rther upon him, and I will not in
future bow before any other god of the Whole Land than Amonra, king of
the gods!'" Another Pharaoh of popular romance, Nectanebo, possessed,
at a much later date, mares which conceived at the neighing of the
stallions of Babylon, and his friend Lycerus had a cat which went forth
every night to wring the necks of the cocks of Memphis:* the hippopotami
of the Theban lake, which troubled the rest of the King of Tanis, were
evidently of close kin to these extraordinary animals.

* Found in a popular story, which came in later times to be
associated with the traditions connected with AEsop.

The sequel is unfortunately lost. We may assume, however, without much
risk of error, that Saqnunri came forth safe and sound from the ordeal;
that Apopi was taken in his own trap, and saw himself driven to the dire
extremity of giving up Sutkhu for Amonra or of declaring war. He was
likely to adopt the latter alternative, and the end of the manuscript
would probably have related his defeat.

[Illustration: 106.jpg PALLATE OF Tiuaa]

Drawn from the original by Faucher-Gudin.

Hostilities continued for a century and a half from the time when
Saqnunri Tiuaa declared himself son of the Sun and king of the
two Egypts. From the moment in which he surrounded his name with a
cartouche, the princes of the Said threw in their lot with him, and the
XVIIth dynasty had its beginning on the day of his proclamation. The
strife at first was undecisive and without marked advantage to either
side: at length the Pharaoh whom the Greek copyists of Manetho call
Alisphragmouthosis, defeated the barbarians, drove them away from
Memphis and from the western plains of the Delta, and shut them up in
their entrenched camp at Avaris, between the Sebennytic branch of the
Nile and the Wady Tumilat. The monuments bearing on this period of
strife and misery are few in number, and it is a fortunate circumstance
if some insignificant object tarns up which would elsewhere be passed
over as unworthy of notice. One of the officials of Tiuaa I. has left us
his writing palette, on which the cartouches of his master are incised
with a rudeness baffling description.

We have also information of a prince of the blood, a king's son, Tuau,
who accompanied this same Pharaoh in his expeditions; and the Gizeh
Museum is proud of having in its possession the i wooden sabre which
this individual placed on the mummy of a certain Aqh