196 THE SHEPHERD KINGS OF EGYPT. 



man. Sephres had no Mencheres among Ms sons, nor had Aches. ^^ 

 Temeni may be Tancheres of the fifth dynasty or the Stamenemes 

 of Syncellus. I know nothing certainly about him ; but from the 

 fact of his being a god and giving name to a town, it is probable 

 that he exercised sovereignty, and may yet be found occupying no 

 mean position among the Pharoahs. It does not, however, follow 

 because the name of an Ashchurite appears on the monuments and 

 in the lists of Manetho and others, or as the designation of a town, 

 that he therefore exercised sovereignty in Egypt or even lived there. 

 Sons and brothers would naturally preserve the memory of their 

 nearest relatives and hand them down to posterity along with their 

 own, although these might dwell in distant regions. Temeni may 

 never have been out of Palestine, or may have returned there, not 

 temporarily, as Jehaleleel, but for permanent residence. Elon, the 

 father of Esau's wives BAshemath and Adah, Husham who ruled in 

 Edom, and Eliphaz the friend of Job, were doubtless of his family, 

 and the first of these was probably a gi-andson ; so that some of his 

 descendants early made Palestine their home. 



The fourth of Ashchur's sons by Naai-ah is Achashtari. He was 

 the greatest of the Shepherd line. His name occurs with and 

 without the final ri. As the god of the Hyksos he is Sheth or 

 Ashtar, the latter name giving us the Ahashtari of Chronicles. 

 Astarte is the goddess joined with him, the eponyni of Ashtaroth 

 Kai'naim. He named Sethrum and the Sethroitic nome, with other 

 places in Egypt, all in the vicinity of Ashchurite designations. He 

 is the Satis of Bar Hebrseus, the Sethos and Saites of other 

 chroniclers. As Sheth, he divided the opprobrium of the new race 

 with Smu or Achuzam, Babys or Apophis, and Typhon or Ziph. The 

 legend of the patriarch Seth being buried in an Egyptian pyramid 

 belongs to him. Josephus made a similar mistake, and ascribed to 

 the son of Adam the erection of inscribed pillars in the land of 

 Siriad, which Whiston referred properly to Sesostris.''^ With all the 

 legends relating to Seth, the story of a flood is bound up ; and Mr. 

 Galloway, arguing for an Assyrian connection, has proved conclusively 

 that Sesostris, Xisuthrus and this Seth are one, the flood being an 

 element in the history of each. All of these names ai-e at once derivable 



67 Meonothai of the family of Hepher may easily be a Menclieres, however, although he 

 would come much'later. 



6" The Siriadic land is that of the Siris, Shihor or Nile, named after Asliohur, the father 6t 

 Sesostris. 



