Djehuty ( general ) Djehuty ( also known as Thuti and Thutii ) was a general under the ancient Egyptian king Thutmose III ( reign ed 1479 – 1425 BC ) in the 18th Dynasty . He is known as the main hero of the tale of " The Taking of Joppa " . Djehuty bears the titles " king ' s scribe " , " overseer of troops " ( general ) and " overseer of the northern foreign countries " in contemporary Egyptian records . Biography . Djehuty is known from two sources . His undisturbed burial was found in 1824 at Saqqara and he is the main personality in the Egyptian story of " The Taking of Joppa " ( today Jaffa ) . The Egyptian narrative is preserved on a papyrus now located in the British Museum ( EA 10060 ) . The city of Joppa had rebelled against Thutmose III ' s authority and the pharaoh responded by dispatching an Egyptian army under Djehuty to regain control over the city . Djehuty first cunningly arranged to have a parley or talk with the rebel leader of Joppa at a location outside of the city walls . Once he was alone with the leader of the rebellion , Djehuty promptly smote the man on his forehead and captured him . With this task accomplished , Djehuty decided to take control of the city by subterfuge . Djehuty first falsely proclaimed that he , Djehuty , had been defeated by the rebels and was now sending a " tribute " to the inhabitants of Joppa . The tribute came in the form of two hundred baskets which were delivered to Joppa as a peace offering by Djehuty . Unbeknownst to Joppa ' s inhabitants , however , each of the baskets concealed one of the two hundred of Djehuty ' s own soldiers . The governor of Joppa , fooled by Djehuty ' s ruse , had them taken into the city through its city gates . Soon after , Djehuty ' s soldiers rose out of their baskets and quickly captured the city and seized its citizens . The Egyptian description of the capture of Joppa is , hence , somewhat similar to the story of the Trojan Horse which occurred some two centuries later at Troy . With Joppa now firmly back in Egyptian hands , Djehuty sent word to his king , Thutmose III , of his triumph : General Djehuty ' s historicity . Djehuty was not a fictional person . In the winter of 1824 , Bernardino Drovetti found his completely undisturbed tomb at Saqqara . In these early days , Egyptian archaeology was in its infancy and only a few notes of the excavations were ever made . Today , there are only brief descriptions of the discovery preserved in archaeological records . The objects were sold to different museum collections all around the world and , in most cases , can only be ascribed with certainty to Djehuty ' s tomb when they bear his name . The objects found in the general ' s tomb include a solid golden and a silver bowl , both today in the Louvre , four canopic jar s now in Florence , the heart scarab , a gold bracelet in the Rijksmuseum of Leiden and Djehuty ' s dagger in Darmstadt . Nothing is known about Djehuty ' s coffin and mummy , although they were briefly mentioned by Drovetti . It is also believed that the Ashburnham ring , which is " one of the most spectacular pieces of Egyptian jewellery to be added to the [ British Museum ' s ] national collection for many years " also originated from General Djehuty ' s burial . The ring was originally purchased by the Earl of Ashburnham in Cairo in 1825 likely from the proceeds of excavation work carried out by Drovetti in Saqqara and Djehuty ' s tomb was only discovered in the previous year . This rectangular swivel , bezel ring weighs 35 . 8 grams and is inscribed on both its sides with the texts : " He of the Two Ladies , Great of terror in all lands " and " Menkheperre , beloved of Ptah , radiant of face . " Since Christine Lilyquist ' s study of Djehuty ' s gold bowl and other funerary objects showed that Djehuty was likely buried at Saqqara and not Thebes as originally assumed , it would appear that the Ashburnham ring came from Djehuty ' s tomb treasures . Djehuty ' s golden bowl in the Louvre contains an inscription which records that it was a gift by Thutmose III to his general :