Account of the lions brought from Asia by his Majesty, namely: from the first year to the tenth, savage lions 102."
Another in the same Museum (582-787, Vitrine N.) This begins, as the preceding, with an eulogy of Amenophis III. and follows with: "The principal consort Taia, living, the name of her father (is) Auaa. The name of her mother (is) Tuaa, She is the consort of the victorious king whose frontiers (extend) to the south as far as Ka ro (or, Karai, perhaps Soudan,) to the north as far as Naharina," i.e., Mesopotamia. There are many other historical scarabs in this Museum but these have the longest and most important inscriptions.
Another scarab of this Pharaoh is in the collection of the Rev. W.J. Loftie, of London, England. It is large, 3½ inches long by 2¼ inches wide, it is made of steatite and glazed; it tells: "The number of fierce lions brought in by his majesty, and killed by him, from the beginning of his first (year) to the tenth year of his reign, were 102."[54]
FOOTNOTES:
[49] Egypt Under the Pharaohs, etc. London, 1891, p. 20.
[50] Historical Scarabs, etc., by W.M. Flinders Petrie. London, 1889, p. 14.
[51] Egypt Under the Pharaohs, by Brugsch-Bey. London, 1891, pp. 205, 206, 208.
[52] Records of the Past, Vol. XII., p. 37 et seq.
[53] Bunsen. Egypt's Place in Hist., etc., III., p. 142, etc.; also Records of Past, above cited.