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

198 TEHUTI-MES IV. ci-r. ex.

artistic perfection of the sculptures, or for the import-
ance of its*inscriptions.

Among this king's contemporaries must be men-
tioned his son Khamus, and the governor of the
nations of the South, a certain Usati; as also the high-
priest of the goddess Nekheb at Eileithyiapolis, who,
as such, bore the distinguished title of a ' first king's
son of Nekheb.'

Men-kheperu-Ka Tehuti-mes IV., surnamed Kha-khau.

B.C. 1533 CIR.

On his memorial tombstone, now in the British

Museum, a certain Amenhotep, servant and soldier of

Tehuti-mes IV., relates that

he accompanied the king on his campaigns against the people of
the South and of the North, travelling with his Majesty from the
river land of Naharain to the Karu.

We have here a proof that Tehuti-mes IV. sought
to uphold the greatness and power of the empire by
conflicts against unruly tribes and subjects. The fur-
thest limits of his campaigns, Naharain in the North,
Karu in the South, allow us to form an idea of the
unusual activity of the king. Unfortunately no docu-
ment, giving us information on the details of these
campaigns, has survived the ravages of time. A frag-
ment in the temple of Amen at Apet mentions ' the
first campaign of the king against the land of Kheta.'
A rock inscription on the little island of Konosso, in
the midst of the boiling floods of the First Cataract of
the Nile, bearing as an introduction the date of the
year 7, the month Athyr, day 8, relates how the
Libyan deities had given the nomad tribes of the Annu
and all lands into .the power of the king. Another
inscription, in the temple at Amada, gives the same
sort of general information about victories of the king