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)

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met with at e'Dayr, in Nubia, among the sculptures
of the second Remeses. Second compartment:—
He continues his march,* his troops leading the
van, and a trumpeter summons them to form for
the attack. Third compartment:—The Rebo await
the Egyptian invaders in the open field; the king
presses forwards in his car, and discharges his
arrows on the enemy. Several regiments of Egyp-
tian archers, in close array, advance on different
points, and harass them with showers of arrows.
The chariots rush to the charge, and a body of
Asiatic allies']' maintains the combat, hand to hand,
with the Rebo, who are at length routed, and fly
before their victorious aggressors. Some thousands
are left dead on the field, whose tongues J and hands
being cut off are brought by the Egyptian soldiers
as proofs of their success. Three thousand, five hun-
dred, and thirty-five hands and tongues form part of
the registered returns ; and two other heaps, and a
third of tongues, containing each a somewhat larger
number, are deposited under the superintendence
of the chief officers, as trophies of victory. The

* This evidently denotes the distance marched by the Egyptians
before they reached the enemy's country.

t They are the Sha***, a maritime people, whose features and
high-furred caps particularly denote their Asiatic origin; and
a large amulet suspended from their neck reminds us of a cus-
tom very usual among the nations of the East.

I The Turks, at the present day, cut off the right ear. Some
sacks of these trophies were sent by the Defterdar Bey to Qahirah
during the late war with the upper country.