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)

70 TOPOGRAPHY OF THEBES. [Chap. I.

monarch then alights from his chariot and distributes
rewards to his troops. In the next compartment the
king's military secretaries draw up an account of the
number of spears, bows, swords, and other arms
taken from the enemy, which are laid before them ;
and mention seems to be made in the hieroglyphics
of the horses * that have been captured.

Remeses then proceeds in his car, having his
bow and sword in one hand and his whip in the
other, indicating that his march still lies through
an enemy's country. The van of his army is com-
posed of a body of chariots; the infantry in close
order, preceding the royal car, constitute the centre,
and other similar corps form the flank and rear.
They are again summoned by sound of trumpet to the
attack of another Asiaticf enemy, and in the next
compartment the Egyptian monarch gives orders
for the charge of the hostile army drawn up in the
open plain. Assisted by their allies, the Shairetana_,
a maritime people armed with round bucklers and
spears, they fall upon the undisciplined troops of
the enemy, who, after a short conflict, are routed,
and retreat in great disorder. The women endeavor

* The figure of the horse is, as usual, preceded by its name
HthCr.

f This people are called Fekkaros by M. Champollion. I am
ignorant of the force of the first character and of his reasons for
adopting the F. May they not be the Tochari ? " a large tribe,"
according to Ptolemy, on the north-east of Bactria, and at no
great distance from the Rhibii. If any of the sculptures of
Thebes refer to the rebellion of the Bactrians, they are here.