apparent security by this inroad of barbarians, regarded them as a fresh incursion of the Hyksos, and applied to these southerners the opprobrious term of “Fever-stricken,” already used to denote their Asiatic conquerors.  The enemy descended the Nile, committing terrible atrocities, and polluting every sanctuary of the Theban gods which came within their reach.  They had reached a spot called Tentoa,* before they fell in with the Egyptian troops.  Ahmosi-si-Abina again distinguished himself in the engagement.  The vessel which he commanded, probably the Rising in Memphis, ran alongside the chief galliot of the Sudanese fleet, and took possession of it after a struggle, in which Ahmosi made two of the enemy’s sailors prisoners with his own hand.  The king generously rewarded those whose valour had thus turned the day in his favour, for the danger had appeared to him critical; he allotted to every man on board the victorious vessel five slaves, and five ancra of land situated in his native province of each respectively.  The invasion was not without its natural consequences to Egypt itself.

* The name of this locality does not occur elsewhere; it would seem to refer, not to a village, but rather to a canal, or the branch of a river, or a harbour somewhere along the Nile.  I am unable to locate it definitely, but am inclined to think we ought to look for it, if not in Egypt itself, at any rate in that part of Nubia which is nearest to Egypt.  M. Revillout, taking up a theory which had been abandoned by Chabas, recognising in this expedition an offensive incursion of the Shepherds, suggests that Tantoa may be the modern Tantah in the Delta.

A certain Titianu, who appears to have been at the head of a powerful faction, rose in rebellion at some place not named in the narrative, but in the rear of the army.  The rapidity with which Ahmosis repulsed the Nubians, and turned upon his new enemy, completely baffled the latter’s plans, and he and his followers were cut to pieces, but the danger had for the moment been serious.* It was, if not the last expedition undertaken in this reign, at least the last commanded by the Pharaoh in person.  By his activity and courage Ahmosis had well earned the right to pass the remainder of his days in peace.

* The wording of the text is so much condensed that it is difficult to be sure of its moaning.  Modern scholars agree with Brugsch that Titianu is the name of a man, but several Egyptologists believe its bearer to have been chief of the Ethiopian tribes, while others think him to have been a rebellious Egyptian prince, or a king of the Shepherds, or give up the task of identification in despair.  The tortuous wording of the text, and the expressions which occur in it, seem to indicate that the rebel was a prince of the royal blood, and even that the name he bears was not his real one.  Later on we shall find that, on a similar occasion, the official documents refer to a prince who took part in a plot