Thus Sanehat, the younger son
of Amenemhat I, when the death of his royal father was announced, fled
from the new king Usertsen (Senusret) into Palestine, and there married
the daughter of the chief Ammuanshi and became a Syrian chief himself,
only finally returning to Egypt as an old man on the assurance of the
royal pardon and favour. We have in the reign of Usertsen (Senusret) II
the famous visit of the Arab chief Abisha (Abeshu') with his following
to the court of Khnumhetep, the prince of the Oryx nome in Middle Egypt,
as we see it depicted on the walls of Khnumhetep's tomb at Beni Hasan.
We see Usertsen (Senusret) III invading Palestine to chastise the land
of Sekmem and the vile Syrians.*
* We know of this campaign from the interesting historical
stele of the general Sebek-khu (who took part in it), which
was found during Mr. Garstang's excavations at Abydos, not
previously referred to above. They were carried out in 1900,
and resulted in the complete clearance of a part of the
great cemetery which had been created during the XIIth
Dynasty. The group of objects from the tombs of this
cemetery, and those of XVIIIth Dynasty tombs also found, is
especially valuable as showing the styles of objects in use
at these two periods (see Garstang, el-Ardbah, 1901).
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