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of the statues of the Hyksos is clad in the panthers skin 
which was the robe of a high order of Egyptian priesthood. 
Quite to the point is the curious fact adduced by Brugsch* * 
of the foreign Semitic names chosen by a family attached to 
the temple of Amon at Thebes (much more remote than On) 
for six generations back from the second king of the restored 
Egyptian monarchy (XVIIItk dynasty), Amenhotep I. In 
the sixth generation back he finds the Theban priest bear the 
name of Pet-Ba’al, “ servant of Ba’al,” with which we may 
compare the Ba^al-mohar of a later period. f By the way, 
this old Egyptianized name, Pet-Ba'al, is the equivalent of 
Hannibal, and Ba'al-mohar of Maharbal, Phoenician names 
both. 
In fact, quite an amusing fashion had set in of aping the 
names and ways of the foreigners, just such as in the time of 
Edward the Confessor had already begun in England, the 
foreshadow of the Norman conquest. 
The same habit sprang up again with fresh vigour in Egypt 
with Seti I., and flourished under the XIXth dynasty. 
“ We will simply put the question,” writes Brugsch, J “if 
those foreign kings were in fact desecrators of the temples, 
devastators and destroyers of the works of bygone ages, 
how is it that these ancient works, although only the last 
remains of them, still exist, and especially in the chief seats 
of the Hyksos dominion, and further, that these foreign 
kings allowed their names to be engraved as memorial wit- 
nesses on the works of the native Pharaohs ? Instead of 
destroying they preserved them, and sought by appropriate 
measures to perpetuate themselves and their remembrance 
on the monuments already existing of former rulers.” 
“ Zoan (Tanis), the capital of the Egyptian Eastern provinces, 
with its world of temples and statues of the times of the 
Vlth, Xllth, and XIHth dynasties, had so little to suffer 
from the Hyksos that, on the contrary, these princes thought 
it incumbent upon them to increase the splendour of their 
vast temple-town by their own constructions, although in a 
Semitic style of execution.” 
In connection with the early intrusion of the Hyksos leaven, 
it is worth notice that the name Baba occurs in the pedigree 
of a great Egyptian family of the time of the XIHth dynasty 
given by Brugsch, and within the first quarter of the numerous 
kings of that dynasty. The same name. Baba, was borne by 
the father of Aahmes the captain, who fought against the 
* Hist, I. 255. 
f Histoire, I. 142. 
+ Hist. I. 255. 
