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

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116 THE TAA oh. vi..

'(33) His Majesty was furious against them like a panther,
and his Majesty shot his first arrow, which remained sticking in the
body of this enemy. He (34) fell down fainting before the asp (on
the royal diadem). A [great defeat] took place there in a short
time, and their people were carried away as living captives, (35) and
his Majesty travelled downwards. All nations were in his power.
And this miserable king of the Nubian people (Anti) was bound on
the fore part of the ship of his Majesty, and he was placed on the-
ground (36) in the city of Thebes.

'After this his Majesty betook himself to the land of Rutennu,
to slake his anger among the inhabitants of the land. His Majesty
reached the land of Naharain. (37) His Majesty—life, strength,
and wealth to him !—found these enemies. He set the battle in
array. His Majesty made a great slaughter among them. (38) In-
numerable was the crowd of living prisoners which his Majesty
carried away after his victory. And behold, I was at the head of
our warriors. His Majesty admired my valour. (39) I carried off
a chariot of war and its horses, and those who were upon it, as
living prisoners, and brought them to his Majesty. Then was I
presented with gold once *nore.

' (40) Now I have lived many days and have reached a grey old
age. My lot will be that of all men upon the earth. [I shall go
down to the nether world, and be placed in the] coffin, which I have
had made for myself.'

The grievous time of distress and oppression was.
now past : the reign of tyranny was broken up ; Avaris
had fallen, and the fortress of Sherohan had been
taken by storm. In the sixth year of the reign of King
Aahmes, the founder of the Eighteenth Dynasty of the
Pharaohs, Kamit was freed from the long oppression of
the foreigners. Seqenen-Ea was the third king of this
name; he also bore in common, with his two predeces-
sors the family name of Taa. The inscriptions dis-
tinguish them, however, by special surnames, so that
Taa II. was known by the addition of Aa, or ' the
great,' and Taa III. by the epithet Ken, ' the brave or
victorious.' They were buried in Thebes, and there-
fore must probably have reigned in that city, an opinion
which the Abbot Papyrus strengthens.1

1 See Royal Mummies of Dcir-el-Bahari, p. 361.
 
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