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Names in Manetho. Monumental Names

18th Dynasty.-(Continued.) Years assigned. the whole historical importance of this date could not escape, sub- jected it to astronomical calculation. According to him this rising of Sirius must have taken place in the year 1444, before the Christian Era. This date admitted, the whole chronology of the XVIIIth dynasty would be in full disagreement with the astronomical result. But we should remark that according to the obser- vations of Lepsius, who has fixed the epoch of Tothmosis from 1603 to 1565, the Egyptian sculptor employed to carve the date in question upon the above-mentioned stone, committed a serious error, by adding a third small line which would to indi- cate the third instead of the second month of the tetrameny of heat. This would change the month Epiphi to go Paoni, and the date 1444 to that of 1580 or 1574 B. C. This supposition is, no doubt, very ingenious ; but its only basis is a slender line ! However, we do not see how, without the hypothesis of the learned Prussian, we could manage to logically very in APPENDIX.

Amesses. { Thothmes I.

Thothmes II.

Mephres.

Thothmes 111.

Mephramouthosis.

Amenoph II.

Thmosis.

Thothmes IV.

Amenophi.

Horus.

Amenoph III.

Horemheb.

Akencheres.

Usurping kings, con- Rathothis. temporaries of Akencheres.

Horemheb.

Akencheres. born under Prince Rasekenen, the prince or hac of Upper Egypt, before the expulsion of the Hycsos, lived and served successively under the four first kings of the XVIIIth dynasty. Amenoph III. is the Memnon of the Greeks. The reforms that he wished to introduce into the worship arouse a revolt and four usur- 242 ping kings reign over Egypt at the same time as Horemheb. The XVIIIth dynasty ends amid civil and religious troubles. Note. Upon the island of Elephantine. king Thothmes III. had caused a temple to be erected to the god of the cataracts, Chnum, but only a few detached stones now remain of it. On one of these there is clearly to be read the following inscription : "On the 28th day of the month Epiphi, the day of the appearance of the star Sopd (Sothis:) festival." The illustrious French astronomer, Biot, whom the whole historical importance of this date could not escape, subjected it to astronomical calculation. According to him this rising of Sirius must have taken place in the year 1444, before the Christian Era. This date admitted, the whole chronology of the