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I1V.—On the Defacement of Divine and Royal Names on Egyptian Monuments. 
By the Rev. Epwarp Hincks, D. D. 
Read February 26, 1844. 
THEREis no subject connected with the Egyptian monuments on which greater 
diversity of opimion has existed, than the studious defacement of certain names, 
and portions of names, which many of them appear to have undergone. The first 
idea of Champollion was, that all these defacements occurred at one time, namely, 
that of the invasion of the Hyk Shos ; but this was soon found to be erroneous, as 
the great majority of the names defaced were those of persons who lived subse- 
quently to this invasion. Other opinions have been since advanced; but, as it 
appears to me, they are not such as a fair examination of the facts observed would 
lead to. I have, therefore, drawn up a memoir respecting these defacements, in 
which I refer the principal ones to four occasions, which I specify ; and in which 
I mention the instances of defacement which have been observed, that belong to 
each of these occasions. 
The first occasion of defacing a royal name was the dethronement or death 
of Queen Amuneth (fig. 1), the successor of Thothmos II. (fig. 2). This 
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queen governed Egypt for about twenty-nine years, during which her brother, 
Thothmos ITI. (fig. 3), appears to have had no share in the sovereignty. He pos- 
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