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byses in Egyptian records are dated from the death of Cyrus. 
That the year which preceded the first of Darius was called 
the ninth of Cambyses appears from a stéle commemorating 
an Apis, the successor of the one who was killed by Cambyses. 
He was born in the fifth year of Cambyses, lived eight years, 
and died in the fourth year of Darius: which must, there- 
fore, have been that which would have been the thirteenth of 
Cambyses. The difficulty arising from there being only eight 
years given to Cambyses in the Canon appears, at first sight, 
great; but the writer conceives that he has effectually removed 
it. It is proved from the Assyrian monuments, that what was 
called the first year of a king in Assyria and Babylonia was the 
year after that in which his predecessor died. On the other 
hand, Lepsius has shown that in Egypt, the year in which his 
~ predecessor died was counted as the first year of the new mo- 
narch. What was at its beginning the sixteenth of Nechao 
became before its close the first of Psammitichus II. If, there- 
fore, Cambyses succeeded Cyrus in the course of 530 B.c., 
the Egyptians would count the year 522, near the close of 
which he died, as his ninth year; while the Babylonians would 
reckon it as only his eighth. The accession of the Magian is 
shown to have taken place about two months before the end of 
the Egyptian year; and the next year would be the first of 
Darius, both in Egypt, because it was that in which he began 
to reign, and in Asia, because it was that which began next 
after the death of Cambyses. That Cambyses conquered 
Egypt in his third year, according to Egyptian computation 
—this being the year next following the forty-fourth of Ama- 
sis—has been proved by Lepsius; but this year is, by what 
has just been proved, 528 B. c., or A. NAB. 220. 
It follows from this that the first of Amasis was A. N. 176; 
of Apries, a.N. 157; of Psammitichus IIL., a.nw. 151; of Ne- 
chao II., a. N. 136; and of Psammitichus I., a. n. 82. Before 
him, Africanus and Eusebius agree as to the names of three 
kings, occupying twenty-one years: the names of whom, how- 
