in. Behold the nomes of the South; not a soul has been
massacred there, saving only the impious who blasphemed God, and these
rebels have been executed."

* Maritumu, or Maitumu, is the modern Meidum, associated in
the inscription with the characteristic epithet, Pisokari-
Nibu-Suazu, or "temple of Sokari, master of the
transfiguration." Titaui lay exactly on the frontier between
Upper and Lower Egypt--hence its name, which signifies
"commanding the two regions;" it was in the Memphite nome,
and Brugsch identifies it with the Greek city of Acanthos,
near Dahshur, but this position appears to me to be too
close to Memphis and too far from the boundary of the nome;
I should prefer to place Titaui at Kafr el-Ayat or
thereabouts.

** I.e. against Pionkhi, who was master of the Upper
Country, that is, of Thebes and Ethiopia, and the forces
from the whole of the valley to the south of Memphis who
accompanied him.

*** Lit., "He who is on the South of his Wall," a name given
to one of the quarters of Memphis, and afterwards applied to
the god Phtah, who was worshipped in that quarter.

This eloquence, however, was of no avail. A detachment of archers,
sailors, and engineers sent to make a reconnaissance of the harbour was
taken by surprise and routed with loss, and on the following night
Tafnakhti suddenly made his appearance on the spot. He had the 8000 men
who were defending it paraded before him, and made them a speech, in
which he pointed out the great natural strength of the position, the
stoutness of the walls and the abundance of provisions; he then mounted
his horse, and making his way a second time through the enemy's
outposts, headed straight for the Delta in order to levy reinforcements
there. The next day, Pionkhi went in person to examine the approaches of
the city in which his ancestors had once been throned. There was a full
Nile, and the river came right up to the walls. He sailed close in along
the whole of the eastern front, and landed on the north, much vexed and
discomfited at finding it so strongly fortified. Even the common
soldiers were astonished, and began to discuss among themselves the
difficulties of the undertaking with a certain feeling of
discouragement. It would be necessary, they declared, to open a regular
siege, "to make an inclined plane leading to the city, throw up-
earthworks against its walls,