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Names in Manetho (II)

Nit-aker.

Nefer-ka.

Neferes.

Memphis because the kings that compose them have their burial Chafra being the brother, and Men-ka-ra, the son of Chuffu [for Cheops]; how much must be deducted to render acceptable to serious history the total of 192 years assigned to them in the opposite column? Manetho causes the mention of this dynasty and of the following one of Elephantina, and ascribes to them the Southern extremity of Egypt as the centre of their power. Mr. Brugsch carries both of them to Memphis because the kings that compose them have their burial place in that city. This is a question of principle very open to discussion. At that first epoch of the regulation of Egyptian society, when all the living fetiches of the Egyptian clans-cats, dogs, jackals, ibis, ichneumons, oxen, crocodiles, had their places of burial marked in a certain appointed spot in the valley of the Nile, why should not the kings, princes, and petty rulers of that same valley, wish to be interred together in one place, consecrated for religious or traditional motives? 203 This dynasty is one of the most curious to study. 1st, It opens with a king killed by his guards on account of his tyranny. 2d, It contains 36 two names: Mentu-hotep belonging to the 11th dynasty, the contemporaneousness of which is proved by by this fact. 3d, A stele rela- 53 ting to a great dignitary named Una, who lived under the kings, Teta, 100 Papi and Rameri, proves superbundantly that these kings succeeded each other without discontinuation, and how much faith is to be 66 12 placed in the 100 years of the reign of the second of them. We should not speak of Queen Nitocris, if Herodotus had not mentioned her as coming from Babylon, which would indicate an intrusion of Asiatics into Egypt about that period.