. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . en the Theban Pharaohs had theupper hand, and were possibly already masters of Siût ; under these circumstances it would have beenimpolitic to complete a record of how the victors had been ill-treated by Khiti. 3 I have adopted the 185 years which Lepsitjs ÇKSnigsbuch, pp. 56, 57) showed to be the mostreasonable of Manethos estimates for the duration of the second Heracleopolitan dynasty. 4 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin from the original, now in the Museum of the Louvre; cf. Maspero,Notes au jour le jour, § 10, in the Proceedings of the Society of Bibl
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . en the Theban Pharaohs had theupper hand, and were possibly already masters of Siût ; under these circumstances it would have beenimpolitic to complete a record of how the victors had been ill-treated by Khiti. 3 I have adopted the 185 years which Lepsitjs ÇKSnigsbuch, pp. 56, 57) showed to be the mostreasonable of Manethos estimates for the duration of the second Heracleopolitan dynasty. 4 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin from the original, now in the Museum of the Louvre; cf. Maspero,Notes au jour le jour, § 10, in the Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archxology, vol. xiii. p. palette is of wood, and bears the name of a contemporary personage ; the outlines of the hiero-glyphs are inlaid with silver wire. It was ,probably found in the necropolis of Meîr, a little to thenorth of Siût. The sepulchral pyramid of the Pharaoh Mirikarî is mentioned on a coffiu in theBerlin Museum (Maspero, Notes au jour le jour, § 10, in the Proceedings of the S. B. A., vol. 524, 525).. TEE KINGS OF TEE XI™ DYNASTY AND TEEIR BUILDINGS. 459 remained in their The tribes of the desert, tho Amaniiû, theMâzaiû, and the Ûaûaiû often disturbed the husbandmen by their sudden raids ;yet, having pillaged a district, they did not take possession of it as conquerors,but hastily returned to their mountains. The Theban princes kept them incheck by repeated counter-raids, and renewed the old treaties with them. Theinhabitants of the Great Oasis in the west,2 and the migratory peoples of theLand of the Gods, recognized the Theban suzerainty on the traditional in the times of Uni, thebarbarians made up the com-plement of the army withsoldiers who were more inuredto hardships and more accus-tomed to the use of arms thanthe ordinary fellahîn; andseveral obscure Pharaohs—such as Monthotpû I. andAntûf III.—owed their boasted victories over Libyans and Asiatics1 tothe energy of their mercenaries. But the
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