Benson, Margaret; Gourlay, Janet: The temple of Mut in Asher: an account of the excavation of the temple and of the religious representations and objects found therein, as illustrating the history of Egypt and the main religious ideas of the Egyptians (London, 1899)

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roads ye name, and let him of you who will follow
my Majesty. For they [namely, the enemy], abomi-
nated of Ra, consider thus : ' Has his Majesty gone
on another road? Then he fears us.' Thus do
they consider."

Then they said to his Majesty: "As lives thy
father Amen-Ra, lord of the thrones of the two lands,
who dwells in Thebes, who has made thee, behold,
we follow thy Majesty wheresoever thy Majesty goes,
even as servants follow their master." Into the
narrow defile accordingly the army marched, the
king himself leading the single line, as he had sworn,
" Xot a man shall go forth before my Majesty."

When the head of the army issued from the
ravine and began to come out into the plain, they
fell in with outposts of the enemy, set as a pre-
caution to watch the hill road. The insight of
Thothmes was fully justified, for the main body was
watching in two divisions the roads which wound
round the base of the mountain. These outposts
were soon put to flight, and now the Egyptian rear-
guard, still entano-led, sent to beo" for the kino-'s
personal help. " Let our powerful lord listen to us
this time, and let our lord keep for us the rear of his
army, and the people." So the king turned back and
stood sentinel for his soldiers, struggling with the new
and bewildering difficulties of a rugged mountain
path, through all the time required for the passage.
" When the van had come forth on this road, the
shadow turned, and when his Majesty came to the