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Title: History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 5 (of 12)

Author: G. Maspero

Editor: A.H. Sayce

Translator: M.L. McClure

Release Date: December 16, 2005 [EBook #17325]

Language: English

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HISTORY OF EGYPT CHALDEA, SYRIA, BABYLONIA, AND ASSYRIA

By G. MASPERO, Honorable Doctor of Civil Laws, and Fellow of Queen's
College, Oxford; Member of the Institute and Professor at the College of
France

Edited by A. H. SAYCE, Professor of Assyriology, Oxford

Translated by M. L. McCLURE, Member of the Committee of the Egypt
Exploration Fund

CONTAINING OVER TWELVE HUNDRED COLORED PLATES AND ILLUSTRATIONS

Volume V.

LONDON

THE GROLIER SOCIETY

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THE EIGHTEENTH THEBAN DYNASTY--(continued)

_THUTMOSIS III.: THE ORGANISATION OF THE SYRIAN PROVINCES--AMENOTHES
III.: THE WORSHIPPERS OF ATONU._

_Thutmosis III.: the talcing of Qodsha in the 42nd year of his
reign--The tribute of the south--The triumph-song of Amon._

_The constitution of the Egyptian empire--The Grown vassals and
their relations with the Pharaoh--The king's messengers--The allied
states--Royal presents and marriages; the status of foreigners in the
royal harem--Commerce with Asia, its resources and its risks; protection
granted to the national industries, and treaties of extradition._

_Amenothes II, his campaigns in Syria and Nubia--Thutmosis IV.; his
dream under the shadow of the Sphinx and his marriage--Amenothes III.
and his peaceful reign--The great building works--The temples of
Nubia: Soleb and his sanctuary built by Amenothes III, Gebel Barkal,
Elephantine--The beautifying of Thebes: the temple of Mat, the temples
of Amon at Luxor and at Karnak, the tomb of Amenothes III, the chapel
and the colossi of Memnon._

_The increasing importance of Anion and his priests: pre