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Updated: May 19, 2025
Kama delayed her coming; she implored the prince to leave her in peace till the inflow of pilgrims diminished, and above all till the most noted among them should go from Pi-Bast. Were she to become his favorite during their presence, the income of the temple might decrease and danger threaten the priestess. "Our sages and great men," said she to Ramses, "would forgive me.
The Nile had overflowed widely, and the prince wished to be present at the passage of fords and canals. At sunrise the last army chariot was far outside the city, and the worthy nomarch of Pi-Bast said to his servants, "I am going to sleep now, and woe to the man who rouses me before the hour of our feast in the evening!
In the city of Pi-Bast and its environs the concourse of people had begun, because of heat, to diminish. But the court of Ramses amused itself always, and people talked of what had happened in the amphitheatre.
At last he ceased to visit the regiments stationed at Pi-Bast, but assembling at the palace all the young nobles, he amused himself and feasted, repressing in his heart indignation at the priests and anxiety for the fate of the country. "Thou wilt see!" said he once to Tutmosis.
"I am the chief of police in Pi-Bast, and, with my centurions, am pursuing a great criminal," answered one of them. "We are overseers of the labyrinth and are following the same person." The groups looked at each other with hands on their swords or knives. "What will ye do with him?" asked the chief of police. "We have a sentence against the man." "But will ye leave the body?"
"But hast Thou proof that Mefres imprisoned Lykon in Pi-Bast, that he brought him to Thebes, and that he lets him enter the gardens of the pharaoh to counterfeit the sovereign as insane?" "Just because I have not proof of this do I ask thee, worthiness, what to do. I am the commander of the guard and I must watch over the honor and safety of our sovereign." "What Thou must do?" repeated Antefa.
When he had greeted the prince, with an official mien, the prophet took the seat indicated, and began, "From the Memphis palace of the lord of eternity they have informed me that in recent days the Chaldean high priest Istubar, the court astrologer and counselor of his grace King Assar, has come to Pi-Bast."
The torrent of people and goods moving toward the city was as noisy and dense as that outside Memphis in the holiday season. Around Pi-Bast reigned throughout the whole year the uproar of a market-day, which ceased only in the night time. The cause of this was simple. In that city stood the renowned and ancient temple of Astarte.
The high priest, Mefres, seeing that he had two votes against him, yielded in the matter of a complaint. But he remembered the insult from the prince and hid ill-will in his bosom. BY advice of astrologers the headquarters were to move from Pi-Bast on the seventh day of Hator. For that day was "good, good, good."
Sargon did not even once burst into loud laughter, though that was his custom; he cast down his eyes and thought deeply. But the two priests Istubar, the Chaldean, and Mentezufis, the Egyptian were calm, like men to whom the future is known, and who command it. AFTER his reception by the viceroy, Sargon delayed at Pi-Bast, waiting for letters from the pharaoh at Memphis.
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