Ramses III. was followed by eleven kings of the same name (1244-1091 _B.C._). But the days of warlike expeditions were over. The inscriptions which have come down to us from these rulers only prove that their sovereignty was maintained over Nubia, and tell us of certain buildings which these princes also erected at Memphis.[232] Of Ramses XII. a memorial stone found in the temple of the moon-god Chunsu at Karnak--a deity to whom the house of Ramses paid especial honour--informs us that he elevated the daughter of the lord of the land of Buchten (or Bachtan) to be Queen of Egypt. When afterwards another daughter of the chief fell ill, he besought the king of Egypt for a wise man to cure her. The priest, whom Ramses sent, found the king's daughter possessed by a spirit, but he was too weak to contend with it. Then the chief of Buchten besought Ramses to send him a god to overcome the spirit. And Ramses sent the image of the god Chunsu from the temple at Thebes in a large boat, accompanied by five small boats and a chariot. The spirit gave way before the god, and the chieftain was in great joy, and refused to allow the god to return to Egypt, until in a dream he saw a golden hawk, which spread out its wings to fly to Egypt. On awaking he found himself seized by an illness. So he allowed the god to return to Egypt after he had kept him three years and nine months, and gave him many rich presents for the journey.[233] FOOTNOTES: [204] Herod. 2, 102-110. [205] Diod. 1, 53, 58. [206] Strabo, pp. 38, 686, 769, 770, 790, 804. [207] Tac. "Annal." 2, 60. [208] Joseph. "C. Apion." 1, 15; Euseb. "Arm." ed. Aucher, p. 230; "Sethos qui et Rameses." [209] Brugsch, _loc. cit._ p. 124. [210] Ebers, "Ægypten," s. 78. [211] Brugsch, _loc. cit._ p. 132. [212] Rosell. "Mon. Stor." 3, 1, 320 ff. [213] Brugsch, _loc. cit._ p. 136. [214] Rosell. "Mon. Stor." 3, 1, 315 ff.; Bunsen, "Ægypten," 4, 171; Brugsch, _loc. cit._ p. 128 ff.; cf. Brugsch, "Recueil," p. 59. [215] The lists allow him a reign of 61, 66, or 68 years. According to a memorial-stone discovered by Mariette at Abydus he reigned 67 years; cf. p. 160, note 1. [216] Lepsius, "Briefe," s. 373, and "Monatsberichte des Berl. Akad." 1866, s. 294, 297 ff. [217] Gen. 10, 16; Joshua 24, 11. [218] De Rougé, "Revue archéolog." 1867, 16, 36. [219] Brugsch, _loc. cit._ pp. 145, 146. [220] De Rougé, "Revue archéolog." 1866, 13, 269; Brugsch, "Hist. d'Egypte," p. 147. [221] Rosell. "Mon. Stor." 3, 2, 10-12, 24. [222] Lepsius, "Briefe," s. 239. [223] Rosell. "Mon. Stor." 3, 2, 1, 93, 94. [224] Brugsch, "Hist. d'Egypte," p. 151. [225] Herod. 2, 158; Aristot. "Metereol." 1. 14; Lepsius, "Chronolog." s. 349 ff. 357; Ebers ("Durch Gosen," s. 496) finds Pithom in Abu Soliman. [226] Rosell. "Mon. Stor." 3, 340 ff.; Ebers ("Ægypten," s. 781), relying on the Berlin papyrus I., regards the fortification as much older, and carries it as far as Suez.