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Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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Boudier, from a photograph by Eniil Brugach-Bey. This is the list now in the British Museum ; see p. 220 of the Dawn of Civilization for informa-tion on thfse two tables. Naville, Ahnas el-Mcdineh, pp. 2, 9-11, and pis. i. AC, ii. AC, v., vi.; ef. Petrie, Medum, pp. 5-!),iiud lllahun, Kahun and Gurob, p. 22. (For the nature of this resting-place, which was not histjmb, see supra, p. 382.—Tk.) The Great Inscription of Abydos, 1. 22. Partly excavated and published by Mariette (Monuments divers, pi. 31; of. Brugsch, An den THE BUILDINGS OF RAMSES ON THE DELTA. 423 southland before one of them a fine colossal figure in granite.- It lay not longago at the bottom of a hole among the palm trees, and was covered by theinundation every year; it has now been so raised as to be safe from the waters,llamses could hardly infuse new life into all the provinces which had been devas-tated years before by the Shep-herd-kings ; ^ but Heliopolis/Bubastes,^ Athribis,* Patumu,Mendis,8 Tell Moqdam,^ and
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THE COLOSSAL STATUE OP EAMSE3 II. AT JIITKAHINEH. all the cities of the eastern corner of the Delta, constitute a museum of his monu-ments, every object within them testifying to his activity. He colonised thesetowns with his prisoners, rebuilt them, and set to work to rouse them from the Eerauigeher, in the Zeilschrifl, 1869, p. 2), and partly by M. de Morgan. This is probably the templementioned in tlie Great Inscription of Aha Simbel, 11. 31-86 (Cbampollion, Monuments de ISgypte, etc.,)j1. xxxviii.; Rosellini, il/o»iUjtte«(4Stonci, pl.ciii.; Lepsius, X*c7i/im., iii. 194), translated byNAViLLE,The Decree of Ihlah-Totunen in favour of Ramses II., in the Transactions of the Bibl. Arch. Soc.,vol. vii. pp. 117-138; cf. Bkigsch, Geschichte ^gyptem, pp. 537-540. These are probably those mentioned by Herodotus (II. cvii., ex.), when he says that Sesostris cou-fltmotedapropylon in the temple of Hepliaistos; cf.WiEDEMANN,iIerci(Zots 2(oeiiesi?Mc7i, pp.418,426,427. This is the Abu-l-hol of

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