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take their name from Hepher or Chepher. In Agathodsemon, which. 

 S.S the Greek name of Tat or Thoth, we have but a lengthened form 

 <of Achntam or Achuzam.^" Manetho's first dynasty places Athothes 

 at Memphis in the region of Gizeh, Busiris and Sakkarah, and gives 

 Ouenephes, or the Anubis, who in Diodorus accompanies Macedon, 

 as the second from him. But there is no doubt that he is the same as 

 the Boethos or Bochus, who heads the second dynasty, an earthquake 

 in both reigns helping to mark the identity. In Bochus, as Eusebius 

 gives it, we find a form the same as that which appears in Phacussa. 

 Once more we discover him, though sadly out of place, in the third 

 dynasty, where, as Aches, he immediately precedes Sephouris or his 

 brother He})her. He may be the Sesonchosis who stands first in the 

 twelfth dynasty, Sesostris, or his brother Achashtari, being the 

 second from him. Josephus mentions an Asses as the last of the 

 Shepherd line. Tliat there was one of this name at the end of the 

 dynasty of the Mestraeans is not to be denied, but tlie most famous 

 monarch who bore it is to be found at the commencement. He is 

 also no doubt the Susunus of Bar Hebrjeus, who follows Aiskus or 

 Ashchur. To come to what rests on a moi'e solid foundation, the 

 name of Achuzam has been found on the monuments. At Gizeh 

 and Sakkarah he appropriately appears as Assa Tatkera or Aches or 

 Aseskef, the son and immediate successor of Usecheres, and in 

 company with Sephouris or Sephres and Sesostris. In the chamber 

 of Karnak and on the Tablet of Abydos the names of Ashchur as 

 Usecheres, his three sons, Achuzam as Aches, Hepher as Sephres, 

 and Achashtari as Sesostris or Nesteres, together with the Horite 

 Onam as Onnos, occurring in regular order with all the marks of 

 contemporaneousness, present such a proof of the correctness of my 

 inductive process from what were at first mere mythological data as 

 cannot be lightly called in question.^' 



I have no direct monumental evidence that Jehaleleel is the son of 

 Achuzam or Aches. Geographical facts show striking analogies 

 between southern Palestine and the land of the Pharaohs. Sile, 

 Sele or Selahieh, connecting with Tell Phakus, gives promise of 



32 Tliat Agathodsemon is no Greek word appears from its being mentioned in the Book of 

 Nabathean Agriculture as Aghathadimun. 



■3* Tiie Scriptural and Monumental lists thus coincide : 



Ashchur, Achuzam, Heplier, Temeui, Achashtari, 



Usecheres, Aches, Sephres, Nesteres, or 



8ahor, Thoth, Kfaeper, Timan-hor, Sesostris. 



