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Finally, Nos. 1 1 and 1 2 represent Mars held by " Manetho," 

 the historical solar deity (1. iv. & v. No. 14). The Tables inform 

 us that % on the said day stood in the nth sign of the Zodiac, the 

 house of I , the original H , 24°. This degree belonging to the 

 Decuria and Horion of Mars and to the Moera of the sun, this 

 planet was to be referred to a department of the Sun, because the 

 Egyptians omitted to specify the zodiacal segments belonging to 

 the same planet by which they were occupied. The correctness 

 of this interpretation is confirmed by our monument itself. Mars 

 standing in « and Venus in T, they occupied neighboring signs, 

 and therefore our inscription connects the four deities Nos 8, 9, 

 10 and II with each other by means of their arms. 



For the rest, the computation of this planetary configuration, 

 though superficial, agrees with the ancient observation, as follows : 



YEAR —1780, JAN. 5, 5h., PARIS TIME, WINTER SOLSTICE. 



Ancient Reports. Computation. 



© 9» 0° © 9' 0=- 



G 1 17 <- 1 1* 



$ 9+ 5 9 19 



$ 10 9 9 10 9 



d- 1123 ^ 11 25 



T| 3+ ^ 3 11 



yi 8+ h 8 4 



Such a planetary configuration not occurring twice during a 

 period of 2146 years, the year in which king Horus became king 

 of Egypt is iixed with mathematical certainty. And thus the 

 chimeras of the fanciful Lepsius and other ChampolHonists, who 

 referred Horus to ten other years, are blown up forever. This 

 important inscription confirms the result that Menes did not enter 

 Egypt before the year 2780 B.C., with which the the first Canicu- 

 lar period and the first Triacontaeteris and the first Apis period 

 began. 



Moreover, the birth-year of Horus is likewise fixed by the Egyp- 

 tian jubilee of 30 years, commencing, as we have seen, in 2780 

 B.C. ; for their renewals happened from 2780 to 1320 B.C. in such 

 years, which, being divided by 30, give the remainder 20 ; conse- 

 quently, e.g., in 1820 B.C. Now, since our Horus reigned accord- 

 ing to Africanus 38, according to the Armenian Eusebius only 28 

 years, whilst his father Amenophis ruled 31 years, Horus must 

 have been about 40 years old when his father died. Hence Horus, 



