Then there is an inscription taken in the temple of Khous, the God who had power over the elementaries, at Thebes. It was presented by M. Prisse d’Avenne to the Imperial—now National—Library of Paris, and was translated first by Mr. S. Birch. There is in it a whole romance of Magic. It dates from the day of Ramses XII.(468) of the twentieth dynasty; it is from the rendering of M. de Rougé as quoted by De Mirville, that we now translate it. This monument tells us that one of the Ramses of the twentieth dynasty, while collecting at Naharain the tributes paid to Egypt by the Asiatic nations, fell in love with a daughter of the chief of Bakhten, one of his tributaries, married her and, bringing her to Egypt with him, raised her to the dignity of Queen, under the royal name of Ranefrou. Soon afterwards the chief of Bakhten dispatched a messenger to Ramses, praying the assistance of Egyptian science for Bent‐Rosh, a young sister of the queen, attacked with illness in all her limbs. The messenger asked expressly that a “wise‐man” [an Initiate—Reh‐ Het] should be sent. The king gave orders that all the hierogrammatists of the palace and the guardians of the secret books of the Khen should be sent for, and choosing from among them the royal scribe Thoth‐em‐Hebi, an intelligent man, well versed in writing, charged him to examine the sickness. Arrived at Bakhten, Thoth‐em‐Hebi found that Bent‐Rosh was possessed by a Khou (Em‐seh‐’eru ker h’ou), but declared himself too weak to engage in a struggle with him.(469) Eleven years elapsed, and the young girl’s state did not improve. The chief of Bakhten again sent his messenger, and on his formal demand Khons‐peiri‐Seklerem‐Zam, one of the divine forms of Chons—God the Son in the Theban Trinity—was dispatched to Bakhten.... The God [incarnate] having saluted (_besa_) the patient, she felt immediately relieved, and the Khou who was in her manifested forthwith his intention of obeying the orders of the God. “O great God, who forcest the phantom to vanish,” said the Khou, “I am thy slave and I will return whence I came!”(470)