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.] THE RETURN AFTER VICTORY. 67

the Egyptian conqueror, and bears the date of his
fifth year.

The suite of this historical subject continues on
the south wall. The king, returning victorious to
Egypt, proceeds slowly in his car*, conducting in
triumph the prisoners he has made, who walk
beside and before it, three others being bound to the
axle. Two of his sons attend as fanbearers,f and
the several regiments of Egyptian infantry, with a
corps of their allies, under the command of three
other of these princes, marching in regular step and
in the close array of disciplined troops, accompany
their king. He arrives at Thebes, and presents his
captives to Amunre and Maut, the deities of the
city, who compliment him, as usual, on the victory
he has gained, and the overthrow of the enemy he
has " trampled beneath his feet."|

On the north wall the king presents offerings to
different gods, and below is an ornamental kind of
border, composed of a procession of the king's sons
and daughters. Four of the former, his immediate
successors, bear the asp, or basilisk §, the emblem of

* The whip he holds is frequently represented, and generally
similar to this.

t This is one of the many instances of the peculiar severity of
filial duties in the East.

I I avail myself of this opportunity of noticing an error in the
vocabulary of my Materia Hierog. under the word " strong;" the
second and third group should read " powerful sandals," and the
fifth " overpowered " or " conquered."

§ M. Champollion has very satisfactorily derived its Greco-

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