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The following paper was read by Mr. T. G. Pinches, of the Oriental 

 Department of the British Museum, the author being unavoidably 

 absent. 



THE LIST OF SHESHONQ AT KARNAK. 



By G. Maspero. 



Translated hy Henry George Tomkins. 



ri"^HE list which Sheshonq I, caused to be sculptured of the 

 J_ towns that he had taken, or professed to have taken, 

 durirjg his campaign against Eehoboam, has often been 

 studied by Egyptologists. Champollion the younger ^' and 

 Osburnt extracted all that was possible at a period when 

 neither the structure of hieroglyphic writing nor the geo- 

 graphy of Palestine was well knowai. Brugsch has since 

 given a complete analysis % which has enabled Blau to 

 .propose a more serious explanation than any which had 

 hitherto been made. § The commentary of Blau, modified by 



* Champollion, Lettres e'crites d^Egypte, p. 99-100, Grammaire Egyp- 

 tienne, p. 160, and Jlowiments, Texte, T. II, p. 114. 



t Osburn, Egypt, her Testimony to the Truth, p. 158-162. 



X Brugsch, Geogr. Ins., T. II, p. 114. 



i^ Blau, jSisaqs Zug gegen Juda ans dem Denl-rnale hei Kurnah erldutert, 

 in the Zeitschrift der deutschen MorgenlUndischen Gcsdlschaft, T. XV, 

 p. 233 snq, 



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