At first under the tutelage of her sister; great campaigns in Meso- potamia, Central Asia, and Æthi- opia. Tributes. Temples of Sam- neh, Ibrim, Ipsambul, Al-Assasif, and Karnak. Three Obelisks, Alexandria, Lateran, and At- meidan. Exodus. W. 1491 B.C. Mines at W. Magara worked in his 18th year. Copper mines at Sarabut al Kha- dem worked. Construction of Amada, Kalabshe, Silsilis, Beghe, Gournah,and Elephantine. Death of Moses, 1451. W. Tribute brought from Mesopotamia; attacks Shepherds, Ethiopia, Libya, in his 7th year; con- structs part of the Temple of Amada. Grand victories over Ethiopians, Mesopotamia, Singara, Shep- herds, and Libyans; marries Queen Taia; excavates a great tank in the 12th year of his reign. Limits of empire extend N. to Mesopotamia, S. to Choloe
Monuments in British Museum.
Small statue, E. S. 51. Sca- rabæ, E. R. 4948a. Casts from obelisk at Karnak, E. R. 4064. Bricks, E. R. 6011-6013. Alabaster vase, E. R. 4498.
Scarabæi, E. R. 4066-4073. Bricks, E. R. 6014. Ala- baster cover of a vase, E. R. 2672.
Cast from Al Assasif. Sca- rabæi, E. R. 4078-79. Statue of his wife Mu- temna. Bricks, E. R. 6015. E. S. No. 43. Colossal statues, E. S. Nos. 17, 21; head, No. 3. Tablet of the chief baker of his Queen, No. 289. Colossal statues of Pasht, Nos. 37, 57, 68, 88, 89, 91. Scarabæi, E.R. 4080-
or Ka-laa. Princes of Æthiopia appointed. Egypt in her zenith. Temples at Beghe in the quarries of Silsilis; Temple at Al Kab Memnonium at Gournah; Vocal Memnon; Palace at Luxor. Introduction of the Worship of the Sun's disk at Al-Tel (Albastron) and Tel Al-Amarna and Thebes; name of Amen erased through- out Egypt; King changes his name to Bachenatem, brother of Amenophis III. W. son accord- ing to B. New style of art. Son of Amenophis III. B.; heresy of Disk-worship stopped; ap- pears to have had influence in Ethiopia. Like the preceding, not admitted into Tablet of Abydos.
Defeats Amen-tuanch and Amen- ophis IV.; restoration of the Worship of Amen; destruction of the edifices of the Disk-wor- shippers at Karnak; conquest of the Ethiopians; viceroys of Æthiopia appointed; Temple of Luxor, Karnak, Silsilis, Al- Assasif; Egypt loses her North- ern conquests; second invasion of Shepherds. Decline of art. Regency. Mother of Amenophis III. W.
4096. Tablet dated in his 36th year, E. R. 518. Brick-stamps, E. R. 5992. Bricks, E. R. 6016-17. Sepulchral figures, E. R. 8689-91.
Porcelain rings with his name. Tablets Nos. E. S. 332, 344, 359, 360, 371, about this period. Scarab. E. R. 4096-97.
Porcelain rings with his name; colour case of his Queen, E. R. 2573; and tablet of an officer of the palace of his father, E. R. 211.
Statue, E. R. 5, 75; Tablets Nos. 550, 551, 552. Sca- rab. 4056a. E. R. 5624.
Monuments in British Museum.
Son of Horus ? R. Endows the Temple of Bechani; Shepherds driven out of Egypt; the King assumes same prenomen as Aah- mes I.; commencement of new kingdom. B. Edifice at Luxor continued.
Drives Shepherds out of Egypt in the 1st year of his reign; attacks Canaan, Hermonites, Rutem, Sy- ria, the Chta, Mesopotamia, Singara, and Libya; conquers the Ethiopians and restores the old limits of the empire; Ethio- pia under a viceroy; works at Amada and Silsilis-Temple of Gourneh, Luxor in the Hepta- nomis, and Flaminian Obelisk. Grand victories in Asia, Ethiopia, Libya, Syria, and Chta; second campaign in his 5th year; invests prince of Ethiopia; treaty with Chta in his 21st year; Luxor, Lateran, and other Obelisks.
Cast from entrance of his tomb; Scarabæi, stamped with his prænomen; tab- let of a military officer in his reign, No. 146.
Colossal head, E.S. No. 19. Statues, Nos. 42, 27. Bust, No. 96. Tablets, Nos. 163, 164, dated in his 62nd year. Nos. 166, 167, 328, 440. Histori- cal papyri. Bricks.
Difficulty about this period: Column, E.S. 64. Champ., Rosell., Wilkins. sup- pose him son of Seti II.; Bunsen, head of a new Dynasty. Repa- rations at Memphis.
Proscynemata at Silsilis and Eilei- thyia. Grand palace at Madinat Háboo. Conquest of the Libanus, Palestine, Africa.
Continues works at Madinat Háboo and Karnak.
Works the mines at Sarabut al Khadem.
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