Identifier: cu31924091767503 (find matches)
Title: History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916 Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933 McClure, M. L., d. 1918
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient History, Ancient
Publisher: London : Grolier Society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ook place about 693 B.C.,* and Taharqa employedthe opening years of his reign in consolidating his authorityover the double kingdom. He married the widow ofSabaco, Queen Dikahitamanu, and thus assumed theguardianship of Tanuatamanu, her son by her first husband,and this marriage secured him supreme authority in ^ His name or monuments of his erection have been discovered atKarnak. 2 Eusebius, who cites the fact, had his information from a trustworthyGreek source, perhaps from Manetho himself. The inscription of Tanis seemsto say that Taharqa was twenty years old at the time of his revolt. 3 Most of the lists of kings taken from Manetho assign twelve years tothe reign of S^bikhos; one alone, that of Africanus, assigns him fourteenyears. EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS—TAHARQA 139 Ethiopia.^ That he regarded Egypt as a conquered countrycan no longer be doubted, seeing that he inserted its nameon his monuments among those of the nations which hehad vanquished. He nevertheless felt obliged to treat it
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TAHAEQA AND HIS QUEEN DIKAHITAMANU. with consideration; he respected the rights of the feudalprinces, and behaved himself in every way like a Pharaohof the old royal line. He summoned his mother from 1 The text of several documents only mentioned that Tanuata-manu wasthe son of his wife, which Oppert interpreted to mean son of Taharqahimself, while others see in him a son of Kashto, a brother of Amenertas, ora son of Shabltoku. 2 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from the coloured plate in Lepsius. 140 THE POWER OP ASSYRIA AT ITS ZENITH Napata, where he had left her, and after proclaiming herregent of the South and the North, he associated her withhimseK in the rejoicings at his coronation. This ceremony,celebrated at Tanis with the usages customary in the Delta,was repeated at Karnak in accordance with the Thebanritual, and a chapel erected shortly afterwards on thenorthern quay of the great sacred lake has preserved to usthe memory of it. Akaluka, installed with the rank andprerogatives of th

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