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btn. -sxv. TEFNEKHT 389
quiring full possession of Thebes, the city out of which
Shashanq I. had chased them so ignominiously. The
loss of the city of Amen was to them equivalent to
suffering a conquest.
As in Lower Egypt the foreign rulers were content
'With drawing a tribute from the petty kings, so in
■tatoris and Middle Egypt petty kings or vassals were
Set up by the Ethiopians, whose supremacy these
Pnnces had to recognise, and to pay their taxes.
Thus the great kingdom of Kamit was split up into
httle dependent states, which leant, now on Ethiopia,
uow on Assyria as each foreign master gained prepon-
derance for the time.
About the year 766 B.C. a revolt broke out under
an enterprising petty king of Sais and Memphis, by
name Tefnbkht, the Technactis or Tnephachthus of
classic writers. Profiting by the momentary weakness of
tne Assyrian Empire, he prevailed on the other princes
°i Lower Egypt to join him, and made an inroad with his
whole force upon Middle Egypt, where the Egyptian
^assals of Piankhi at once submitted to him. The
hidings having reached Piankhi, he forthwith sent orders
0 his generals to check the advance of Tefnekht, and
so to force the bold petty king to beat a retreat.
Subjoined is a translation of the memorial stone of
lankhi, discovered several years ago at Mount Barkal.
■•us monument, a granite block covered with writing,
Was set up there by the Ethiopian king Piankhi, in
Remembrance of his conquest of Middle and Lower
gypt, and will show, far better than any description,
le several stages of the Ethiopian expedition, and the
Peculiar position of the Egyptian petty kings. Of these
e give a list according to the account furnished by
tue stone :—
quiring full possession of Thebes, the city out of which
Shashanq I. had chased them so ignominiously. The
loss of the city of Amen was to them equivalent to
suffering a conquest.
As in Lower Egypt the foreign rulers were content
'With drawing a tribute from the petty kings, so in
■tatoris and Middle Egypt petty kings or vassals were
Set up by the Ethiopians, whose supremacy these
Pnnces had to recognise, and to pay their taxes.
Thus the great kingdom of Kamit was split up into
httle dependent states, which leant, now on Ethiopia,
uow on Assyria as each foreign master gained prepon-
derance for the time.
About the year 766 B.C. a revolt broke out under
an enterprising petty king of Sais and Memphis, by
name Tefnbkht, the Technactis or Tnephachthus of
classic writers. Profiting by the momentary weakness of
tne Assyrian Empire, he prevailed on the other princes
°i Lower Egypt to join him, and made an inroad with his
whole force upon Middle Egypt, where the Egyptian
^assals of Piankhi at once submitted to him. The
hidings having reached Piankhi, he forthwith sent orders
0 his generals to check the advance of Tefnekht, and
so to force the bold petty king to beat a retreat.
Subjoined is a translation of the memorial stone of
lankhi, discovered several years ago at Mount Barkal.
■•us monument, a granite block covered with writing,
Was set up there by the Ethiopian king Piankhi, in
Remembrance of his conquest of Middle and Lower
gypt, and will show, far better than any description,
le several stages of the Ethiopian expedition, and the
Peculiar position of the Egyptian petty kings. Of these
e give a list according to the account furnished by
tue stone :—