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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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s, the Thebes of the dead, hadgone on increasing in a remarkably rapid manner. It continued to extend iu See pp. 30y-312 of the present work for what is there said of the cemeteries of Thebes duringthe XVIIldynasty. The literal meaning of Khalitnibiis, Opposite to its master—the masterbeing here Amon of Karnak—was discovered by Brugsch, Uther den StucUnameu. Khefti-her-neb-s,iu the Zeitschrifty 1S63, pp. 3S-10. It was properly applied to the original part of the necropolis,Qurneh, the Assassif and Drah-abul-Neggah, but it was .ilso extended so as to include the entireregion of tombs. THE NECROPOLIS OF THEBES. 507 the south-western direction from the heroic period of the XYIIl dynastyonwards, and all the eminences and valleys were gradually appropriated oneafter the other for burying-places. At the time of which I am speaking, thisregion formed an actual town, or rather a chain of villages, each of which wasgrouped round some building constructed by one or other of tlie Pharaohs as
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THE NECROPOLIS OF SHEIKH AHI)EL-QUENEH. a funerary chapel. Towards th(north, opposite Karnak, they clustuedat Drah-abu1-Neggah around pyramid-,of the first Theban monarehs, at (iiu-neh around the mausolea of Ramses I.and Seti I., and at Sheikh Abd el-Qurneli they lay near the Auienopheumand the Pamonkaniqimit, or Ramesseum built by Ramses 11.^ Towards thesouth tliey diminished in number, tombs and monuments becoming fewer andappearing at wider intervals; the Migdol of Ramses III. formed an isolatedsuburb, tliat of Azamit, at Medinet-Habu: ^ the chapel of Isis, constructed byAmenothes, son of Hapu, formed a rallying-point for the huts of the hamlet ofKarka ; ■* and in the far distance, in a wild gorge at the extreme limit of humanhabitations, the queens of the Ramesside line slept their last sleep. Each of these Drawn by Boudier, from a pliotograph by 13eato. For information on the royal lemplea, seo pp. 382, .383, 419 of the present work for (jurneh,pp. 310-312 for the Amenopheum, a

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