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

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dyn. xtiii. KHU-N-ATEN'S FAMILY 225

who with their long fans wave the cool air upon their
heated lord.

We know nothing more precise either as to the
direction or the duration of the campaigns in the North
and South thus announced in general terms. Only
the pictures and inscriptions of the king on the propyla
of the Temple of Amen at Soleb lead us to suppose
that the warriors of Khu-n-aten must have gone thus
far on their campaign against the South. There is also
a remarkable monument in the Egyptian collection at
Lej^den, on which Hor-em-heb (who was afterwards
king), in his character as the first official of his then
reigning lord, causes the prisoners of all nations to
be brought before his lord by the servants of the king.
Stupid negroes, sly Syrians, and small-featured Mar-
niaridas (whose women lead horses by the bridles as
presents), form the chief members of the motley,
cringing, submissive assemblage of foreigners before
the king's throne.

The king, as we have seen, died without male issue.
Of his daughters, the eldest had married a certain
Saa-nekht; the third, Ankh-nes-pa-aten, or, as she was
obliged to call herself later in honour of Amen, Ankh-
nes-Amen, was married to the noble lord Tut-ankh-
Amen; while the sister of the queen Neferit-Thi, whose
name was Net'em-mut, became the spouse of the later
king, Hor-em-heb.

The husbands of all these princesses became kings.
Among the first was Tut-ankh-Amen, whose viceroys
in the south were the same Hi and Amenhotep who
had already held that office under Amen-hotep ELI.
It is only under King Ai that we find a new governor,
of the same name, Ai, whose son Amenape afterwards,
under Seti I., takes the place of his father.

The succession of the kings, to whose combined

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