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Manners and Customs of the Egyptians: Rameses

THE details collected by Herodotus with regard to the civil and private life of the Egyptians are of nine centuries later date than the epoch of Rameses Mei-Amoun. Those which the grottoes of Beni-Hassan yield us relate to generations long preceding that conqueror. Nevertheless, the lapse of time does not appear to have introduced any noticeable dissimilarities between them. We think that we can fill them out with ideas upon the connection of temples with temples and the diplomatic relations of sovereigns with sovereigns at a period of history when the sceptre of Egypt was still held by the Pharaohs of the name and blood of Rameses.

These items of information are yielded us by a stele found at Thebes among the ruins of a temple of Khons, a divinity who appears to have been the object of a special kind of worship, and to have enjoyed a renown that was propagated as far as the centre of Asia.