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

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am xviii. CAMPAIGNS IN WESTERN. ASIA 165

king Amen-hotep II. (may he live for ever !) (39) placed in the seat
■of his father, and he took possession of the throne. The greatest
fulness of strength was his. For the foreign [inhabitants] (40)
of the Red Land (Tesherit) and their chiefs had he subdued. Ap-
pearing like Horus, the son of Isis, he took possession [of Egypt.
'(41) And the inhabitants of this land] and they who dwell in the
'land of Kenemti (the Oasis Magna), and all people bowed down
before him. Their gifts were on their backs, (42) [while they]
begged [of him] the breath of life.

Then it was that his Majesty looked on me during the festive
voyage that he celebrated on the ship, (43) the name of which was
Kha-em-ua-suten.' I [conducted the disembarkation] at the splen-
did festival of joy of the Southern Thebes, in observance of the
Prescribed order [of the festival]. (44) Then they took me up into
the interior of the king's house, and I was made to stand before
[the king, and they spake before him], Aa-kheperu-Ra, (45) concern-
ing my merit. Then I fell down forthwith before his Majesty.
And he spake to me thus :

' I know thy worth. I lay still yet in the cradle as [the child]
°f the [deceased] lord of the land (46) when thou didst [already]
serve my father. Let an office be granted to thee by my order.
Be from this time forth a commander (Adon) of the army. In
Pursuance of what I have said, watch over the brave troops of the
king.'

The commander Mah accomplished all that he had said.

The brave captain had evidently several campaigns
hi view in his account. But the first certainly formed
"the chief part of his own history. On his return home
our hero had the honour of conducting, in his own
person, the holy ship of Amen ' on his journey (to
Thebes) to his splendid festival,' allusion no doubt to
the same festival which Tehuti-mes III. had mentioned
in his record of his donations, and which fell on the
14th day of the month Paophi.

An examination of the tablet of victory which re-
lates the campaigns of the king, from the first battle of
Megiddo onwards, leads us to the certain conviction,
that, from the 23rd to the 40th year of his reign,
Tehuti-mes III. undertook fifteen campaigns against the
inhabitants of Western Asia. So far as the fragments
 
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