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 39S REMARKABLE OBJECT OF THE REIGN OF AMENOPHIS III. Mutemua, and appears to have immediately succeeded his father, although perhaps under his mother's tutelage.^ Monuments, of the first 3'ear of his reign, existed in the quarries at Ed-deyr^ and at Tourah, and the last mentioned spot, "^as worked a second time in his second regnal vear.^ "to build the place of a miUions of years," as the palace is called. A tablet at Philae records- the arrival of the King there after his first campaign into the land of the Vile Kush — upon which occasion he had subjected Ark, or Alk, probably the place called Erchoas, Aur, or Aur.t — i. e. "the River," and Mer "the Sea," or "Meroe." Even at this early period he had assumed the title of Smiter of Mena foreigners, a name certainly applied to shepherds or nomads of the desert in a generical sense. In the interval -which elapsed between this and the tenth year of his reign, he had married the Queen Taiu, or Taitai, the mother of the Queen mentioned on the present shp of wood ; for, after the tenth year her name is constantly found on the public docu- ments. It is also evident, from the signal manner in which she is recorded, that she exercised high pohtical functions. Large scarabsei ^ of steaschist appear to have been issued upon the occasion, which record that the limits of the empire were Kaharaina on the north, and the Karu on the south ; in other words, extending from Mesopotamia, or the Aram Naharain. to the Chalaas,* its extreme limits under his prede- cessors. The Queen was not descended from the royal family, an important fact to be remembered. The name of her father •was lua, and that of her mother Tua, who are mentioned as private persons, but not as foreign chiefs. On some other scarabaei of large size, dated in his tenth year, is read that " The number of fierce lives taken by his Majesty's own arrows, commencing {sJiaa) in his first year and ending [iieferi) in the tenth year of liis reign, was 102." ^ A scarabaeus in the ration paid to his mother, as on the Vocal 4to. Dublin, 1847, on the Lettei-s of the Memnon. Burton, Exc. Hier., pi. xxx. Hieroglyphic, or ancient Egyptian Alpha- The tlirone is flanked by his mother and bet, p. 87, No. 3P, supposes the people to wife. Rosellini, Mon. Stor. i.,239. be the KAAAA. I have read then- name. ' Vyse's Pyramids, vol. iii. Tourah vol. ii., 347. Pliny, Nat. Hist., lib. vi., quarries. c. xix., s 35, mentions the GALL^. - Champollion, Mon. Eg. Not. Descr., '" Scarabaeus in the British Museum, !>• 164. B. M., No. 4097, engraved; Young's 'Rosellini, M.R.,xlvi. British Museum, Hierogh-phics,pl. 13; Descr. de I'Egypte, No. 4096. pi. 81, fig. 6. Reading from the context
 * This I infer from the extreme vene- •• Dr. Hincks, Trans. Roy. Ir. Acad.,
 * Mr. Gliddon's MS. Journal. Gallas. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lit., New Series,