aigns that they were at length sufficiently
subdued to propose a treaty. At last, in the Egyptian king's XXIst year,
on the 21st of the month Tybi, when the Pharaoh, then residing in his
good town of Anakhitu, was returning from the temple where he had been
offering prayers to his father Amon-Ea, to Harmakhis of Heliopolis,
to Phtah, and to Sutkhu the valiant son of Nuit, Eamses, one of the
"messengers" who filled the office of lieutenant for the king in Asia,
arrived at the palace and presented to him Tartisubu, who was authorised
to make peace with Egypt in the name of Khatusaru.* Tartisubu carried
in his hand a tablet of silver, on which his master had prescribed the
conditions which appeared to him just and equitable. A short preamble
recalling the alliances made between the ancestors of both parties, was
followed by a declaration of friendship, and a reciprocal obligation to
avoid in future all grounds of hostility.

* The treaty of Ramses II. with the Prince of the Khati was
sculptured at Karnak.

Not only was a perpetual truce declared between both peoples, but they
agreed to help each other at the first demand. "Should some enemy march
against the countries subject to the great King of Egypt, and should he
send to the great Prince of the Khati, saying: 'Come, bring me forces
against them,' the great Prince of the Khati shall do as he is asked by
the great King of Egypt, and the great Prince of the Khati shall destroy
his enemies. And if the great Prince of the Khati shall prefer not to
come himself, he shall send his archers and his chariots to the great
King of Egypt to destroy his enemies." A similar clause ensured aid
in return from Ramses to Khatusaru, "his brother," while two articles
couched in identical terms made provision against the possibility of any
town or tribe dependent on either of the two sovereigns withdrawing its
allegiance and placing it in the hands of the other party. In this case
the Egyptians as well as the Hittites engaged not to receive, or at
least not to accept, such offers, but to refer them at once to the
legitimate lord. The whole treaty was placed under the guarantee of the
gods both, of Egypt and of the Khati, whose names were given at length:
"Whoever shall fail to observe the stipulations, let the thousand gods
of Khati and the thousand gods of Egypt strike his house, his land, and
his servants. But he who shall observe the stipulations engraved on the
tablet of silv