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with horsemanship. It is Acliashtari, however, as Caator of the 

 Dioscuri, whose name is most prominent as an early rider, and it is 

 the same monarch who, as head of the Kshetriyas, formed tho 

 warrior and other castes of Egypt. His brother Chepher named 

 copper among metals and the cypress among trees. His elder 

 brother Achuzam and his son Jehaleleel, as we have seen, left their 

 names to certain species of the acacia. Achashtari also, in the 

 Sheth form of his name, gave the oriental equivalent Sliittak to the 

 same tree, but in the fuller form designated the metal tin, which is 

 the Greek Kassiteros, Sans. Kastira, Arab. Kasdir, all coming, no 

 doubt, from the Phoenician or rather Philistine name of this monarch. 

 The Sesortasens are preceded on the tablet of Abydos by Ammoneith, ■ 

 whose name is very like Manahath. It is possible, therefore, that 

 Manahath and Achashtari had relations with one another, the latter 

 being son-in-law of the former. I have as yet no evidence for this, 

 nor for another probable connection, that of Ammon as the son-in-law 

 of Achashtari or Sesostris. Neither have I so fai- been able to find 

 certainly the children of Achashtari, who gave name to the Sheth- 

 itea. Moab probably united with his family, and Bela or Belag, the 

 son of Beor or Phegor (whence Baal Peor), who ruled at Dinhaba 

 in the land of Moab over that covintiy and Edom, may be a descen- 

 dant of Sesostris, from whom, came the name Pilku, Phylace, Boulak, 

 or Belka.^^ Beor or Phegor may be the Bicheris of Manetho's fourth 

 dynasty, who follows the Suphids, but also the Biyris of Syncellus, 

 who precedes Saophis. If Beor be the son of Achashtari, he must 

 be earlier than Ziph, the grandson of Achuzam, but, as I'eigning in a 

 different part of the land of Egypt, might easily be mentioned after 

 him. Shuckford supposes that the invasion of Salatis drove Belus 

 out of Egypt, and this Belus is fabled to have ruled in Phoenicia and 

 Babylon. I cannot but think that the Bocchoris, whom Manetho, 

 Diodorus and others place at a much later period in Egyptian 

 history, may be the Beor or Begor whose son fled to Moab 

 and ruled at Dinhaba. He may also be found in the Labares, 

 answering to the Alapar and Bellepares of Babylon, who immediately 

 follows Sesostris in the twelfth dynasty of Manetho. The plain of 

 Bacarah opposite lake Moeris, on the east of the Nile, both by its 

 name and position favours this identification. The memory of Beor 

 or Phegor is also, I believe, preserved in the present Yacaria on the 



*3 Genesis xxxvi. 32. 



