194 - The Rev. E. Hincks on the Years and Cycles 



between him and Rameses the Great, indicated by the monumental series, is not 

 inconsistent with the supposition that the former reigned in 1323, and the latter 

 in 1167. 



Thothmos, we know, assumed the title Mae-Re or Mae-Fhre, " lover of the sun ;" for it appears in 

 several of his shields ; and he was the third in genealogical ascent from the " Memnon" of the 

 vocal colossus, as Manetho makes Mephres to be. The father of Amenophis Memnon was, accord- 

 ing to Manetho, Thothmosis ; and the father of the Amenoph, of whom the colossus is a statue, 

 was a Thothmos. Lastly, the son of Amenophis Memnon is called Horus by Manetho ; and the son 

 of this Amenoph has for his hieroglyphical name Amun-men Har-em-heb, " Horus in a panegyry ;" 



a coincidence of the most striking description. It is satisfactory to find the latter part of this 



name written without abbreviation in the twelfth plate of Mr. Wilkinson's Ancient Egyptians, as the 

 name of the royal scribe who presides at the feast. The name is analogous to Muth-em-vaa, Har- 

 em-vaa, Phtha-em-vaa, &c., i. e. " Muth in a barge," &c., which are common Egyptian names. But, 



to return to our Thothmos The only objection, that I am aware of, to his being Mephres, is the 



length of his reign. Manetho makes Mephres to have only reigned twelve years and nine months ; 

 but the thirty-fourth year of Thothmos is mentioned on the monuments. I answer this objection 

 as follows :— Manetho, in giving this short reign to Thothmos, limits it to the time, during which he 

 reigned alone after the death or deposition of his sister ; but Thothmos dated the year of his reign 

 from the period when he ascended the throne in conjunction with her, though, probably from his 

 youth, with only nominal sovereignty. If his sister were the queen who erected the obelisks at 

 Karnak, as I presume she was, we know that she took the credit of them entirely to herself, and 

 the subsequent erasure of her name by Thothmos is a proof that there was little friendly feeling 

 between the joint sovereigns, and affords ground for suspecting that the partnership in the crown, 

 such as it was, was put an end to with violence. 



But that Thothmos was really king in conjunction with his sister, and of course that he would 

 count her reign as a part of his own, is proved by a statue in the British Museum, the inscription on 

 which commemorates the reigning sovereigns as 



that is, " the good goddess, the lady of the worlds, (defaced) may she live and be established like the 

 Sun for ever ! and her brother, the good god, lord of ' Achth,' (the Sun establishing the world, i. e. 

 Thothmos III.,) may he live like the Sun for ever !" In the case of a single sovereign, we find the 



