The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . Qodshii. = The whole of this description is talien from the pictures of camp-life in the time of Ramses II.,at Luxor and the Ramesseum (Champollion, Monuments, pis. xvii. his, xxix., xxx); some of themare reproduced on pp. 222, 221 of the present volume. ThCitmosis III. camped successively in the town of Gaza, in tlie villages of Yurza and Yulima,and in the plain near Megiddo (Maspeiio, Uifcit dc la camimgne contre Mageddo sous ThoiUmos the Itecueil de Travaux, vol. ii. pp. 00, 51, 55).l 222 TEE EIGETEENTH TEEBAN DYNASTY. of thi
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . Qodshii. = The whole of this description is talien from the pictures of camp-life in the time of Ramses II.,at Luxor and the Ramesseum (Champollion, Monuments, pis. xvii. his, xxix., xxx); some of themare reproduced on pp. 222, 221 of the present volume. ThCitmosis III. camped successively in the town of Gaza, in tlie villages of Yurza and Yulima,and in the plain near Megiddo (Maspeiio, Uifcit dc la camimgne contre Mageddo sous ThoiUmos the Itecueil de Travaux, vol. ii. pp. 00, 51, 55).l 222 TEE EIGETEENTH TEEBAN DYNASTY. of this was then entirely faced with shields, square below, but circular in shapeat the top. The entrance to the camp was by a single gate in one of the longersides, and a plank served as a bridge across the trench, close to which twodetachments mounted guard, armed with clubs and naked swords. The royalquarters were situated at one end of the camp. Here, within an enclosure,rose an immense tent, where the Pharaoh found all the luxury to which he i.,.^..pmi^. IB^ L^W^% ^ 4- 1; t ,
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