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Updated: June 9, 2025
The seriousness with which Mentezufis had thought fit to lay bare a small part of the secrets long known to Ramses filled him with contempt and delight also. "This trickster," thought the prince, "has not an inkling in his heart that I know all their villainy." "The worthy Sargon and the revered Istubar," continued Mentezufis, "will go to Memphis to kiss the feet of his holiness.
At that moment the elephants entered, the Egyptian and Assyrian trumpets roared, the troops of both armies raised their weapons, the people fell on their faces, while the Assyrian dignitaries, Sargon and Istubar, were descending from their litters. In the hall Prince Ramses sat on an elevated chair beneath a baldachin, while at the entrance door appeared the herald.
While going out, he thought that the Assyrians, though barbarians, were not evil minded, since they knew how to respond to magnanimity. Sargon was so touched that he gave order immediately to bring wine, and he drank from midday till evening. Some time after sunset the priest, Istubar, left Sargon's chamber for a while; he returned soon, but through a concealed doorway.
"I knew not," said he, "that I, a relative and an ambassador of the great Assar, should be forced to wipe with my garments dust from the pavement of an Egyptian viceroy." Mentezufis knew Assyrian, and commanded, without asking Ramses, to bring immediately two benches covered with cushions, on which sat at once the panting Sargon and the calm Istubar.
But when Istubar interpreted the words of the Egyptian viceroy, the ambassador felt such delight that he beat his head against the couch, repeating the names Ramses and Assar. When he had calmed himself, and made excuses for the wretched state in which so worthy and famous a guest had found him, he added,
"Most worthy lord," said he, turning to the heir, "the ambassador of the great King Assar, the renowned Sargon, and his associate, the pious prophet Istubar, desire to salute thee and render thee honor as viceroy and heir to the pharaoh, may he live through eternity!" "Ask those dignitaries to enter and comfort my heart by the sight of their persons," answered the viceroy.
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