Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . u or Pelusium, are also represented. He is also termed the con-queror of the Sliopherds of the East; lie gains possession of the fortress of Edom, in the landof Omar or Amar, perhaps Idumaea and the Amorites, and vanquishes the Tohen, Tahno orTen-hno, one of the Japhetic races, and, apparently, the most northern people with whom the ^ Cf. Ilosel. Mon. Stor. torn. i. Tav. 110 ; Witk. Mat. Hier. and Thebes, pi. i. c. viii.; Ej. p. 145; Leemans, loc. ; liurl. Exc. Hier. \xvit. This divinity, wit
Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . u or Pelusium, are also represented. He is also termed the con-queror of the Sliopherds of the East; lie gains possession of the fortress of Edom, in the landof Omar or Amar, perhaps Idumaea and the Amorites, and vanquishes the Tohen, Tahno orTen-hno, one of the Japhetic races, and, apparently, the most northern people with whom the ^ Cf. Ilosel. Mon. Stor. torn. i. Tav. 110 ; Witk. Mat. Hier. and Thebes, pi. i. c. viii.; Ej. p. 145; Leemans, loc. ; liurl. Exc. Hier. \xvit. This divinity, with squared ears and peculiar head, is Seth, as the north-em god of the Shot, .and Noub, asthe divinity of the Nubians. lie iscalled in an inscription, Seth, tlioson of Netpe, the great Apoph (?),loving the sun (Mon. Iort. XVI. d), and the great god, king on high, lord of victory. The commencing group, Sou[t]for Seth, Leemans reads him (I)His identity with Setlios was firstproposed by Lonormant, Cours deHist. An. p. 320, n. 1. PLAT r. 3 1. f In/miulr^ Jii E B^ E IF M T &a ^ SETHEI MENEPHTAH I. 89 Egyptians were acquainted. Tlie people of Shto, Shot, or Kiiout, the supposed Scytliians orScytho-Bactrians of Chanipollion, hut, perhaps, the Cuthseans of Babylon, also fall under hisarms, and from them he derived immense spoils. Besides the destruction of the Syrian Shep-herds, he is stated to have extended the confines of the empire to the great waters of Naharainaor Mesopotamia, and on the other frontier to have prostrated the people of Phit or Libya, andthe Nubians. In one grand scene this monarch is represented bringing forty-two conquerednations and tribes: these are of the enemies or neighbours on the southern confines of Egypt,—the people of Kush or Ethiopia ; the Atro, Atlo, or Adelo, perhaps the Adulittc; the Aro-shoki,^the Amor-kraka,* the .... ouka,^ the Sroni, Slonei, or Sileni,* the Baro-baro (the renxaining shoreof the Red Sea below Meroe was called Ba
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