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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tists, and his father Mani had filled before him the post ofchief ef the sculptors (Mariettk, MormmeiUs divers, pi. 20 u). The part played by tliese personageswas first defined by Brugsch, with perhaps some exaggeration of tlieir artistic merit and originalityof talent (Geicldchie JEgyptens, pp. 421-423). Nestor Lhote, Ltttres ecrites dEyijpte, pp. 7G, 77, who considers them two separatetowns. * We know .it present of fourteen of these stelie, and the position of the principal of them will beseen in the map of the nome. The earlitst discovered were published by PiussE dAvennes, Monu-ments Hgyjitiens, pis. xii.-xiv., partly from the copies made by Nestor Lhote; and others have beengradually added to them through the labours of Lepsu s, Venkni., iii. 91, 110 a, b, of Dakessy, Tom-beaux et Steles-Limiles de Hagi-Qandil, in the Becueil de Travaux, vol. xv. pp. iii-&i, and of Petiue,Tell el-Amarna, jip. 5, C. A certain number must still remain to be discovered on both banks ofthe Nile.
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322 THE EIOETEENTH TEEBAN DYNASTY. of Shu, which is disk, the eternal infuser of life. ^ His priests exercised thesame functions as those of Heliopolis, and his high priest was called Oirimau,like the high priest of Ea in Aunii. This functionary was a certain Hariri,upon whom the king showered his favours, and he was for some time the chiefauthority in the State after the Pharaoh himself.^ Atonu was representedsometimes by the ordinary figure of Horus,^ sometimes by the solar disk, but adisk whose rays were prolonged towards the earth, like so many arms ready tolay hold with their little hands of the offerings of the faithful, or to distributeto mortals the crux ansata, the symbol of life. The other gods, except Amon,were sharers with humanity in his benefits. Atonu proscribed him, and toleratedhim only at Thebes ; he required, moreover, that the name of Amon should beeffaced wherever it occurred, but he respected Ra and Horus and Harmakhis—■all, in fact, but Amon : he was content

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