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speech. Such a prefix is the letter t which O'Reilly, in his Irish Dic- 

 tionary, says "is used as an adventitious prefix to all Irisli words begin- 

 ing with a vowel, which are of the masculine gender, and are preceded 

 b}^ the article an, which signifies the!' By this process, Urhammu or 

 Orchamus became Turhammu, Torchamus, Tarkhun. 



Tarkhun is not Tarkhundara, but it explains it, even as the dynastic 

 title of Dungi or Tutankh, for dara is a good Gaelic word meaning 

 " the second." Tarkhun-dara is thus an original Tarquinius Secundus. 

 That the legendary story of the two Tarquins was transmitted from the 

 banks of the Euphrates to those of the Tiber can hardly admit of doubt. 

 By a sudden revolution, the cause of which is hinted at in the epistle, 

 Dungi or Tarkhun-dara was driven from Ur, and took refuge not in the 

 Campanian city of Cumae but in Chemi, the land of Egypt. He' belongs ^ 

 obscurely to Greek legendary history as a Thersander who never saw 

 Greece, and whose genealogy is all astray, save when Thrasyanor is 

 made his grandfather, but who is rightly made the husband of a daughter 

 of Amphiaraus, for the original of this priestly monarch was Amenhotep 

 IV., called in cuneiforn script Naphurkuriya. Final der and tor in 

 ancient royal names supposed to be Greek must be regarded with sus- 

 picion: as a matter of fact, Thersander and Amyntor are Celtic d\mastic 

 titles. Once more Tarkhun-dara, Dungi or Tutankh, appears in Greek 

 mythology. As Tarkhundara married Akh, and Tutankh the Eg)"ptian 

 Ankh, so Tithonus was the husband of Eos, who bore to him the 

 Egyptian Aemathion and Memnon. She is called the daughter o'" 

 Hyperion and Theia, a statement mingling truth and error, for Hyperion, 

 the solar deity, is but a form of Naphurkuriya, the name of her sun-wor- 

 shipping father, and Theia is her grandmother Thi, the Celtic spouse of 

 Amenhotep HI. 



Many ancient writers, from Homer and Hesiod onwards, make mention 

 of her son Memnon, who has no place in the Egyptian dynasties. His 

 double connection with Egypt and Ethiopia, and with Susa, where his 

 father Tithonus is said to have reigned as the viceroy of the Assyrian 

 king Teutamas, shews that the birth of Tutankh in the Euphratean re- 

 gion was well known, and that he was connected with the Thothmes, not 

 of Assyria but of Egypt, who were closely related to the Amenhoteps, 

 although, by an error of judgment on the part of most Egyptologers, 

 Amenhotep HI. and IV. are set down later than all the four Thothmes. 

 Tithonus is generally called a son of Laomedon of Troy, but Apollo- 

 dorus makes him the son of Cephalus and the father of Phaethon. The 

 original Troy, whether Homer knew it or not, lay between Babylonia and 

 Egypt, and thither Memnon is said to have come from the banks of the 



