SAUL TO THE CAPTIVITY
of Judah and Israel appear to be quite in accord with that of Thutmose: (1) The ephemerides of his Syrian campaign with lists of tribute, spoils, commissary supplies, etc., were deposited in the palace archives; (2) A register or documentary history, omitting the less interesting documents, was drawn up on a leather roll and deposited in the Temple library and (3) An abstract of this, with a priestly tendency, was drawn up and engraved on the walls of the temple. What was true of palace and temple archives was true also of special archives of special offices and of local archives. The records of the prosecution of the tomb robbers in the reign of Rameses IX, a few years perhaps before the birth of Samuel, are extant at length (Breasted 4:252-4) and the papyrus ends: "The documents thereof are: one roll; it is deposited in the office of the vizier's archives." On the other hand a papyrus of about this time
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