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THE SHEPHERD-WAR.
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glyphics, foreign enemies are frequently represented as
captives.
Josephus then continues, " These above-mentioned
Kings of those who were called Shepherds, and their
successors, ruled Egypt, he says, for five hundred and
eleven years. And he says that, after this, the Kings of
the Thebaid and of the rest of Egypt made an insur-
rection against the Shepherds, and a great and long
war raged between them." This statement shows the
date of the commencement of the great Shepherd-war
to have been about half a century before the beginning
of the Eighteenth Dynasty, if the Fifteenth Dynasty
commenced early in the twenty-first century B.C. " The
Kings of the Thebaid and of the rest of Egypt" were
evidently of the Thirteenth Dynasty, and of the Four-
teenth, and perhaps of the Tenth also.
At this point I should have concluded the present
section if I were to restrict it to the period of the
Shepherd-domination, which I have no doubt termi-
nated some time before the commencement of the
Eighteenth Dynasty; but as the commencement of
that Dynasty, also a remarkable point of ancient Egyp-
tian history, is intimately connected with the revolt
against the Shepherds, I have thought it best to extend
this section somewhat beyond its strict limits, beginning
the next with the Eighteenth Dynasty.
It would be interesting could we trace the causes
which led to the throwing off the Shepherd-yoke, but
unfortunately we have not sufficient information to
enable us to do so. Of the period that intervened
between the reign of Assa, the last King but one of
the Fifteenth Dynasty, and the beginning of the
Eighteenth Dynasty, no temples remain, and we have
THE SHEPHERD-WAR.
[Part II.
glyphics, foreign enemies are frequently represented as
captives.
Josephus then continues, " These above-mentioned
Kings of those who were called Shepherds, and their
successors, ruled Egypt, he says, for five hundred and
eleven years. And he says that, after this, the Kings of
the Thebaid and of the rest of Egypt made an insur-
rection against the Shepherds, and a great and long
war raged between them." This statement shows the
date of the commencement of the great Shepherd-war
to have been about half a century before the beginning
of the Eighteenth Dynasty, if the Fifteenth Dynasty
commenced early in the twenty-first century B.C. " The
Kings of the Thebaid and of the rest of Egypt" were
evidently of the Thirteenth Dynasty, and of the Four-
teenth, and perhaps of the Tenth also.
At this point I should have concluded the present
section if I were to restrict it to the period of the
Shepherd-domination, which I have no doubt termi-
nated some time before the commencement of the
Eighteenth Dynasty; but as the commencement of
that Dynasty, also a remarkable point of ancient Egyp-
tian history, is intimately connected with the revolt
against the Shepherds, I have thought it best to extend
this section somewhat beyond its strict limits, beginning
the next with the Eighteenth Dynasty.
It would be interesting could we trace the causes
which led to the throwing off the Shepherd-yoke, but
unfortunately we have not sufficient information to
enable us to do so. Of the period that intervened
between the reign of Assa, the last King but one of
the Fifteenth Dynasty, and the beginning of the
Eighteenth Dynasty, no temples remain, and we have