be its original, or that of Arish which is found in Plicenician•especially Punic, inscriptions (Noldeke, Phonizische Inschrift, in the Zeitschri/t fUr Assyrioloqievol. ix. pp. 403, 404). ° Tlie Great Harris Papyrus, ed. by Birch, pi. 75, II. 2-6; Chaisas, Recherches, etc., sous la XXdynastie, pp. 6-23; Eisexlohr-Birch, Annals of Ramses III., in the Records of the Past 1st teriesvol. viii. p. 46, and Brugsch, Geschichte JEgyptcns, p. 589. FOREIGN CAPTIVES IN EGYPT. 441. The invasions of tlie peoples of the sea, the rivalry of the claimants to thethrone, and tiie intrigues of ministers had, one after the other, served to break thebonds which fettered them, and in one generation they were able to regain thatliberty of action of which they had been deprived for centuries. To this stateof things Egypt had been diiftiug from the earliest times. Unity could bemaintained only by a continuous effort, and once this became relaxed, the tieswhich bound tlie whole country togetherwere soon broken. There was anotherdanger threatening the country beside thatarising from the weakening of tlie hands oftiie sovereign, and the turbulence of thebarons. For some three centuries the ThebanPharaohs were accustomed to bring intothe country after each victorious campaignmany thousands of captives. The numberof foreigners around them had, therefore, in-creased in a striking manner. The majorityof these strangers eithe
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