252 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [Vot. VI. 
Amen, the tutelary deity of Xois, the husband of Maut and father of © 
Khonso, the eponym of the Amen-em-hats, and Jupiter Ammon, the 
father of Bacchus and grandfather of G&nopion, is Ammon the son of 
the Lot of Genesis. Many years ago Sir Gardner Wilkinson said, “ The 
names of the children of Ammon, as well as of Chemosh, their god, are 
too near to the Khem and Amun of Egypt to be accidental.” Whether 
Ammon or Ben-Ammi was in Egypt or not we have no present means 
of knowing, but that his son Coz, the Kushi of the inscription, founded 
in the Delta a kingdom called after himself, is indubitable. It lay con- 
siderably to the west of the original Horite kingdom of Zoan or Tanis, 
the tutelary deity of which was Horus,:so that there was no necessary 
collision between the two states, nor would invaders from the eastern 
desert need to pass through the occupied territory of the one to reach 
the other. There is every reason to believe that the Horite line, whose 
Pharaohs were called Sekenen-ras by the Egyptians, and Kukanos by 
the Hittites, was on the throne of Zoan in the time of Coz and his son 
Anub. It is also likely that Maut, the consort of Amen and mother of 
Khonso, belonged to that royal family, thus giving the line of Ammon 
claim to rule in Egypt. 
We are now in a position to place the time of the ancient League. 
The following table may be trusted in general terms: 
Jehaleleel Ammon _ born circ. 1897 B.C. 
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7" ul! 
Ziph Ziphah=Coz 
Veh aor 
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Anub Zobebah= Ati 
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Yaabetz born circ. 1723 B.C. 
From the birth of Ammon to that of Yaabetz is a period of 174 years, 
or an average of 58 years for each generation. Isaac was Ammon’s 
contemporary, but he was ninety-three years of age when he met Ach- 
udzath in Gerar, which would fall about the year 1804 B.C. This leaves 
about 81 years between the interview and the birth of Yaabetz. It fol- 
lows that Achudzath was a young man when he visited the Philistine 
king, and an old one when he fell by the hand of a Xoite warrior. He 
was, therefore, a contemporary of Coz rather than of Anub, so that his 
death may have taken place in 1756 B.C., when Anub was about 25 
years old. It remains to learn, if possible, why Achudzath was killed 
by a Cozite soldier when going to ally himself with Anub, the son of 
Coz. 
