bind ladders, set up masts and erect spars
all around it." Pionkhi burst into a rage when these remarks were
repeated to him: a siege in set form would have been a most serious
enterprise, and would have allowed the allied princes time to get
together fresh troops. He drove his ships full speed against the line of
boats anchored in the harbour, and broke through it at the first onset;
his sailors then scaled the bank and occupied the houses which
overlooked it. Reinforcements concentrated on this point gradually
penetrated into the heart of the city, and after two days' fighting the
garrison threw down their arms. The victor at once occupied the temples
to save them from pillage: he then purified Memphis with water and
natron, ascended in triumph to the temple of Phtah, and celebrated there
those rites which the king alone was entitled to perform. The other
fortresses in the neighbourhood surrendered without further hesitation.
King Auputi of Tentramu,* prince Akaneshu,** and prince Petisis tendered
the homage of their subjects in person, and the other sovereigns of the
Delta merely waited for a demonstration in force on the part of the
Ethiopians before following their example.

* Probably the original of the statue discovered by Naville
at Tel-el-Yahudiyeh. Tentramu and Taanu, the cities of
Auputi, are perhaps identical with the biblical Elim (Exod.
xvi. 1) and the Daneon Portus of Pliny on the Red Sea, but
Naville prefers to identify Daneon with the Tonu of the
_Berlin Papyrus No. 1_. I believe that we ought to look for
the kingdom of Auputi in the neighbourhood of Menzaleh, near
Tanis.

** Akaneshu ruled over Sebennytos and in the XVIIth nome.
Naville discovered at Samannud the statue of one of his
descendants, a king of the same name, perhaps his grandson,
who was prince of Sebennytos in the time of Psammetichus I.

Pionkhi crossed the Nile and marched in state to Heliopolis, there to
receive the royal investiture.

He offered up prayers at the various holy places along the route, such
as the sanctuary of Tumu at Khriahu and the temple of the Ennead who
dwelt in the cavern from which the Northern Nile was supposed to spring;
he then crossed over Mount Ahu, bathed his face in the reputed source
of the river, and at length penetrated into the dwelling-place of Ra.
He ascended the steps leading to the great chapel in order that he might
there "see Ra in