it: in comparison with those of Thutmosis
III., it is disappointing, and one sees at a glance how inferior, even
in its triumph, the Egypt of the XXIInd dynasty was to that of the
XVIIIth.

[Illustration: 419.jpg AMON PRESENTING TO SHESHONQ THE LIST OF THE
CITIES CAPTURED IN ISRAEL AND JUDAH]

Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by Beato.

It is no longer a question of Carchemish, or Qodshu, or Mitanni,
or Naharaim: Megiddo is the most northern point mentioned, and the
localities enumerated bring us more and more to the south--Eabbat,
Taanach, Hapharaim, Mahanaim,* Gibeon, Beth-horon, Ajalon, Jud-hammelek,
Migdol, Jerza, Shoko, and the villages of the Negeb. Each locality,
in consequence of the cataloguing of obscure towns, furnished enough
material to cover two, or even three of the crenellated cartouches in
which the names of the conquered peoples are enclosed, and Sheshonq
had thus the puerile satisfaction of parading before the eyes of
his subjects a longer _cortege_ of defeated chiefs than that of his
predecessor. His victorious career did not last long: he died shortly
after, and his son Osorkon was content to assume at a distance authority
over the Kharu.**

* The existence of the names of certain Israelite towns on
the list of. Sheshonq has somewhat astonished the majority
of the historians of Israel. Renan declared that the list
must "put aside the conjecture that Jeroboam had been the
instigator of the expedition, which would certainly have
been readily admissible, especially if any force were
attached to the Greek text of 1 Kings xii. 24, which makes
Jeroboam to have been a son-in-law of the King of Egypt;"
the same view had been already expressed by Stade; others
have thought that Sheshonq had conquered the country for his
ally Jeroboam. Sheshonq, in fact, was following the Egyptian
custom by which all countries and towns which paid tribute
to the Pharaoh, or who recognised his suzerainty, were made
to, or might, figure on his triumphal lists whether they had
been conquered or not: the presence of Megiddo or Mahanaim
on the lists does not prove that they were _conquered_ by
Sheshonq, but that the prince to whom they owed allegiance
was a tributary to the King of Egypt. The name of Jud-ham-
melek, which occupies the twenty-ninth place on the list,
was for a long time translated as king or kingdom of