[Illustration: 372.jpg THUTMOSIS III., FROM HIS STATUE IN THE TURIN MUSEUM] Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Petrie. A complete political change was effected both at home and abroad from the first day of his accession to power. Hatshopsitu had been averse to war. During the whole of her reign there had not been a single campaign undertaken beyond the isthmus of Suez, and by the end of her life she had lost nearly all that her father had gained in Syria; the people of Kharu had shaken off the yoke,* probably at the instigation of the king of the Amorites,** and nothing remained to Egypt of the Asiatic province but Gaza, Sharuhana,*** and the neighbouring villages. The young king set out with his army in the latter days of the year XXII. He reached Gaza on the 3rd of the month of Pakhons, in time to keep the anniversary of his coronation in that town, and to inaugurate the 24th year of his reign by festivals in honour of his father Amon.**** They lasted the usual length of time, and all the departments of State took part in them, but it was not a propitious moment for lengthy ceremonies. * E. de Rouge thought that he had discovered, in a slightly damaged inscription bearing upon the Puanit expedition, the mention of a tribute paid by the Lotanu. There is nothing in the passage cited but the mention of the usual annual dues paid by the chiefs of Puanit and of the Ilim. ** This is at least what may be inferred from the account of the campaign, where the Prince of Qodshu, a town of the Amauru (Amorites), figures at the head of the coalition formed against Thutmosis III. *** This is the conclusion to be adopted from the beginning of the inscription of Thutmosis III.: "Now, during the duration of these same years, the country of the Lotanu was in discord until other times succeeded them, when the people who were in the town of Sharuhana, from the town of Yurza, to the most distant regions of the earth, succeeded in making a revolt against his Majesty." **** The account of this campaign has been preserved to us on a wall adjoining the granite sanctuary at Karnak.