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αὐτὸς ὥρων. At the mouth of the Nahr el Kelb near Beyrut there are three monuments cut in the face of the limestone rock, on one of which the name of Rameses II can be read; they commemorate the victorious campaigns of his early years (e. g. ‘year 4’). Beside them, in contempt, Esarhaddon has cut the account of his conquest of Egypt (circ. 670 B. C.; cf. Breasted, pp. 424, 556). They are figured in Lepsius, D. iii. 197. There is no trace of the αἰδοῖα on them now, nor is it likely there ever was.

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