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

btn. xix. VICTORIES IN CANAAN 279

the battle against the town of the hostile Kheta at the head of his
warriors, and of his [chariots. His] armour was upon him. And
the king came again to take his armour, and to put it on. [And he
utterly smote] the hostile Kheta, who were in the neighbourhood of
the city of Tunep in the land of Naharain. After that he no more
put on his armour.

In the eighth year we again find the king in the
land of Canaan, where the inhabitants had so angered
Pharaoh that he went against them, captured their fort-
resses, and carried away their king and elders and all
men capable of bearing arms to Egypt. The represen-
tation of this victory is on the northern gate-tower on
the west side of Karnak. Against every fortress is
Written, ' This is the city which the king took in the
eighth year,' to which the particular designation of the
place was added. In what has been preserved we can
make out the names : Shalama (that is, the town of
peace), the place Salem, or Saleim, to the south of
Scythopolis; Maroma, that is, Merom; Ain-Anamim,
that is, Anim or Engannim ; ' Dapur in the land of the
Amorites,' the well-known fortress on Mount Tabor;
' the town Kalopu, on the mountain of Beitha-Antha,'
that is, the Beth-anath of Scripture, in the land of
Cabul.

That Kamses was the ruler ' of the foreign peoples
of Singara and Kheta' is proved by the list of conquered
places on his monuments at Thebes. They correspond
entirely with those taken by Tehuti-mes III. The wars
against the cities of Canaan called into play all the
military activity of Earns es II., and his storming of
Askalon appeared to the Egyptians so great an exploit
as to merit a detailed representation on the temple at
Karnak. Askalon was in a fertile district on the coast
of the Mediterranean, and although strongly fortified
belonged sometimes to the Syrians and sometimes to the
Egyptians. The king in his war-chariot personally