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

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his master to be decorated with a gold necklace as a
reward for honest and successful service. For a cam-
paign had just been brought to a close, which had
subjected the revolted negro tribes anew to the sceptre
■of Egypt. In its principal battle, Eamses appeared in
his chariot. His son named above, and his pious
brother Khamuas, accompanied him.

Here is another court of the king in the South. At
his feet lies his faithful attendant, the lion Smam-
kheftu-f, ' the tearer to pieces of his enemies,' and there
his son, who, accompanied by Egyptian warriors, brings
to the Pharaoh some captive Khar-Phoenicians, without
doubt for the purpose of being employed as workmen
on the buildings which Eamses was erecting there.

Prisoners of the Canaanite and Libyan tribes were
also employed on the erection of buildings. His own
words declare of his victories, ' that henceforth sand is
in their dwellings, instead of the fruits of the earth.'
Accompanied by one of his sons, he took their chief
■city, the ' miserable king' of which declares to Sesostris,
'No other is to be compared to Baal as thou art. Thou,
0 kins?, art his true son for ever.'

Eamses seems to have subjugated only small tribes
■of Ethiopia and Libya in his campaigns into the interior
of the country. Their names are mentioned incidentally
on several monuments : thus the memorial stone of Abu
Simbel cites the Auntom, Hebuu, Tenfu, Temuu, and
Hetau, whom the Memphite god Totunen delivers as
subjects into the hands of his son Eamses. The monu-
ments mention as ' king's sons of Cush' the Egyptian
lords Pauer ; Amen-em-ape, son of Pauer; Setuan (who
was also entrusted with the administration of the gold-
mines), Amen-em-heb, Nekhtu, and Massui. In order
to increase his revenues, Eamses turned his attention to
the gold districts, and especially to the Nubian mines of