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THE WARS OF SETHOS I .By R. O. FAULKNER

To occupy space in a still-attenuatedJournal with yet another paper on the wars of Imperial Egypt perhaps requires some justification. But it is a curious fact that none

ot the standard histories present a very clear picture of the campaigns by means of which sethos I sought to restore the shattered ernpire df Egypt; the chionotägical order of his expeditions is left somewhat unöertain and the."-p"ig.r. themselvesias is perhaps'inevitable in general histories, are treated somewhat surimarily. This then is my excuse for returning to a rather threadbare topic. Thb chaotic conditions which prevailed within the land of Egypt after the collapse of the Atenist revolution naturally prevented for the time beirig äny serious attempt to recover the lost Egyptian empire in Asia. f,{aremfrab, on whäse shoulders the tast< of reconstruction mainly fell, did indeed, as commander-in-chief to the young king Tutcankhamün, lead an expedition into palestine, for in an inscription which can dati

only from this reign he sp-eaks of'guarding the feet of his lard on the battlefeld. on the day slarw the Asiatics';r Tut