THE SHEPHERD KINGS OF EGYPT. 1'95 



Daniel, and similar words derived from Othniel, who fittingly follows 

 Akencheres. Again he appears among the Shepherds in a truncated 

 form of the Greek Sthenelus (Sthenis), as Staan after Pachnan. He 

 is likewise the Phasthon Avhose claims Avere disputed by Epaphus 

 (Apophis), the friend of Cycmvs (Kenaz), and, as I have already 

 indicated, the Adonis of Phoenicia and Cyprus, where the Cinyrads 

 kept up his father's memory. Hathath, who is of Othniel, may be 

 a daughter, which the feminine termination would justify, and the 

 Athotis, Teti or Tati of this line who married Skhai, whoever ho 

 may be, and became the ancestress of the Ramessid dynasty. 

 Meonothai, who follows and may be her son, is, I tliink, Mene- 

 phthah ; and Ophrah probably gives Miphres or Misaphris, from 

 whom came the great enemy of the Hyksos. Seraiah, the second 

 son of Kenaz, may be an Egyptian Soris, Sisires, Sirois, or Sirius. 

 As the dog-star he unites his father's name (Canis) with his own. 

 The student of the lists and monuments has now his materials before 

 him in almost, if not pei-fecfcly, infallible order, and may supplement 

 these initial labours without much trouble. I may mention before 

 passing from the family of Hepher that his Avife Taia was probably 

 a daughter of Onam, her father being given as Ainnin, and he 

 himself connecting intimately with On, the city of this Horite king. 

 From their mother also Bakkan or Kenaz and Atin or Othniel may 

 have adopted the Horite ra into the nomenclature of the family. 

 The connection with Onam may also explain the union of his 

 mother's name Atarah with the Joab who appears as a son of 

 Seraiah. and great-grandson of Hepher, in Ataroth Beth Joab. The 

 name of Kenaz remains in Conosso, the Wady Beni Keiisi, Pach- 

 namuis, and other places, in the neighbourhood of which the memory 

 of his descendants is similarly embalmed. 



I have not mu.ch to say about the third son of Ashchur, Temeni. 

 We have already found him associated with Sheth and Sahor as a 

 god of Hermopolis, and the geographical name Damanhour in the 

 Delta, not far from Naucratis, which commemorated his mother, 

 preserves his memory. He may be found with the article as some 

 early Phthamen, and is, perhaps, the so-called Mencheres, Timan-hor 

 without the initial and important T, who immediately follows Seph- 

 res, and Avhose standard is of the same character as those of Usecheres, 

 Aches, Sephres and Sesostris. The true Mencheres ' or Monthra 

 is the son of Shobal, and this Mencheres cannot be the same 



