Noun:

हीस्सोप,

hyksos's Usage Examples:

One of these bore the name of Apopi engraved lightly on the shoulder; this was evidently a usurper's mark, but from the whole circumstances it was concluded that these, and others of the same type of features found elsewhere, must have belonged to the Hyksos.

Petrie, Hyksos and Israelite Cities, p. 67; Golenischeff in Recueil de travaux, xv.

Their whole race was named Hyksos, i.e.

A large class of monuments was afterwards attributed to the Hyksos, probably in error.

These statues were later appropriated by the Hyksos, and so came to be called by their name, which is a misnomer.

Several Theban kings of the later part of the Middle Kingdom adopted the same name; and when the Theban family of the XVIIth dynasty drove out the Hyksos, Ammon, as the god of the royal city, was again prominent.

The horse seems to have been introduced with the chariot during the Hyksos period.

Meyer in giving, for reasons which cannot be here explained, for the beginning of the 1st dynasty c. B c. 3400, for the 4th dynasty c. B.C. 2900-2750, and for the rule of the Hyksos c. B.C. 1680-1580; and in his Researches in Sinai, 1906, p. 175, Petrie proposes for Menes B.C. 5510, and for the 4th dynasty B.C. 473 1 -4454.

Of the Hyksos age there are the scanty remains of a great fortified camp at Tell el-Yehudia.

It comprises some of the most notable figures in Egyptian history - Ahmosi (Amasis) I., who freed Egypt from the Hyksos, Tethmosis I.