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The Syrian camp was, however, taken, together with vast treasures in silver and gold, lapis lazuli, turquoise, and alabaster, and the son of the king of Kadesh fell into Thothmes' hands.

Among these we find enumerated gold and silver ornaments, lapis lazuli, vases of Assyrian stone (alabaster?
), slaves, chariots adorned with gold and silver, silver dishes and silver beaten out into sheets, incense, wine, honey, ivory, cedar and sycomore wood, mulberry trees, vines, and fig trees, buffaloes, bulls, and a gold habergeon with a border of lapis lazuli.

At last you arrive at the close of all?the vaulted hall, in the centre of which lies the immense alabaster sarcophagus, which ought to contain the body of the king.

The statues of the gods, the gold and silver, the turquoise and lapis lazuli, the vases, censers, jars, goblets, amphorae, the stores of ivory, ebony, cinnamon, frankincense, fine linen, crystal, jasper, alabaster, embroidery, with which the piety of kings had enriched the temples?especially the Great Temple of Phthah?during fifteen or twenty centuries, were ruthlessly carried off by the conquerors, who destined them either for the adornment of the Ninevite shrines or for their ownprivate advantage.



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