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Theophilus, and the Horite Manahath, wlio ruled either at Zoan 

 or Mendes over the Mendesian nome. ^^ To the Rev. "VV. B. Galloway 

 is due the credit of finding the name Asshur in that of Busiria.^* 

 Busiris is found in many classical authors. Diodorus gives eight of 

 that name, the last of whom he makes the founder of Thebes." He 

 is also the Vexoris of Justin/^ and the Aiskus of Bar Hebr^us, who 

 is plainly the head of the shepherds, since he is followed by Susunus, 

 Tricus, Satis and ApaphuS:'** Manetho must of necessity mention 

 this early monarch of the land whose dynasties he has recorded at 

 such length. We find his name accordingly, although I believe that 

 here it denotes his son Ahashtari or Sesostris, in the Sesochris who 

 appears eighth in the second dynasty. A similar form, designating 

 probably his great grandson Asareel, is Mesochris of the third. It is, 

 however, in the Usercheres of the fifth dynasty that we discover the 

 name of the ancient Hercules, and him Lepsius has found at Gizeh,'" 

 He is the first, the ancestor, of the so-called Sesortasens, the latter 

 part of the word being perhaps a form of Tekoa, like the tiyach 

 of Shagarak, king of Assyria, and the tasi of the Arabs. Thus 

 Usecheres (for this is the true form of the name) is no mythical 

 character, but probably a sovereign, at all events the ancestor or 

 father of several sovereigns in Lower Egypt. Osburn errs in 

 supposing that he is Sesostris, but the error is not great, inasmuch 

 as he is the father of Sesostris, who, if Osirtasen III., has left traces 

 at Dashour, a most fitting place, since it commemorates his father's 

 name. Not only is he associated with Sesostris or Achashtari, and, 

 as we have seen, with Temeni or Timan-hor, but as Usercheres of 

 the fifth Manethonian dynasty, he precedes Sephres or Hepher, and 

 at Gizeh appears with Aseskef or Achuzam. Gizeh, which is a 

 corruption or abbreviation of the name of his eldest son by Kaarah, 

 and Saccarah, a form of his own, are the regions in which mention 

 is specially made of him. He is spoken of as a highly distinguished 

 monarch and the erecter of a pyramid. It is also worthy of note, as 



16 Ad Autolycuin, ii. 31. It is interestiog to find Antseus and Mendes connected by 

 Jablonsky (Guigniaut i. 423). Neohaoth or Autifius of Mendes, who, as the first ruler of Egypt 

 is the same as Menes, is undoubtedly Manahath the Horite, and must have been a contemporary 

 of Ashcliur. 



16 Egypt's Record of Time to the Exodus of Israel. 



IT Diod. Sic. i. 



18 Justin i. i. 6 ; ii. iii. 8, 



w Bar HebrKus in Cory's Ancient Fragments. 



«o Bunsen ii. 180. 



