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The Names of Rameses II: Amenoph

THE IMAGES OF ANCESTORS, (p. 79.) THE small statues of the ancestors and predecessors of Rameses II., which the musal paintings represent as figuring at the panegyric of his coronation, are only thirteen in number. They are, besides those of his father Seti and his grandfather Rameses I., those of nine lawful kings of the 18th dynasty. Aahmes, Amenoph I., Thothmes I., Thothmes II., Amenoph II., Thothmes IV., Amenoph III., and Horemheb. These historical sovereigns are preceded by a Mentu Hotep VI., of the 11th dynasty, who has left no trace of his personality on the monuments, and of the legendary Menatwo personages only, and problematical at that, to represent APPENDIX. the long series of ages attributed to the history of Egypt beyond the time of the Hycsos!.... Is it not as though, in a gallery of portraits of the Bourbon race, no place had been found prior to the time of Henry IV., for any but the likenesses of Robert the Strong and Francis the son of Hector? This leads us naturally to some reflections on the tables or lists of the Egyptian Kings recently discovered and published.