HISTORICAL INSCRIPTIO~S OF RA~IESES II 1. TRA~SLATED BY PROFESSOR .AUGUST EISE.1'LOIlR TIlE First Series of the Records of lite Past contained in vol. vi. and vol. viii. three texts of the reign of H ameses II L, firstly (vol. vi. 17 ff.) , the address of the god Amon Ra to the king and the names of the vanquished nations, who are fettered wit.h cords grasped by the hand of the god and his companion, the local goddess of Thebes, taken from the 1st pylon of lVfed,net Habu (left side); secondly, the great Papyrus Harris, of whose 79 leaves the five last (vol. viii. p. 45 ff.) are of the highest imparlance for the age of Rameses [1 I., as they teach us that his father, Seti-nekht, made an end of a state of political and religious anarchy, and that Rameses himself, after having defeated the Daanauna, the Zakaru, the Pulsata, the Shardana, and Uashash on the sea coast, subdued the tribes of the Bedouin and repulsed the Libyan populations on the -vest side, bringing
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