402 EEMARKABLE OBJECT OF THE REIGN OF AMENOPHIS III. be identified, or compared with those of other Hsts, and with the names given by Strabo, Ptolemy, and Phny, yet the know- ledge of the ancient geography of Africa is extremely unsatis- factoiy. Still more difficult is it to arrange the lists of the prisoners of Soleb, which are dispersed in groups round the bases of the column, and have been published without any indication whether the names are those of Asiatics or Negroes. Added to this difficulty is their mutilated condition, which prevents many of them being read with certainty. By the aid, however, of the other Ethnic lists, many of these names may be restored. To commence, then, with the Southern conquests, following the numbers of Sir Gardner Wilkinson's lists : — besides the Turusu (No. 24), the Shaurusheki (No. 41), the Akenes (No. 42), are the Buka (No. 10),^ the Taru- taru,'^ (No. 23), resembling the above Taruat, the Taru-seni (No. 29), or Darsenu,^ the Taru Benka, or Darbenge,'* (No. 30), the Karuses, or Garsoos (No. 4), and possibly the Serunik^ (No. 2), the Khaui, or Zawas^ (No. 5), and the She- genane.^ Of the Northern enemies of Egypt Naharaina, or Mesopotamia (No. 6), Saenkaru (No. 7), or the Sinjar, Nin . ... or Nineveh (No. 37),^ Patana, or Paddan-Aram (No. 18), Atesh, or Kadesh,^ the capital of the Hittites, situate on the banks of the river Arunata (No. 8), the Shasu, or Shepherds ^ (No. 11), P-hen .t (No. 12),^ the Sam (No. 14),^ the Mena en sliaa, or Nomads of the Waste 1 The Bogges or Bejas, Gliddon, 1. c. seated on the Arunata, see Rosellini, The Bougaitte of the Axumite inscription. M. R., No. cii, 1., " His majesty is about Salt, Travels, p. 4 11, and the Boggia, Pliny, to overthrow them, one after another, in 1. c. the river Arunata." (Orontes). - Also Tantarene, Pliny, 1. c. ' The word shas does not mean " shep- 3 Ethnic tables. 1. c. herd" in the hieroglyphics, but " to cross."
- Occur also in the Ethnic table of Lepsius, Todtenbuch. xlix. 125—53.
Sethos I., Rosellini, M. R., No. Ixi. Hence their name might mean Nomads.
- Cf the Ethnic table. 1. c, possibly the They are probably the Zuz-im. Osburn,
so-called Sileni. Egypt, p. 121.
- The Chaui occurs on the Ethnic - Perhaps the Eastern desert. Wilkin-
tables. son, Man. Gust. Cailliaud, ii., Ixxiii. Lep- 7 Ethnic tables. 1. c. sius, Einleit. ii. s. 286. Cf. however, tiie 8 See the Karnak tablet, Trans. R. S. fortress attacked by Rameses II. Rosel- Lit. 1. c, for conquest of Nineveh. liui, M. R., No. cviii., and Osburn's Egypt, 9 The difficulty of reading this name p. 156, 157 (No. 28, 39), identification with has been engrossed by the observation, Punn, or ifvvri. Lepsius Einleitung, s. 76. Generally ^ I read this word Sam, comparing it the initial has the force of .4.% Bunsen, with that of /Sam, fodder. Young, Hier. Egypts. Place, 558. 14. 16, which would PI. 59. The name is like that, Sliemmo, make it .4s^^ or Astesh, a name much like Coptice for foreigner, or Skem, the Asdod, "rsivx or Azotus. The other word Shemetic races. They might be the reads Katesh, or Kadesh, which is like Zamzumim. Kadutis. Herodotus, ii., 159. For its being
