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)

chap, xiv.] HIS RECORD AT THE TEMPLE. 249

is well and deeply cut, instead of being simply
scratched on the granite.

There was also an alabaster statue of Sheshanq
in the temple, for we found in 1896 (Trench A) a
shoulder and part of an arm of a statue, about half
the size of life, the latter fragment being inscribed
with the name of Sheshanq's eldest son Uapt, called
"justified son of the Lord of the two lands Sheshanq
beloved of Amen " (p. 349).

From other sources it appears that Uapt was
" high priest of Amen-Ra" and " general of the
soldiers" (p. 350), being thus strengthened in his
position as king's son by holding high military rank
and the chief sacerdotal office at Thebes.

Of most of the later kings of the dynasty we
know little. Though several left records at Karnak
their building activities were mainly occupied in the
Delta, and especially centred on their own city
Bubastis, where the festival hall of Usarken wit-
nesses, by the fragments of statues built into its
walls, the ruin of earlier days.

With Sheshanq IV., last king of the 22nd dynasty, B-c- 789-
we find some revival of the martial spirit, but his
campaigns in the south and in Asia could not save
the doomed dynasty. The dismemberment of the
empire had laid it open to attack, and it was from
the south that the conqueror came.