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From Readings In Ancient History, Illustrative Extracts From The Sources, Volume I. Greece and the East, by William Stearns Davis, with an Introduction by Willis Mason West; Allyn and Bacon; Boston; 1912; p. 5.

YEAR ~ 1450 B. C.

From an inscription recording the
conquests of Thutmosis III (about 1450 B.C.]

[Adapted from Breasted, “History of Egypt,” passim]¹

[In a more complacent vein are the following utterances of Thutmose (or Thothmes) III, a mighty warrior; and of Rameses III, who was among the last of the kings to keep up the best traditions of Egyptian royalty]

[The high god Amon¹ is assumed to be addressing the King thus:]

I have come, giving thee the mastery over the men of Asia.
Captive hast thou taken the chiefs of the Asiatics of Retenu:
I have made them behold thy glory — arrayed in thy panoply,
When thou hast taken their weapons in the chariot. . . .
I have come giving thee the mastery over the Islanders.
The dwellers afar in the vast sea hear thy thunders;
As an avenger I have made them behold thy glory, —
An avenger rising above his slain victims.

[And in like manner he boasts of conquering many other lands.]

NOTES

¹  Official head of the Egyptian pantheon and the great national deity.

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