History Of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Vol. 2 — 36 - Vol. 02, Ch. 03: The First Theban Empire, pt. 12

Amenemhâît I. had abandoned Thebes as a residence in favour of Heracleopolis and Memphis, and had made it over to some personage who probably belonged to the royal household.

The nome of Ûisît had relapsed into the condition of a simple fief, and if we are as yet unable to establish the series of the princes who there succeeded each other contemporaneously with the Pharaohs, we at least know that all those whose names have come down to us played an important part in the history of their times.

Montûnsîsû, whose stele was engraved in the XXIVth year of Amenemhâît I. , and who died in the joint reign of this Pharaoh and his son Usirtasen I. , had taken his share in most of the wars conducted against neighbouring peoples,--the Anîtiû of Nubia, the Monîtû of Sinai, and the “Lords of the Sands:” he had dismantled their cities and razed their fortresses.

The principality retained no doubt the same boundaries which it had acquired under the first Antûfs, but Thebes itself grew daily larger, and gained in importance in proportion as its frontiers extended southward.

It had become, after the conquests of Usirtasen III.

, the very centre of the Egyptian world--a centre from which the power of the Pharaoh could equally well extend in a northerly direction towards the Sinaitic Peninsula and Libya, or towards the Red Sea and the “humiliated Kûsh” in the south.

The influence of its lords increased accordingly: under Amenemhâît III.

and Amenemhâît IV.

they were perhaps the most powerful of the great vassals, and when the crown slipped from the grasp of the XIIth dynasty, it fell into the hands of one of these feudatories.

It is not known how the transition was brought about which transferred the sovereignty from the elder to the younger branch of the family of Amenemhâît I. When Amenemhâît IV.

died, his nearest heir was a woman, his sister Sovkûnofriûrî: she retained the supreme authority for not quite four years,* and then resigned her position to a certain Sovkhotpû.

** * She reigned exactly three years, ten months, and eighteen days, according to the fragments of the “Royal Canon of Turin” (Lepsius, Auswahl der wichtigten Urkunden, pl.

v.

col. vii.

1. 2).

** Sovkhotpû Khûtoûirî, according to the present published versions of the Turin Papyrus, an identification which led Lieblein (Recherches sur la Chronologie Égyptienne, pp. 102, 103) and Wiedemann to reject the generally accepted assumption that this first king of the XIIIth dynasty was Sovkhotpû Sakhemkhûtoûirî.

Still, the way in which the monuments of Sovkhotpû Sakhemkhûtoûirî and his papyri are intermingled with the monuments of Amenemhâît III.

at Semneh and in the Fayûm, show that it is difficult to separate him from this monarch.

Moreover, an examination of the original Turin Papyrus shows that there is a tear before the word Khûtoûirî on the first cartouche, no indication of which appears in the facsimile, but which has, none the less, slightly damaged the initial solar disk and removed almost the whole of one sign.

We are, therefore, inclined to believe that _Sakhemkhûtoûirî_ was written instead of _Khûtoûirî_, and that, therefore, all the authorities are in the right, from their different points of view, and that the founder of the XIIIth dynasty was a Sakhemkhûtoûirî I. , while the Savkhotpû Sakhemkhûtoûirî, who occupies the fifteenth place in the dynasty, was a Sakhemkhûtoûirî II.

[Illustration: 408. jpg THE TOMBS OF PRINCES OF THE GAZELLE-NOME AT BENI-HASAN]

Drawn by Boudier, from a chromolithograph in Lepsius, Denkm.

, i. pl.

61. The first tomb on the left, of which the portico is shown, is that of Khnûmhotpû II.

Was there a revolution in the palace, or a popular rising, or a civil war?

Did the queen become the wife of the new sovereign, and thus bring about the change without a struggle?

Sovkhotpû was probably lord of Ûisît, and the dynasty which he founded is given by the native historians as of Theban origin.

His accession entailed no change in the Egyptian constitution; it merely consolidated the Theban supremacy, and gave it a recognized position.

Thebes became henceforth the head of the entire country: doubtless the kings did not at once forsake Heracleopolis and the Fayûm, but they made merely passing visits to these royal residences at considerable intervals, and after a few generations even these were given up.

Most of these sovereigns resided and built their Pyramids at Thebes, and the administration of the kingdom became centralized there.

The actual capital of a king was determined not so much by the locality from whence he ruled, as by the place where he reposed after death.

Thebes was the virtual capital of Egypt from the moment that its masters fixed on it as their burying-place.

Uncertainty again shrouds the history of the country after Sovkhotpû I. : not that monuments are lacking or names of kings, but the records of the many Sovkhotpûs and Nonrhotpûs found in a dozen places in the valley, furnish as yet no authentic means of ascertaining in what order to classify them.

