98 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [VOL. V. 



Ismi-Dagon. Amenhotep II. 



GUNGUNU Shamas-Iva= Tuaa 



I 

 Thi = Amenhotep III. 



Nefei-it-thi=^ Amenhotep IV. UkHAMMU 



! I 



Ankh = TUTANKH. 



Other tablets from Tell-el-Amarna furnish the names of four Mitan- 

 nian kings or chiefs in three generations, the last of which was contem- 

 porary with the Amenhoteps III. and IV. These are Tushratta and his 

 brother Artassamara, their father Satarna, and their grandfather Arta- 

 tama. Of these, Satarna connects with ancient Irish history in the person 

 of Stairn, called the son of Nemedius or Midian. This he was not, but 

 he must have been very nearly related to Ephah or Gephah, Midian's 

 eldest son. A son of this Gephah heads a Pharaonic dynasty older than 

 that of Tutankh. He is Senta, who is found at the end of the second 

 dynasty, and his real successors are Menkau-Hor, Tatkara, and Assa of 

 the fifth, although Egyptologers erroneously place six hundred years 

 between them, and represent Tatkara and Assa as one person. That 

 other Pharaohs were of the same Celtic stock is very probable, but 

 evidence to prove it is yet lacking. Proceeding, for lack of a better, upon 

 the chronology of the Hebrew Scriptures, the date of Senta's monarchy 

 in Thinis or in Elephantine may be placed between i8oo and 1750 B.C., 

 instead of in 4000 B.C., as fixed by Lieblein. The period of Tutankh, the 

 last purely Celtic Pharaoh, was not far from 1580. The two centuries 

 that lie between the extreme dates represent the Golden Age of the Celt,, 

 the time when his mythology and legendary history were formed. P'ingal 

 and Ossian, Aneurin and Taliesin never saw the British Islands, but some- 

 where between the Tigris and the Nile performed the deeds and sang the 

 songs of the days of old, when Shamas-Iva or the P2gyptian luau was a 

 man whom their descendants converted into Hu, the sun-god. 



There were other Celts ruling in Chaldea besides the dynasties 

 headed by Ismi-dagon and Urhammu. I have already mentioned that 

 of Ulam-Buryas and his successors. Closely related to it, although 

 Celtic only on the mother's side, was that of the Kurigalzus and Bui na- 

 Buryases, who were Ossianic Trathalls and Brians, half Hittite and half 

 Cymric, although the Hercules like Kurigalzu left his name to Argyll. 

 Of the same stock was Khalugari of the tablet, for he was a late Colgar, 

 named after the brother of Cumhal and Brian, if indeed he were not the 



