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

438 KHABBASH ch. xvn-

from the Greeks roused anew the desire of the Egyp-
tians for liberty, and an anti-king Khabbash, with the
coronation name of Senen-Tanen Sotep-en-Ptah, boldly
made head against the Persian sovereign. The me-
morial inscription of the satrap Ptolemy relates that

the sea-board, which bears the name of Patanut (in Greek,
Phthenotes), had been assigned by the king Khabbash to the gods-
of the city of Buto, when his Majesty had gone to Buto to examine
the sea-board, which lies in their whole domain, with the purpose
of penetrating into the interior of the marsh-land of Natho,"to
inspect that arm of the Nile, which flows into the sea, in order
that the Asiatic fleet might be kept at fa distance from Egypt.

This lake-district, called Patanut, belonged to the deities of
Buto from early times. But the hereditary foe Xerxes had alien-
ated it. He kept none of it for the gods of the city of Buto.

Thus the hereditary foe Xerxes had shown an evil example
against the city of Buto. But the great king, our lord, the god
Horus, the son of Isis and the son of Osiris, the prince of the
princes, the king of the kings of Upper and Lower Egypt, the-
avenger of his father, the lord of Buto, the beginning of the gods
and he who came after, after whom no (god) was king, he drove
out the hereditary enemy Xerxes out of his palace together with
his eldest son, and so he made himself famous in Sais, the city of
the goddess Nit, on that day by the side of the Mother of the
Gods.

THE LAST PHAKAOHS.

After the retreat of the Persians, a ray of hope for
freedom dawned upon the Egyptians. During a period
of about sixty years, two dynasties (the Twenty-ninth
and Thirtieth) established themselves, at Mendes and
Sebennytus, to venture on the last effort to re-conquer
their lost independence. The monuments, on which the-
names of the kings of these dynasties can only be
deciphered with difficulty, are silent as to their deeds.
As the most remarkable monument of their times we'
may point to the sarcophagus of King Nectanebo I.,
now in the British Museum, and also to that of a
descendant of the last kings of the Thirtieth Dynasty,