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

Drs. xviii. ITATSIIEPSU'S OBELISK AT KABNAK 149

Hathor, in which the king of Punt and his nobles _took
part. Hatshepsu's reign was not weakened by external
enemies. In the East the Canaanite kings left Egypt
unmolested, and rather showed their friendly feeling by
sending the tribute imposed upon them, and in the South
the governors delivered to the court the products
of their country. In the meantime Tehuti-mes grew up
to manhood, and according to the Egyptian lav claimed
a share in the throne, which his sister could not
withhold from him; and, yielding to force, she placed
beside her on the throne, as associate king, the rightful
heir to the crown and lineal representative of the
royal house. With deep rancour in his heart Tehu-
ti-mes III. assumed the royal dignity.

His first exercise of kingly power bears the date of
the year 15, on the 27th day of the month Pakhons.

A rock-tablet at Wady-Magharah exhibits the two
sovereigns, Hatshepsu and Tehuti-mes HI., united in
presenting their offerings to Sopt and Hathor, the pro-
tecting deities of the district. The inscription begins
with the date of the year 16. A year previously a
work had been begun which claims attention for two
reasons. On the plinth of one of the obelisks of rose
granite, with which the queen adorned the great temple
at Karnak, there is an historical statement, the chief
contents of which are as follows. The woman-king—
to translate by an approximate phrase the masculine
style in which the queen speaks of herself—had cut out
the work in question from the wall of rock in the ' red
mountain' of Aswan, and had raised it in its place in
the inconceivably short space of seven months, namely,
from the first day of the month Mekhir of the 15th
year of her reign to the last of Mesori of the following
16th year. If such was the case, the commencement
of the first year of her reign must have fallen in the