* The narrative of the Sallier Papyrus, No. 1, shows us the civil and military chiefs collected round the Shepherd- king Apopi, and escorting him in the solemn processions in honour of the gods.  They are followed by the scribes and magicians, who give him advice on important occasions.

** Hiqu Situ:  this is the title of Abisha at Beni-Hassan, which is also assumed by Khiani on several small monuments; Steindorff has attempted to connect it with the name of the Hyksos.

*** The preamble of the two or three Shepherd-kings of whom we know anything, contains the two cartouches, the special titles, and the names of Horus, which formed part of the title of the kings of pure Egyptian race; thus Apophis IL is proclaimed to be the living Horus, who joins the two earths in peace, the good god, Aqnunri, son of the Sun, Apopi, who lives for ever, on the statues of Mirmashau, which he had appropriated, and on the pink granite table of offerings in the Gizeh Museum.

**** The name of Baal, transcribed Baalu, is found on that of a certain Petebaalu, “the Gift of Baal,” who must have flourished in the time of the last shepherd-kings, or rather under the Theban kings of the XVIIth dynasty, who were their contemporaries, whose conclusions have been adopted by Brugsch.

^ Sutikhu, Sutkhu, are lengthened forms of Sutu, or Situ; and Chabas, who had at first denied the existence of the final Jehu, afterwards himself supplied the philological arguments which proved the correctness of the reading:  he rightly refused, however, to recognise in Sutikhu or Sutkhu —­the name of the conquerors’ god—­a transliteration of the Phoenician Sydyk, and would only see in it that of the nearest Egyptian deity.  This view is now accepted as the right one, and Sutkhu is regarded as the indigenous equivalent of the great Asiatic god, elsewhere called Baal, or supreme lord. [Professor Petrie found a scarab bearing the cartouche of “Sutekh” Apepi I. at Koptos.—­Te.]

He was usually represented as a fully armed warrior, wearing a helmet of circular form, ornamented with two plumes; but he also borrowed the emblematic animal of Sit, the fennec, and the winged griffin which haunted the deserts of the Thebaid.  His temples were erected in the cities of the Delta, side by side with the sanctuaries of the feudal gods, both at Bubastis and at Tanis.  Tanis, now made the capital, reopened its palaces, and acquired a fresh impetus from the royal presence within its walls.  Apophis Aq-nunri, one of its kings, dedicated several tables of offerings in that city, and engraved his cartouches upon the sphinxes and standing colossi of the Pharaohs of the XIIth and XIIIth dynasties.

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     Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by E. Brugsch.

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