ICO Meyer: 



arrangement of tlie eleveuth dynasty längs caii be supported from the 

 contemporary documeiits and the lists. The fact that the temple lists 

 have omitted Nb-t'wy-R' after S'nh-k'-R' and before the twelfth dyn- 

 asty, cannot be cited against our reconstruction ; for any reconstruction 

 niust reckon with such Omission of the name lost at this place in the 

 Turin Papyrus. Such temple lists commonly omit ephemeral reigns at 

 the close of a dynasty. 



We may therefore restore the seven kings of the Turin Papyrus as 

 follows : 



Nomarch 'Intef I x years 



Horus Wh-nb ^Intf II 50 + x „ 



Nb-htp Mentuhotep I x 



Vassal Tntf III x 



Nb-lirw-R' Mentuhotep II 46 + x „ 



S'nlj-k'-R' Mentuhotep' in 28 +x „ 



Nb-t'wy-R' Mentuhotep IV 2+x ,, 



An examination of the chronology of this reconstruction shows that 

 it will fulfil the demands in this respect also. From the Stela" of Tntf- 

 ykr at Leyden, we know that this man's groat grandfather had been 

 appointed to a scribal office in the Thinite nome by W'li-'nh. Estimating a 

 generation at tliirty to thirty five years, we may roughly date the appoint- 

 ment of Tntf-ykr's great grandfather at 120 to 140 years before the erection 

 of Tntf-ykr's tomb-stone at Abydos, which ocurred in the 33"^ year of 

 Sesostris I., that is 53 years after the accession of the twelfth dynasty. 

 His appointment feil therefore in the period from roughly 67 to 87 years 

 before the fall of the eleventh dynasty. If the appointment occtn-red near 

 the end of W'h-'nh's reign, the latter's accession may have occurred as 

 early as 137 years before the fall of the eleventh dynasty. This is again 

 corroborated by the surviving dates from the reigns of his successors, 

 which show that Ins death could not have occurred later than some 

 80 j^ears (minimum 76) before the accession of the twelfth dynasty. Now 



' Dafs Scanclikere' den Eigennamen Mentuhotep führte, hat Gardner, PSBA XXVI, 

 1904, 75, nachgewiesen. 



- Leemans, Descr. rais. des mon. Eg. ä Leide, pj). 264 — 266; Rouge, Rev. arch. i'''".scr. 

 VI, 560; PiEiiL, Inscr. 111, XXI— XXII. 



