Herod. 3, 37.
154
Herod. 3, 13.
155
Diod. "Exc. de legat." p. 619 = 10, 14.
156
Herod. 7, 69. Cf. Strabo, p. 802.
157
Herod. 3, 30.
158
Herod. 3, 17-26; Diod. 3, 1.
159
Vol. III. 63 ff. 159.
160
The name Miluhhi is nevertheless used so often in the inscription of the kings, and in such close connection with Egypt, that the kingdom of Napata may merely be meant. Assurbanipal tells us that his brother seduced into rebellion "the princes of Miluhhi whom he subjugated." Vol. III. 170.
161
Herod. 2, 29; Strabo, p. 786. Herodotus' statements, like those of the later authorities from Eratosthenes to Strabo and Pliny, have the second, more southern, Meroe in view, the ruins of which were found at Begerauieh, above the mouth of the Atbara, some 150 miles as the crow flies to the south of Napata. They describe this Meroe as situated on an island, because the Atbara was regarded as an arm of the Nile. The ruins at Begerauieh are less important and artistic than those of Napata, the hieroglyphics are of another kind. As the Persians maintained their hold on Napata, a new metropolis of the Ethiopian kingdom obviously grew up at this place after the times of Cambyses and Darius, which adopted the name and civilization of the old.
162
Strabo, p. 790; Diod. 1, 33.
163
"Antiq." 2, 10.
164
"Hymn." 26, 9.
165
"Hymn." 2, 146.
166
"Hymn." 7, 69.
167
"Hymn." 3, 97.
168
Diod. 3, 26, 33; Strabo, p. 772.
169
Plin. "H. N." 6, 35; Strabo, p. 822.
170
Herod. 2, 42.
171
Parthey, "Die Oase des Jupiter Ammon, Abh. Berl. Akad." 1862, s. 159 ff.
172
Belzoni, "Narrative," p. 398.
173
Ritter, "Erdkunde," 2, 1, 397.
174
Lepsius, "Trinuthis, Z. Aegypt. Sprache," 1874, s. 76 ff.
175
Herod. 3, 27-30.
176
Herod. 3, 37.
177
Vol. I. 175. Diod. 1, 49.
178