150 Meyer: 



Dafs trotzdem die SEYiTAKxii'sche Verbindung von fr. 6i und 64 all- 

 gemein für riclitig gehalten wird, beruht auf der Überzeugung, dafs 

 S'^anchkere'' der letzte König der 11. Dynastie gewesen sein müsse. Aber 

 Breasted hat mir gezeigt, dafs diese Annahme nicht unumgänglich ist, 

 sondern dafs es sehr wohl möglich, ja geboten erscheint, auf ihn noch 

 einen weiteren König, Nebtauire'^ Mentuhotep IV., folgen zu lassen. Er 

 hat auf meine Bitte das Ergebnifs seiner Untersuchungen in dem folgenden 

 Aufsatz zusammengefafst, für den ich ihm zum gröfsten Danke ver- 

 pflichtet bin. 



The eleventh Dynasty, by James Henry Breasted. 



Since Steindorff' showed that the Intf's do not all belong in the 

 eleventh dyna.sty, the greatest uncertainty has prevailed as to the length 

 of this dynasty, and the Order of the kings belonging to it. A closer 

 exaniination however, will, I believe , perniit of a fairly safe arrangement 

 of these kings, and determine also how long the family reigned. 



It is evident from the monuments which they have left, that they 

 conquered the North , and overthrew the Heracleopolitans. Now this con- 

 quest can be made the basis of a rearrangement of the family whicl» ac- 

 complished it. It is possible from the contemporary monuments to deter- 

 mine whether the reign of a given king falls before or after the conquest 

 of the Nortli. Let us apply this test to the four Mentuhoteps known to 

 US.- These are: Nb-htp, Nb-hrw-R', S'nh-k'-R' and Nb-t'wy-R'. 

 The Turin Papyrus places Nb-hrw-R' and S'nh-k'-R' together toward the 

 end of the dynasty, in the order, in which I have named them. In the 

 Sakkara and Abydos lists, they are the only kings of the eleventh dynasty, 

 who are mentioned at all; while the prestige of Nb-hrw-R' was such 

 that in the tradition of the New Kingdom, lie was regarded as the founder 

 and establisher of Tlieban power (LD III, 2 a. d). He is named at the 

 Ramesseum, side by side with Menes and Ahmose I, and reeeives the 

 same honors as they. It is evident that he must liave ruled the whole 

 country; in bis time the conquest of the North was a thing of the past. 



' Die Könige Mentuhotep und Antef, ÄZ. 33, 770". 



^ I iieed hardly say to any one who has examined it, that the Karnak list cannot 

 be enij)loyed in such a reconstruction , as its arrangement is not chronological. 



