Wilkinson, John Gardner: The Architecture Of Ancient Egypt: In Which The Columns Are Arranged In Orders, And The Temples Classified; With Remarks On The Early Progress Of Architecture, Etc.; With A Large Volume Of Plates Ilustrative Of The Subject, And Containing The Various Columns And details, From Actual Measurement (Text) (London, 1850)

122 ARCHITECTURE OF EGYPT. PART II.

Thebes he was the first member of the triad, com-
posed of Amun, Maut, and Khons; and he continued
to enjoy those honours, until the end of the reign
of Amunoph III. At that time, some Stranger
kings obtained possession of the throne of Egypt,
as the Shepherds had before, either by conquest,
or by right of inheritance; and one of them
forbade the worship of Amun, and caused his name
to be erased from all the monuments of Upper and
Lower Egypt. This was Atinre-Bakhan; and the
period of his rule was evidently between the reigns
of Amunoph III and Horus,* as I have found him
offering to the 3rd Amunoph at Soleb ;f and Horus
destroyed the temples erected by him at Thebes, and
used the stones for his own buildings. Thus then,
the period of his rule is fixed, between the reigns of
Amunoph III and his nominal successor Horus; and
the monuments shew that the word "Amun", which
was erased from the name of Amunoph III, was re-
stored when Horus ascended the throne; who also
admitted it into his own nomen. The reason of
Bakhan's anger against Amun is uncertain ; but it
seems that another deity was substituted for " the
king of the Gods"; and a new worship was intro-
duced into the country. This favourite deity of
the Stranger kings was Atin-re ; and he was per-
haps selected by them out of the Egyptian Fan-
theon, from his name being most like that of a

* In the list of kings, Horus is made the immediate successor of
Amunoph III, and these Stranger tings are unnoticed.

f Alin-re-Bakhan (or Bashan) mentions Thothmes IV also, in an
inscription at Tel el Amarna.