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 400 REMARKABLE OBJECT OF THE REIGX OF AMENOPHIS III. 250 head of the Nahsi, or Negroes, and 55 satem ash,"^ judges (or auditors of plaints), probably village rulers, or sheikhs, with 175 of their children, making a total of 740 hving head of people. Besides these were 312 preserved hands (tid-u ari-u)^ making a grand total of 1052. This took place during the local administration of Meri-mes, a royal scribe, or secretary of state, who had been appointed the Prince of Kush, or iEthiopia. The jurisdiction of this prince probably extended to Syene, and he has recorded a proscynema to the name of Amenophis III. on the rocks of Bigghe.* In a tomb at Thebes, of a person deceased, in the reign of the King, several Asiatic and Negro prisoners are represented. In one part the monarch is seated on his throne, attended by the goddess Athor, who gives him life, and a rich collar. A crowd of military officers and foreigners prostrate their faces to the ground, and have laid tusks of ivory, ostrich feathers, panther skins, and baskets of ores, or metals, before the King.^ In another sepulchre,^ Amenophis receives the account of the corn raised in his thirtieth^ 3^ear from the storekeepers of granaries and governors of Upper and Lower Egypt. Round his throne are ten Asiatic prisoners, representing the nations vanquished by Egypt. There are the Northern lands, Seba, the South lands, Sam,^ the North, Petama,^ Tahennu^ Pet, or Phut,^ the Mena en sliaci^ or Nomads of the Waste. On N. Africa, 8vo., New York, 1844, p. 110, gives tlie xxxv. year, or even xxxvi. Ibid. similar to the Heb. riD mat. It may s. 115. possibly refer to ccistniti, Arabic maJchsi. ^ This name occwrs in all the great - The words satcmash, are two well- Ethnic tables. Wilkinson, Mat. Hier., known Egyptian words, signifying to hear pi. viii ; Rosellini, M. R., No. Ixi. plaints. JBunsen, 1. c. p. 558, 15, 458, 100. ^ Cf. Wilkinson and Rosellini, 1. c. It occurs frequently, as satem ash en ma, ^ Great difficulty is experienced to — hearer of the cry of the place of Truth decide whom the Taliennu are intended or Judge. ChampoUion, Diet, 122. This for. A substance called Hat en tahmitt, difters from the word " chief," written ur heart or essence of the Tahennu, is men- or hut; the Coptic hello — the Englisli old, tioned at the twelfth dynasty. eld-er. Bunsen, 1. e. 570, 5. Several Tiiey were the most Northern people monuments of judges are given in the known to Egypt (cf. ChampoUion, Lettres Tablets and other Egyptian monuments, Ecrites), and are often called Tumahu, or from the collections of the Earl of Bel- Tenmahu. Rosellini, il. R, No. clix. more. Fo. London, 1843. Mr. Osburn, Eiiypt her Testimony, p. clix. 3 The word hand generally means a supposes the Tahennu to be the Hittites, dead or slain enemy, whose hands were and the Tamahu to be the Hamathites. counted. Cf. Rosellini, M. R., No. cxxxii, Colonel Mure, Annali, 1836, p. 1 — 20. No. cxxxv. It would appear from this - The Libyans, according to most inscription that the hands were preserved authorities. This name in the precited literally guareUd, and carried back to Ethnic tables is determined by a pool, Egypt ; the hand was called Jeep, the showing that it is a maritime or fluvial phallus, karunatu. RoseUini, 1. c. country. It often appears as a genei'ic ''' Pri.sse, Mon. Egypt., pi. xxxix. Laborde, Voy. Arab. Petr., pi. ' Bunsen, /Egyptens Stelle, B. iii., s. 77, ^ The reading of the latter part of this
 * ChampoUion, Not. descr. p. 161. name for foreigners, thus Cheops conquers
 * Ibid. the Peti or Phut at the Wady Magara.