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

278 THE POEM OF PENTADR OH. xn.

' Excellent, excellent is that ! Let thy anger pass away, O
great lord our king ! He who does not accept peace must offer it-
"Who would content thee in the day of thy wrath ?'

Then the king gave order to listen to the words of him (the
king of Kheta), and he let his hands rest, in order to return to the
south. Then the king went in peace to the land of Egypt with his-
princes, with his army, and his charioteers, in serene humour, in
the sight of his [people]. All countries feared the power of the-
king, as of the lord of both the worlds. It had [protected] his own
warriors. All peoples came at his name, and their kings fell down
to pray before his beautiful countenance. The king reached the
city of Ramses Meri-Amen, the great worshipper of Ra-Horemkhur
and rested in his palace in the most serene humour, just like the sun
on his throne. And Amen came to greet him, speaking thus to
him : ' Be thou blessed, thou our son, whom we love, Ramses Meri-
Amen ! May they (the gods) secure to him without end many
thirty-years' feasts of jubilee for ever on the chair of his father
Tmu, and may all lands be under his feet!'

The battles of Eamses II. in Syria must have taken
place previous to the battle of Kadesh; for the three
rock-tablets near Beyrut, which were as well known to-
the Greek travellers in the fifth century B.C. as they are
in our own day, testify to his presence at this very
place in the second year and first campaign, and in the
fifth year and second campaign of his reign. After
peace had been made with the Kheta their frontiers
were spared, although several cities could not prevail
upon themselves to acknowledge the Egyptian supre-
macy. In one of these—' Tunep, in the land of Naharain r
—the opposition of the populace assumed such a serious
aspect that Eamses was obliged to go in person against
the town. The memorial inscription records that

[there arose a new ?] war, which was against a city of Kheta, in
which the two - statues of Pharaoh were set up. The king had
reduced them [under his power. Then the king assembled] his
warriors and his chariots, and gave orders to his warriors and his
chariots [to attack] the hostile Kheta, who were in the neighbour-
hood of the city of Tunep, in the land of Naharain. And the king
put on his armour [and mounted his chariot]. He stood there in