fought so hard a battle, was undoubtedly on the Orontes, for the river which is depicted on the pylon of the Ramesseum as parting into two streams which wash the walls of the fortress, is called Aruntha, and in the Epos of Pentaur it is stated that this battle took place at Kadesh by the Orontes.

The name of the city survives, at a spot just three miles north of the lake of Riblah.

The battle itself I have described from the Epos of Pentaur, the national epic of Egypt.

It ends with these words: "This was written and made by the scribe Pentaur." It was so highly esteemed that it is engraved in stone twice at Luqsor, and once at Karnak.

Copies of it on papyrus are frequent; for instance, papyrus Sallier III.