nounced, suing for mercy. Rameses
acts the part of a magnanimous conqueror, and grants pardon to the
repentant rebels. He then returns peaceably to Egypt, leaving the terror
of his arms in all the countries of the East.

At the end of the last page of the manuscript are the date and dedication,
unfortunately somewhat mutilated. The writer Penta-our dedicates it, not
to the King, but to a chief librarian, probably Amen-em-an, with whom he
carried on a correspondence. This poem was so highly appreciated by the
King that he caused it to be engraved in hieroglyphics upon the walls of
one of his palaces, where some remains of it may be still seen. If the
date be correctly read, it would appear to have been written four years
after the event it celebrates, and, notwithstanding the exaggerated style
of adulation which pervades it, there can be little doubt that some such
occurrence as that which it represents really took place.

FOOTNOTES

_ 1 I.e._, the mountain of sunset.

_ 2 I.e._, Maat.

3 The following petition, "Oh, grant thou unto me a path," etc., is
written once only, and at the end of the Litany, but I think it is
clear that it was intended to be repeated after each of the nine
addresses. This is proved by the Saite Recension (see Lepsius, op.
cit, Bl. 5) where the words, "Grant thou the sweet breath of the
north wind to the Osiris Auf-ankh," are written in two places and
are intended to be said after each of the ten addresses above them.

_ 4 I.e._, "the place where nothing groweth," the name of a district in
the underworld.

5 The name of the sanctuary of the goddess Nekhebet in Upper Egypt,
the Eileithyiapolis of the Greeks.

_ 6 I.e._, the two lands Atebui, which were situated one on each side
of the celestial Nile.

_ 7 I.e._, the land on each side of the Red Sea and on the coast of
Africa.

_ 8 I.e._, "Lady of life," a name of Isis.

_ 9 I.e._, the mountain of the sunset.

_ 10 I.e._, the mountain of the sunset.

_ 11 I.e._, An-rut-f, the place where nothing groweth.

_ 12 I.e._, the mountain of sunrise, but the scribe appears to have
written "Baakha" instead of "Manu."

_ 13 I.e._, the Sun and the Moon.

_ 14 I.e._, the Sun and Moon.

_ 15 I.e._, the dead.

16 The name of the deceased is wanting.

_ 17 I.e._, "Osiris, Governor of Amentet."

18 Pe and Tepu wer