La lotta delle nazioni - Egitto, Siria e Assiria . odsiiu, con i suoi episodi che ne conseguono - la flogging delle spie, l'assalto al campo, la carica dei carri, la fuga dei Siriani - è il soggetto prediletto delle sue iscrizioni; E il poema di Pentauiitadds ai bassorilievi una descrizione degna degli atti rappresentati. ThisEpic riappare ovunque, a Nubia e In Detto, ad Abu Simbel, a Beit-Wally, a Derr, a Luxor, a Karnak, al Ramesseum e al«-amebbattaglia-scunos, con gli stessi testi allegati, riappaiono nel Memnonium, Tratto da Boudir, da un phot

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The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . odsiiu, with its attendant episodes—the flogging of the spies, the assault upon the camp, the charge of the chariots, the flight of the Syrians—is the favourite subject of his inscriptions; and the poem of Pentauiiitadds to the bas-reliefs a description worthy of the acts represented. ThisEpic reappears everywhere, in Nubia and in the Said, at Abu Simbel, at Beit-Wally, at Derr, at Luxor, at Karnak, and on the Ramesseum, and the .«amebattle-scunos, with the same accompanying texts, reappear in the Memnonium, Drawn by Boudicr, from a photogriipU by lieato ; the great blocks iu the foreground are thefragments of tlie colossal statue of Kamses II. 422 THE BE ACTION AGAINST EGYPT. whose half-ruined walls still crown the necropolis of Abydos.^ He had decidedupon the erection of this latter monument at the very beginning of his reign, and the artisans who had worked at the similar structure of Seti I. were em-ployed to cover its walls with admirable bas-reliefs. Kamses also laid claim to. I THE RUINS or THE MEMNONlfJI OF KAMSES II. AT ABYDOS. have his own resting-place at the Cleft; iu this privilege he associatedall the Pharaohs, from whom he imagined himself to be descended, and thesame list of their names, which we find engraved in the chapel of his father, appears on his building also.^ Some ruins, lying beyond Abydos, are tooformless to do more than indicate the site of some of his structures. Heenlarged the temple of Harshafitu and that of Osiris at Heracleopolis, and, toaccomplish these works the more promptly, his workmen had recourse formaterial to the royal towns of the IV and XII dynasties; the pyramidsof Usirtasen II. and Snofrui at Sledum suffered accordingly the loss of the bestpart of their covering.* He finished the mausoleum at Memphis, ^ and dedi-cated the statue which Seti had merely blocked out; he then set to workto fill the city with buildings of his own device—granite and sandstonechambers

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