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

Em xxii. TAKELETH II. 381

the same royal family. The monuments are absolutely
silent concerning his history. He was followed by

TAKELETH II. CIR. B.C. 800.

Takeleth II. married Mer-mut Keromama Set-Amen
-Mut-em-hat, a daughter of Na-ro-math, high-priest of
Amen. Their eldest son is designated in the inscrip-
tions as high-priest of the Theban Amen, and com-
mander-in-chief of the military force of the whole land,
and he was at the same time a petty king. He is the
Uasarken of whom so much is related on a long memorial
tablet in the interior of the Hall of the Bubastites.
This account begins with the date of the 9th of the
month Tehuti in the 12th regnal year of his father.
-From it we learn that the prince Uasarken went to
-Thebes in his character of high-priest of Amen, to enter
on bis office of subjecting the Theban temple and its
territory to a careful examination and restoring the
offerings to the god :—

When now had arrived the 15th year, the month Mesori, the
25th day, under the reign of his father, the lordly Horus, the god-
like prince of Thebes, the heaven could not be distinguished, the
''noon was eclipsed (literally, was horrible), for a sign of the (coming)
events in this land ; as it also happened, for enemies (literally, the
children of revolt) invaded with war the southern and northern
districts (of Egypt).

I have not the slightest doubt that the foregoing
Words have reference to the irruptions of the Ethio-
pians from the South and to the attack of the Assyrian
power from the North. The rest of the inscription
supposes the return, however temporary, of a period of
rest for Egypt. The priest-king Uasarken used this
respite to evince his devotion to Amen and to his
temple. The sacrifices were established in such a
manner that certain sums of money were put aside for