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

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164 INSCRIPTION OP AMENEMHEB ch. viii.-

. . . ha. When it happened another time, (18) I mounted up to-
the [. . .]•

(19) Again I admired his strength against the land of Takhis,.
which is situated on the shore (?) of Lake Nesru. (20) I fought
hand to hand on it before the king. I carried off three men of the-
Aamu as living prisoners. Then my lord gave me (21) golden
rewards of honour : namely, 2 golden collars, 4 rings 2 helmets, a.
lion, and a slave.

(22) Again [I admired] another extraordinary deed, which the
lord of the country performed in the neighbourhood of Ni.1 He-
hunted 120 elephants for the sake of their tusks on [his chariot.?]
(23) I encountered the greatest among them, which attacked his
Majesty. I cut through his trunk. Being still alive [(24) he-
pursued me]. Then I went into the water, between two rocks..
Then my royal lord rewarded me with a golden gift : (25) namely,.
[. . .], and with three dresses.

Then when the king of Kadesh sent forward a horse (26) with
the head of a [. . .], which dashed in among the warriors, then I
ran after him (27) on foot, holding my dagger, and ripped up his
belly. I cut off its tail and gave (28) it to the king. Praise on the
part of the divine one for this. The joy which he bestowed filled,
my body, and pleasure thrilled through my limbs.

(29) His Majesty caused the bravest of his warriors to go-
before. The fortress was to be broken into, which the inhabitants
of Kadesh had newly erected. I was he (30) who broke into it. I
was the leader of all the brave men ; no other did it before me.
I went on, I brought back of the nobles (31) two men as living
prisoners. My royal lord renewed his thanks to me for this by
(32) splendid gifts of every sort. Contentment was with the king.

I achieved these battles while I was a captain. Then [he com-
manded that] (33) I should be the person to arrange the sails [on
his ship. And] I was the first of his suite (34) in the voyage on.
the river [in honour of Amen] at his splendid festival in Thebes.
The inhabitants were full of joy [on that account]. (35) Lo ! the-
king finished his course of life, after many years, glorified by con-
quests and by [victory ....], (36) and by triumphs, beginning-
from the 1st year, down to the last day of the month Phamenoth,
of the king of Upper and Lower Egypt, (37) Men-khepek-Ra
Tehuti-mes, the justified. Then he flew up to heaven, when the disk
of the sun went down. The successor of a god joined himself to his-
parent.

When now the earth became light and the morning (38) broke,
the disk of the sun rose, and the heaven grew clear, then was the

1 A town in the land of Naharain often confounded with Nineveh.
 
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