Brugsch, Heinrich: Egypt under the pharaohs: a history derived entirely from the monuments (London, 1891)

110 SEQENEN-EA AND APEPI ch. vi.

Page I. (1) ' It came to pass that the land of Kamit belonged
to the enemies. And nobody was lord in the day when that hap-
pened. At that time there was indeed a king Seqenen-Ra, but he
was only a Haq of the city of the South, but the enemies sat in
the town of the Aamu, and (2) Apepi was king (Ur) in the city of
Avaris. And the whole world brought him its productions, also
the North country did likewise with all the good things of Ta-
mera. And the king Apepi (3) chose the god Set for his divine
lord, and he did not serve any of the gods which were worshipped
in the whole land. He built him a temple of glorious work, to
last for ages [. . . And the king] (4) Apepi [appointed] feasts
[and] days to offer [the sacrifices] at every season to the god
Sutekh.'

Seqenen-Ea had, according to all appearance, in-
curred the special displeasure of the tyrant of Avaris,
who designed to hurl him from his throne, and sought
for a pretext to carry out his intention.

Before this there had evidently been an interchange
of letters between them, in which the latter, among
other things, required of the former to give up his own
gods, and to worship Sutekh alone. Seqenen-Ea had
declared himself prepared for all, but had added a
proviso to his letter, in which he expressly declared
that he was not able to pledge his assent to serve ' any
other of the gods that were worshipped in the whole
country, but Amen-Ea, the king of the gods, alone.'

This new message to the Haq of the southern city
had been drawn up by a council and approved of
by King Apepi. The papyrus relates this in these
words:—

Many clays later, after these events King Apepi sent to the
governor of the city in the South country this lr ^ssage (...)
which his scribes had drawn up for him, and the messenger of King
Apepi betook himself to the governor of the city of the South.
And (the messenger) was brought before the governor of the city in
the South country. He spake thus when he spoke to the messenger
of King Apepi : ' Who hath sent thee hither to the city of the
South 1 How art thou come, in order to spy out V ;'•'