Wilkinson, John Gardner: Topographie of Thebes, and general view of Egypt: being a short account of the principal objects worthy of notice in the valley of the Nile, to the second cataracte and Wadi Samneh, with the Fyoom, Oases and eastern desert, from Sooez to Bertenice (London, 1835)

Chap. I.] SPEECH OF THE GOD TO THE KING. 53

presence of PthahSokari, others being bound below
and behind the figure of the god. In the lower
part is a tablet, commencing with the twelfth year
of Remeses; and on the east tower, the same con-
queror smites similar captives before Amunre. Be-
neath are other names of the conquered cities or
districts of this northern enemy ; and at the upper
part of the propylon, a figure of colossal proportion
grasps a group of suppliant captives his uplifted
arm is about to sacrifice. Amunre, under the form
of Re, holds forth the sword of vengeance, and ad-
dresses the king in a long speech, contained in
nineteen lines, announcing that the Gentiles, or
foreigners of Libya, are beaten down beneath his *
mighty feet; that the god has come to give him
the chiefs of the Gentiles of the South, to carry away

them and their children,......the goods of their

country, .... and smite them with his sword, ....
that he gives the North countries,.....and to re-
duce the land of ... . under his powerful sandals;

.....that the god gives him the nations.....to

bring to the land of Egypt . . . the gold and silver
to serve for the decoration of the temple (he
erected) .... that he gives him dominion over the

East.....and the land of Pount,.....that he

gives him dominion over the West .... and other
countries, whose names I have not been able to
ascertain. Such, however, is the form of this in-

* The word "his," in the original, is of course "thy," as the
god addresses the king.