The XIIIth dynasty contained, so it is said, sixty kings, who reigned for a period of over 453 years.

* * This is the number given in one of the lists of Manetho, in Muller-Didot, _Fragmenta Historicorum Græcorum_, vol. ii.

p. 565. Lepsius’s theory, according to which the shepherds overran Egypt from the end of the XIIth dynasty and tolerated the existence of two vassal dynasties, the XIIIth and XIVth, was disputed and refuted by E. de Rougé as soon as it appeared; we find the theory again in the works of some contemporary Egyptologists, but the majority of those who continued to support it have since abandoned their position.

The succession did not always take place in the direct line from father to son: several times, when interrupted by default of male heirs, it was renewed without any disturbance, thanks to the transmission of royal rights to their children by princesses, even when their husbands did not belong to the reigning family.

Monthotpû, the father of Sovkhotpu III.

, was an ordinary priest, and his name is constantly quoted by his son;

but solar blood flowed in the veins of his mother, and procured for him the crown.

The father of his successor, Nofirhotpû IL, did not belong to the reigning branch, or was only distantly connected with it, but his mother Kamâît was the daughter of Pharaoh, and that was sufficient to make her son of royal rank.

With careful investigation, we should probably find traces of several revolutions which changed the legitimate order of succession without, however, entailing a change of dynasty.

The Nofirhotpûs and Sovkhotpûs continued both at home and abroad the work so ably begun by the Amenemhâîts and the Usirtasens.

[Illustration: 410. jpg THE COLOSSAL STATUE OF KING SOVKHOTPU IN THE LOUVRE]

They devoted all their efforts to beautifying the principal towns of Egypt, and caused important works to be carried on in most of them--at Karnak, in the great temple of Amon, at Luxor, at Bubastis, at Tanis, at Tell-Mokhdam, and in the sanctuary of Abydos.

At the latter place, Khâsoshûshrî Nofirhotpû restored to Khontamentit considerable possessions which the god had lost; Nozirri sent thither one of his officers to restore the edifice built by Usirtasen I. ; Sovkûmsaûf II.

dedicated his own statue in this temple, and private individuals, following the example set them by their sovereigns, vied with each other in their gifts of votive stehe.

The pyramids of this period were of moderate size, and those princes who abandoned the custom of building them were content like Aûtûabrî I. Horû with a modest tomb, close to the gigantic pyramids of their ancestors.

In style the statues of this epoch show a certain inferiority when compared with the beautiful work of the XIIth dynasty: the proportions of the human figure are not so good, the modelling of the limbs is not so vigorous, the rendering of the features lacks individuality; the sculptors exhibit a tendency, which had been growing since the time of the Usirtasens, to represent all their sitters with the same smiling, commonplace type of countenance.

There are, however, among the statues of kings and private individuals which have come down to us, a few examples of really fine treatment.

The colossal statue of Sovkhotpû IV.

, which is now in the Louvre side by side with an ordinary-sized figure of the same Pharaoh, must have had a good effect when placed at the entrance to the temple at Tanis: his chest is thrown well forward, his head is erect, and we feel impressed by that noble dignity which the Memphite sculptors knew how to give to the bearing and features of the diorite Khephren enthroned at Gîzeh.

The sitting Mirmâshaû of Tanis lacks neither energy nor majesty, and the Sovkûmsaûf of Abydos, in spite of the roughness of its execution, decidedly holds its own among the other Pharaohs.

[Illustration: 414. jpg STATUE OF HARSÛF IN THE VIENNA MUSEUM] Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by Ernest de Bergmann.

From Dahshur, now at Gîzeh; it has been published in Morgan’s Dahshur.

The statuettes found in the tombs, and the smaller objects discovered in the ruins, are neither less carefully nor less successfully treated.

The little scribe at Gîzeh, in the attitude of walking, is a _chef d’oeuvre_ of delicacy and grace, and might be attributed to one of the best schools of the XIIth dynasty, did not the inscriptions oblige us to relegate it to the Theban art of the XIIIth.

The heavy and commonplace figure of the magnate now in the Vienna Museum is treated with a rather coarse realism, but exhibits nevertheless most skilful tooling.

It is not exclusively at Thebes, or at Tanis, or in any of the other great cities of Egypt, that we meet with excellent examples of work, or that we can prove that flourishing schools of sculpture existed at this period; probably there is scarcely any small town which would not furnish us at the present day, if careful excavation were carried out, with some monument or object worthy of being placed in a museum.

During the XIIIth dynasty both art and everything else in Egypt were fairly prosperous.

Nothing attained a very high standard, but, on the other hand, nothing fell below a certain level of respectable mediocrity.

Wealth exercised, however, an injurious influence upon artistic taste.

