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

bys. XVIII. AMEN-HOTEP II. 195

those leagues of the towns spring up, which sought by
united action to withdraw themselves from subjection
to Egypt. A monument, now very much injured, at
one of the southern wings of the temple of Amen, in
Apet, contains an exact record of the campaign which
Amen-hotep II. undertook for the punishment of the
rebels in the Upper Euthen, and it ended victoriously.
Seven kings were taken prisoners in the town of
Thakhis, and were brought to Egypt.

From what this great historical inscription enables
us to learn, in spite of its lacunas, the war against
Asia was this time a war of vengeance in the fullest
sense of the word. The several towns were visited in
succession, thoroughly pillaged, and the booty regis-
tered. AH that can be made out as to the names of
the towns is confined to the fortresses of Arinath, M,
■and Akerith, and to the mention of the king of JSFaha-
?ain. The campaign, therefore, extended pretty far
towards the north. The town of M, one of the most
important in the land of JSTaharain, appears to have
surrendered to the Egyptians without any serious
defence, for

"the Asiatics, inhabitants of this town, both men and women, stood
above on their walls to glorify the king.

Akerith, on the contrary, proved obstinate, for

it had formed the resolution of driving out the garrison of
Pharaoh.

The booty which the king brought back to Egypt
cannot have been insignificant. Among the prisoners
(of whom the king had taken 18, together with 19
oxen, with his own hand) there were, besides others,
t»40 merchants, who were carried away, together with
their servants. The Nubian temple at Amada, which
the kino- furnished and decorated, has a memorial
tablet let into the wall of one of the inner chambers,