The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria (1896) (14797978443)

Identifier: struggleofnation00maspuoft (find matches)
Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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re inspired byambitions unknown to the Egyptians of earlier times. To this younger raceAfrica no longer offered a sufficiently wide or attractive field; the whole countrywas their own as far as the confluence of the two Niles, and the Tliebau gods wereworshipped at Napata no less devoutly than at Thebes itself. What remained to The copy of the letter which hag come down to U3 Is addressed to the commander of Elephantiufi :hence the mention of the gods of that town. Tlie mimes of tlie divinities must have been altered tosuit each district, to which the order to ofler sacritices for tlie prosiierity of the new sovereignwas sent. ^ Ostracon from tlio Oizeh Museum, published by Erman, Bundschreiben Thulmoait 1 an dieDehiirdim mil der Anseiije seines lleijifrumjuintriUo, in the Zeitscliri/t, vol. xxi.\. pp. IIO-IIS. Drawn by Fauchcr-Gudin, from the photograph taljen in 1882 by Kniil Urugsch-Boy. * A misinterpreted passage of Gazzera (Detcritione dei Monumenti Egixi del liegio Muieo, p. 23,
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^ lULTMu-l^ I., IBuil A STATUE IN THE GIZEU MUSElil, 106 TEE BEOINNINQ OF THE XVIIF DYNASTY. he conquered in that direction was scarcely worth the trouble of reducing toa province or of annexing as a colony ; it comprised a number of tribes hope-lessly divided among themselves, and consequently, in spite of their renownedbravery, without power of resistance. Light columns of troops, drafted atintervals on either side of the river, ensured order among the submissive, ordespoiled the refractory of their possessions in cattle, slaves, and precious stones.Thutmosis I. had to repress, however, very shortly after his accession, a revoltof these borderers at the second and third cataracts, but they were easily over-come in a campaign of a few days duration, in which the two Ahmosis ofEl-Kab took an honourable part. There was, as usual, an encounter of thetwo fleets in the middle of the river: the young king himself attacked theenemys chief, pierced him with his first arrow, and made a consid