The funerary statue, for instance, which Aûtûabrî I. Horû ordered for himself was of ebony, and seems to have been inlaid originally with gold, whereas Kheops and Khephren were content to have theirs of alabaster and diorite.

[Illustration: 415. jpg STATUE OF SOVKHOTPÛ III.

] Drawn by Boudier, from the sketch by Lepsius; the head was “quite mutilated and separated from the bust.

” During this dynasty we hear nothing of the inhabitants of the Sinaitic Peninsula to the east, or of the Libyans to the west: it was in the south, in Ethiopia, that the Pharaohs expended all their surplus energy.

The most important of them, Sovkhotpu I. , had continued to register the height of the Nile on the rocks of Semneh, but after his time we are unable to say where the Nilometer was moved to, nor, indeed, who displaced it.

The middle basin of the river as far as Gebel-Barkal was soon incorporated with Egypt, and the population became quickly assimilated.

The colonization of the larger islands of Say and Argo took place first, as their isolation protected them from sudden attacks: certain princes of the XIIIth dynasty built temples there, and erected their statues within them, just as they would have done in any of the most peaceful districts of the Said or the Delta.

Argo is still at the present day one of the largest of these Nubian islands:* it is said to be 12 miles in length, and about 2 1/2 in width towards the middle.

* The description of Argo and its ruins is borrowed from Caillaud, Voyage à Méroé, vol. ii.

pp. 1-7. It is partly wooded, and vegetation grows there with tropical luxuriance; creeping plants climb from tree to tree, and form an almost impenetrable undergrowth, which swarms with game secure from the sportsman.

A score of villages are dotted about in the clearings, and are surrounded by carefully cultivated fields, in which durra predominates.

An unknown Pharaoh of the XIIIth dynasty built, near to the principal village, a temple of considerable size; it covered an area, whose limits may still easily be traced, of 174 feet wide by 292 long from east to west.

The main body of the building was of sandstone, probably brought from the quarries of Tombos: it has been pitilessly destroyed piecemeal by the inhabitants, and only a few insignificant fragments, on which some lines of hieroglyphs may still be deciphered, remain _in situ_.

A small statue of black granite of good workmanship is still standing in the midst of the ruins.

It represents Sovkhotpû III.

sitting, with his hands resting on his knees; the head, which has been mutilated, lies beside the body.

[Illustration: 417. jpg ONE OF THE OVERTURNED AND BROKEN STATUES OF MIRMASIIAÛ AT TANIS]

Drawn by Boudier, from the photograph in Rougé-Banville’s _Album photographique de la Mission de M. de Bougé_, No. 114. The same king erected colossal statues of himself at Tanis, Bubastis, and at Thebes: he was undisputed master of the whole Nile Valley, from near the spot where the river receives its last tributary to where it empties itself into the sea.

The making of Egypt was finally accomplished in his time, and if all its component parts were not as yet equally prosperous, the bond which connected them was strong enough to resist any attempt to break it, whether by civil discord within or invasions from without.

The country was not free from revolutions, and if we have no authority for stating that they were the cause of the downfall of the XIIIth dynasty, the lists of Manetho at least show that after that event the centre of Egyptian power was again shifted.

Thebes lost its supremacy, and the preponderating influence passed into the hands of sovereigns who were natives of the Delta.

Xoïs, situated in the midst of the marshes, between the Phatnitic and Sebennytic branches of the Nile, was one of those very ancient cities which had played but an insignificant part in shaping the destinies of the country.

By what combination of circumstances its princes succeeded in raising themselves to the throne of the Pharaohs, we know not: they numbered, so it was said, seventy-five kings, who reigned four hundred and eighty-four years, and whose mutilated names darken the pages of the Turin Papyrus.

The majority of them did little more than appear upon the throne, some reigning three years, others two, others a year or scarcely more than a few months: far from being a regularly constituted line of sovereigns, they appear rather to have been a series of Pretenders, mutually jealous of and deposing one another.

The feudal lords who had been so powerful under the Usirtasens had lost none of their prestige under the Sovkhotpûs: and the rivalries of usurpers of this kind, who seized the crown without being strong enough to keep it, may perhaps explain the long sequence of shadowy Pharaohs with curtailed reigns who constitute the XIVth dynasty.

They did not withdraw from Nubia, of that fact we are certain: but what did they achieve in the north and north-east of the empire?

The nomad tribes were showing signs of restlessness on the frontier, the peoples of the Tigris and Euphrates were already pushing the vanguards of their armies into Central Syria.

While Egypt had been bringing the valley of the Nile and the eastern corner of Africa into subjection, Chaldæa had imposed both her language and her laws upon the whole of that part of Western Asia which separated her from Egypt: the time was approaching when these two great civilized powers of the ancient world would meet each other face to face and come into fierce collision.

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