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

224 TRIUMPHS OF THE KING ch. x.

place at which it was [before] : this I swear. In the 8th year, in
the month Tybi, on the 9th day, the king was in Khu-aten, and
Pharaoh mounted his court-chariot of polished copper, to behold
the memorial tablets of the Sun's disk, which are on the hills in
the territory to the south-east of Khu-aten.

Two of them stand in a valley, covered with blocks
of stone and debris, in a south-easterly direction from
Tell-el-Amarna, towards Haggi Qandil, high up on the
wall of rock, at a height of 9 metres (nearly 30 feet).
The third rock-tablet, on the other hand, is on the
opposite side of the river. At Gebel Tuneh, on the
smooth face of the Libyan mountain, the same picture
and the same inscription as at the above-named places
present themselves to the eye of the traveller.

According to them, the king visited the solitary
mountain district again in his eighth year, to con-
vince himself that his orders had been obeyed. The
memorial tablets had, soon after their erection, ' tum-
bled down,' that is, had been destroyed purposely by
disaffected Egyptians, so that the king found himself
obliged to order their re-erection.

The sepulchral chambers of Tell-el-Amarna, which
received the deceased generations of the strange court
of the heretical king, show us repeatedly in their
pictures the king taking a journey in his chariot in
the bright sunshine, accompanied by his daughters,
who likewise, according to the fashion of the times,
used two-horsed and two-wheeled chariots.

In the twelfth year of his reign, on the 18th day of
the month Mekhir, Khu-n-aten celebrated his victories
over the Syrians and Oushites. He could hardly have
taken a personal part in these campaigns, but his appear-
ance at the festival of victory was none the less brilliant.
In full Pharaonic attire, adorned with the insignia of
his rank, he appears on his lion-throne, carried on the
shoulders of his warriors. At his side run servants,