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pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

A champion of the Tenu came to defy me in my tent: a bold man without equal, for he had vanquished the whole country.

Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty 1897

Upper Tenu -- sent for me and said: "Dwell thou with me that thou mayest hear the speech of Egypt."

Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty 1897

The allusion to the Tenu belonging to Pharaoh, like his dogs, is peculiarly fitting to this period, as the dog seems to have been more familiarly domesticated in the XIth and XIIth

Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty 1897

Tenu, and his civilisation won for him the confidence which many wandering Englishmen now find in Africa or Polynesia, like John Dunn.

Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty 1897

At dawn the land of the Tenu came together; it had gathered its tribes and called all the neighbouring people, it spake of nothing but the fight.

Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty 1897

The set combat of two champions seems -- by the large gathering -- to have been a well-recognised custom among the Tenu, while it exactly accords with Goliath's offer in later times.

Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty 1897

Sanehat the upper Tenu who held the hills were opposed to the Tenu in general who held the plains; later on the Semites of the hills opposed the Philistines of the plain, and now the _fellah_ of the hills opposes the Bedawi of the plain.

Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty 1897

The Sati who went far, to strike and turn back the princes of other lands, I ordained their goings; for the Prince of the Tenu for many years appointed me to be general of his soldiers.

Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty 1897

The Tenu who came to defy Sanehat, being in opposition to the upper Tenu, were probably those of the plain; and the opposition to Sanehat may have arisen from his encroaching on the fertile plain at the foot of his hills, as he was in the best of the land "on the border of the next land."

Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty 1897