Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . Fig. 41.—The town walls of Dapur. of fortification. The nomads of southern Syria erected small forts to which they could retreat when threatened with invasion (fig. 40). The Canaanite and Hittite cities,such as Ascalon,Dapur, and Merom,were surrounded bymassive walls, gene-rally built of stone,and flanked bytowers (fig. 41).Cities built on plains,such as Qodshu(Kadesh), were en-trenched behind a double foss filled with water (fig. 42). The Pharaohs introduced into the Nile valle
Manual of Egyptian archæology and guide to the study of antiquities in EgyptFor the use of students and travellers . Fig. 41.—The town walls of Dapur. of fortification. The nomads of southern Syria erected small forts to which they could retreat when threatened with invasion (fig. 40). The Canaanite and Hittite cities,such as Ascalon,Dapur, and Merom,were surrounded bymassive walls, gene-rally built of stone,and flanked bytowers (fig. 41).Cities built on plains,such as Qodshu(Kadesh), were en-trenched behind a double foss filled with water (fig. 42). The Pharaohs introduced into the Nile valley some of these new types, whose value they had learnt during their campaign. From the beginning of the Nineteenth Dynasty, the eastern frontier of the Delta, the weakest point of Egyptian defences, was protected by a series of block- houses similar to those of Canaan. Not content with appropriating the actual thing, the Egyptians also adopted the name and called these v/atch-towers by the Semitic name of luagadilfc. Fig. 42. -City of Kadesh, from bas-reliet,Ramesseum. MEDINET HABO. 39 (migdols). Brick did not appear to be sufficientlystrong for towns exposed to incursions of Asiatics,and the walls of Heliopolis and Memphis were now-cased in stone. Nothing now re-mains of these new fortifications,and we should be forced to turnto pictured representations tolearn the appearance of thesemigdols, were it not that, owingto royal caprice, we possess amodel in a place where we Fig. 43.—Plan of theshould least expect to find it— Pf^;iion of Medinet ^ Habu. in the Theban necropolis. When Rameses III. planned his funerary temple(figs. 43, 44) he decided to commemorate his Syrianvictories by giving it a military appearance. On theeastern side is a battlcmented covering wall of
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