Identifier: struggleofnation00maspuoft (find matches)
Title: The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916
Subjects: History, Ancient Egypt -- History Syria -- History and antiquities Assyria -- History and antiquities
Publisher: London : S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ich is now inthe GIzeh Mueeum (Maspero, Les Momies royales de Deir-el-Bahari, in the Mimoires de la Missiondu Caire, vol. i. pp. 533-535). It is evident, from the inspection which I have made, that Ahmosiswas about fifty years old at the time of his death, and, allowing him to have reigned twenty-fiveyears, he must have been twenty-five or twenty-six when he came to the throne. A HMO SIS I. 81 one victory would biing them to Memphis, and the whole valley would againfall under their suzerainty. Ahmosis, by driving them from their last strong-hold, averted this danger. It is, therefore, not without reason that the officialchroniclers of later times separated him from his ancestors and made himthe head of a new dynasty. His predecessors had in reality been merelyPliaraohs on sufferance, ruling in the south within the confines of theirTheban principality, gaining in power, it is true, with every generation, butnever able to attain to the suzerainty of the whole country. They were reckoned
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THE .SMALL GOLD VOTIVK B.\1!QUE UI IHAKAOH KAMOSU, IN THE GIZEH MU.SEUM. in the XVII dynasty together witli the HyksOs sovereigns of uncontestedlegitimacy, while their successors were chosen to constitute the XVIII,comprising Pharaohs with full powers, tolerating no competitors, and unitingunder their firm rule the two regions of which Egypt was composed—thepossessions of Sit and the possessions of Horus.^ The war of deliverance broke out on the accession of Ahmosis, and continuedduring the first five years of his reign.^ One of his lieutenants, the kings Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Emit Brugsch-Iiey, taken in 1878. Manetho, or his abridgers, call the king wlio drove out the Shepherds Amusis or Tethmosis(MtXLEK-DiDOT, Fragmenta Historicornm Gnecorum, vol. ii. pp. 572-578). Lepsiua thought he eawgrounds for preferring tlie second reading, and identified this Tethmusis with Thiltrnosi Manakljpirri,the Tliutmosis III. of our lists ; Ahmosis could only have driven out t

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