Al AND HERU-EM-HEB who added his name to it. On the name of the lion of Tut-iinkh-Amen is an inscription which shows that it was usurped by a later Nubian king called Amen-asru.

Under the next king, Ai, who succeeded to the throne through his marriage with the lady Thi, a kinswoman of Amen-hetep IV., the Nubians continued to pay tribute to Egypt, and on account of the efficient rule of Pa-ur, the Prince of Kash and the governor of the South, the king found it unnecessary to make any expedition into the Sudan. At Shataui, near Abu Simbel, Ai built a shrine, and on its reliefs we see him in company with a high official making offerings to Ptah, Ra, Horus, Sebek, Anuqet, and Satet, and to the deified king Usertsen III. It is important to note that no mention is made of Thothmes III., or Amen-hetep III., the first kings who attempted to administer the Sudan systematically.

By the time that Heru-em-heb, the last king of the XVIIIth Dynasty, ascended the throne, the priests of Amen and the people in general realized that the prosperity of the country of Egypt was not so great as when the tributes of Syria and Nubia were pouring into Thebes at frequent intervals and in large quantities. Heruem-heb was a wise and prudent ruler, and when he became king one of his first acts was to destroy the Het-Benben, or " Obelisk House," which the" heretic king," Amen-hetep IV., had set up in the midst of the buildingsofAmen-Ra at Thebes. He carried out many administrative reforms of a far-reaching character, and restored the temples of the old gods throughout the country, and re-endowed them with lands and other possessions. This done, he began to make arrangements for increasing the revenues of Egypt, and therefore planned expeditions into Syria and Nubia. Whether he succeeded in making the Syrian tribes pay tribute in any large quantity is extremely doubtful, but his expedition into Nubia appears to have been attended with good results. In a rock-hewn temple at Silsila we see" him dancing before the god Menu (Amsu), and in the text above it is said that he was " chosen [to be king] by Amen himself" " This statement is ' See Lepsius, Denkmdler, Abth. iii., 114 e-h. Ibid., 119-121. »V(1= -AAAAA I AAAAAA VOL. I. 62=; S S