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his flight heavenwards towards Egypt. (25) When he awoke he
was lame. Then spake he to the prophet of Khonsu, the adminis-
trator, of Thebes : ' This god he staid among us, and now he with-
draws to Egypt. His carriage must return to Egypt.' (26) Then
the king of Bakhtan had the god drawn back to Egypt, and gave'
him very many presents of all sorts of good things, and they
arrived safely at Thebes. Then went Khonsu, the administrator, of
Thebes, (27) into the temple of Khonsu of Thebes, the kind and'
friendly, and he laid down the presents just as the king of Bakh-
tan had presented them to him, namely, all kinds of good things,,
before Khonsu of Thebes, the kind and friendly ; he kept nothing
of them for his house. But Khonsu, the administrator, of Thebes,
(28) returned happily to his house in the 33rd year, in the month of
Mekhir, on the 13th day, of King Ra-messu Meri-Amen. Such was-
what happened to him ; to him, the dispenser of life to-day and for

It is difficult to say where the land of Bakhtan
should be sought. A journey of seventeen months;
from Thebes to the foreign city shows that it was very
distant. The (doubtful ?) stay of Ea-messu XII. in the-
riverland of Naharain suggests a Syrian town. Pro-
bably the town referred to may be Bakhi or Bakh,
which is mentioned in the lists of the victories of
Ea-messu m. and earlier kings as a conquered place.

With his successor,

Mbn-Maat-Ea-sotep-en Ea, Ea-messu (XIII.) meei-
Amen (cm. b.c. noo),

we seem to have arrived at the end of this Dynasty,,
although it is proved by the monuments that some
Eamessides, as petty kings, put forward their claim to
the throne, even in the time of the foreign conqueror,.
Shashanq I. They did so with little success, for the
chief priests of the god Amen had already placed the

1 This story has long been known priests, and written for the purpose-
as that of ' The Possessed Princess of of the glorification of Khonsu. It is;
Bakhtan,' and until lately was con- of much later date than the period'
sidered authentic. It has now been to which it purports to belong,
shown to be a legend of the Egyptian