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MEMPHIS AND MYCEN/E.
suited the Hellenes in the time of the Ptolemies, in earlier
times it would have suited other races.
There are really no grounds at all for identifying the
Achasans with the Aqaiuasha. That tribe is mentioned in
inscriptions of king Ba-en-Ra Mer-en-Ptaha, but not in those
of any earlier or later kings. He came to the throne in 1028
at latestb. According to his inscriptions, the Aqaiuasha and
other tribes had made their way into the Delta, and they
were defeated there by the royal troops in the fifth year of
his reign. They are described in these inscriptions as people
of the land of the sea; but this can only mean that their
home was on the sea-coast in the neighbourhood of Egypt,
for the narrative shows that the invaders came by land.
And thus there is nothing, beyond an accidental likeness in
the names, to justify the notion that the Aqaiuasha were
Achaeans. Nor is there anything in other records to connect
the Egyptians with the inhabitants of Greece in the Mycenaean
age.
The only cartouches that have come to light on Mycenaean
sites in Greece, are those of king Neb-mat-Ra Amen-hetep
and his wife, queen Thiic. And on one of the large scarabs of
this king and queen, with a date in year 10 of his reign, the
statement is that Thii was a daughter of Iuaa and Thuaa;
and that Kirgipa, a daughter of prince Satharna of Naharna,
had then arrived in Egypt11. In the cuneiform despatches of
king Tushratta of Mitani to king Nibmuariya, or Neb-mat-Ra,
greetings are sent to Tii, or Thii, and also to Gilukhipa, or
Kirgipa, whom Tushratta calls his sister0. Mitani, or Mathen,
is mentioned between Naharna and Retennu in a list of the
conquests of king User-mat-Ra Rameses Heq-Annuf; and
a Karnak. Mariette, Karaak, plate 52, lines 1, 14, plate 54, lines 52, 54,
Gizeh Museum. Zeitschrift fuer Aegyptische Sprache und Alterthumskunde for
1883, page 67, line 13.
b See above, page 43. c See above, pp. 61, 62.
a Zeitschrift fuer Aegyptische Sprache unci Alterthumskunde for 1880, p. 82.
8 British Museum. Bezold and Budge, The Tell el-Amarna Tablets, no. 9.
Berlin Museum. Winckler and Abel, Der Thontafelfund von El-Amarna, nos.
23. 24-
' Medinet Habu. Duemichen, Historischc Inschriften, vol. 1, plate 17.
MEMPHIS AND MYCEN/E.
suited the Hellenes in the time of the Ptolemies, in earlier
times it would have suited other races.
There are really no grounds at all for identifying the
Achasans with the Aqaiuasha. That tribe is mentioned in
inscriptions of king Ba-en-Ra Mer-en-Ptaha, but not in those
of any earlier or later kings. He came to the throne in 1028
at latestb. According to his inscriptions, the Aqaiuasha and
other tribes had made their way into the Delta, and they
were defeated there by the royal troops in the fifth year of
his reign. They are described in these inscriptions as people
of the land of the sea; but this can only mean that their
home was on the sea-coast in the neighbourhood of Egypt,
for the narrative shows that the invaders came by land.
And thus there is nothing, beyond an accidental likeness in
the names, to justify the notion that the Aqaiuasha were
Achaeans. Nor is there anything in other records to connect
the Egyptians with the inhabitants of Greece in the Mycenaean
age.
The only cartouches that have come to light on Mycenaean
sites in Greece, are those of king Neb-mat-Ra Amen-hetep
and his wife, queen Thiic. And on one of the large scarabs of
this king and queen, with a date in year 10 of his reign, the
statement is that Thii was a daughter of Iuaa and Thuaa;
and that Kirgipa, a daughter of prince Satharna of Naharna,
had then arrived in Egypt11. In the cuneiform despatches of
king Tushratta of Mitani to king Nibmuariya, or Neb-mat-Ra,
greetings are sent to Tii, or Thii, and also to Gilukhipa, or
Kirgipa, whom Tushratta calls his sister0. Mitani, or Mathen,
is mentioned between Naharna and Retennu in a list of the
conquests of king User-mat-Ra Rameses Heq-Annuf; and
a Karnak. Mariette, Karaak, plate 52, lines 1, 14, plate 54, lines 52, 54,
Gizeh Museum. Zeitschrift fuer Aegyptische Sprache und Alterthumskunde for
1883, page 67, line 13.
b See above, page 43. c See above, pp. 61, 62.
a Zeitschrift fuer Aegyptische Sprache unci Alterthumskunde for 1880, p. 82.
8 British Museum. Bezold and Budge, The Tell el-Amarna Tablets, no. 9.
Berlin Museum. Winckler and Abel, Der Thontafelfund von El-Amarna, nos.
23. 24-
' Medinet Habu. Duemichen, Historischc Inschriften, vol. 1, plate 17.