Edwards, Amelia B.: Pharaohs, fellahs and explorers (New York, NY, 1892)

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PHARAOHS, FELLAHS, AXD EXPLORERS.

Simbel and Thebss were not dependent on only the text of
the poem for the subject-matter of their battle-scenes. They
were familiar with incidents of which the poet takes no note,
and of which we could know nothing had they not been re-
corded by the chisel of the sculptor and the brush of the
painter. In that spirited scene where Rameses, Phoebus-
Hke, stands erect in his chariot, bending his great bow and

THK PULNCE OK ALEPPO HELD UPSIDKDOWN AFTEB DROWNING.

From the Pylon of the Kamesseum, Thebes. Photographed by Mr. W. M. F. Petrie.

chasing the enemy into the water (page 209), we see, ior in-
stance, a half-drowned chieftain being dragged to land by
one of the Hittite garrison, and we learn that he was no less
a personage than the Prince of Aleppo. A hieroglyphic in-
scription engraved over the head of the rescued man in the
Abu-Simbel tableau runs thus: "The Great of Aleppo. His
warriors lift him up after the King has Rung him into the
water." Now, it is certain that this is no merely fanciful