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. VII.] MONARCHS WHO RULED THERE. 473

mer existence of a large city. The Ethiopians, says
Strabo, above Syene, consisted of the Troglodytse,
Blemmyes, Nubae, and Megabari;* and the towns
taken by Petronius were Pselcis, Primis, Aboccis,
Phthuris, Cambusis, Attena, and Stadisis, remark-
able, as Pliny reports, for its cataract.f The state-
ment of Herodotus, that Sesostris was the only
Egyptian monarch who ruled in Ethiopia, is utterly
devoid of foundation, as several other Pharaohs not
only extended their conquests, but erected temples
and other buildings in that country, both before and
after the time of that conqueror, the remains of
which still exist, and that too in Upper Ethiopia.

The names of the monarchs found J above the
second cataract are Osirtesen III.§ and Thothmes II.
at Samneh; Thothmes I. at Tombos; Thothmes III.
at Samneh, Dosha, Sai, and opposite Meroe;
Thothmes IV. at el Berkel; Amunoph III. at Se-
dinga, || Soleb, Berkel, Tombos, and Samneh;

* The Megabari and Blemmyes inhabited the eastern desert,
north of Meroe to the frontiers of Egypt, and were under the
dominion of the Ethiopians. The Troglodytse on the shore of the
Red Sea, from Berenice southwards. The Nubae, a Libyan
nation, were on the left bank, and independent of Ethiopia. Some
modern travellers have fancied the caves of the Troglodytae at
Thebes, and other parts of Egypt.

t Plin. lib. vi. c. 29.

I I am indebted for these to Major Felix.

§ But the temple was built by Thothmes.

I Throughout Ethiopia, as well as Egypt, the nomen of
Amunoph III. has been composed of the same hieroglyphics as