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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt:...seen on some monuments of an earlier date, and on none of a later date than Amunothph, and this has led to a belief that it was done by one of his immediate successors. But we know of no change, but that here conjectured, which could have required the Chap. v. Xeexes--B.c. 484-464. 209 removal of the three letters, A M N, neither more nor less, out of the two names, and of no earlier king that could have wished for it. Moreover the British Museum furnishes us with one monument in which both the name and figure of the hawk-headed Mando-Ea (see Fig. 188) have been clearly made to take the place of Amun-Ea, while the bad style of workmanship proves the late date of the usurpation. (18) Egypt was now again independent, and its sacred soil no longer trod by the enemy; but its independence did not last long. The difference between being governed by Mandothph the Persian satrap and Mandothph the sovereign of Egypt did not rouse the Egyptians in his support. He was saved for one year by the death of Darius, and for another, perhaps, by Xerxes hardly feeling himself safe on the Persian throne; but in the second year of the reign of Xerxes (see Fig. 189), Mandothph was easily conquered, and the country again reduced to a Persian province. We know little of the three years of Mandothph's reign; the Burton'8 historians.vho speak of the rebellion do not Excerpta, even mention his name, and it is only p'3'6' known to us on two or three hieroglyphical inscriptions. One tells us that he was Persian satrap of Fig. 189. the country in the thirtieth year of the reign of Darius. Another is dated in the second year of his own reign. A third inscription is near the island panorrafa0' of Philse, and is a dedication to Mandoo, the sun, the god of Mendes, in Lower Egypt, of which c...