200 THE SHEPHERD lilXGS OF EG'^Pt. 



authority of Mr. Poole. These Shairetaan, or people of Khaii*etana; 

 were essentially maritime, and the Bible coast of the Cherethim was 

 that extending eastAvard from Pelusium, known to the Egyptians as 

 Zerethra or Barathra. Branches of this family afterwards migrated to 

 Zereth Shahar, Zarthan, the neighbourhood of the brook Cherith, and 

 other places on the Jordan, so that the Egyptian records correctly 

 represent them as at times a sea, at times a river population. The 

 so-called Sardinians and Dardanians and Cretans of the monuments 

 are different readings of the liame by which the descendants of 

 Zereth were known. 



If any doubt existed as to the connection last stated, it is set at I'est 

 by that of Zoliar or Zochar, the brother of Zereth, who Stands next 

 in order. I do not know whether his name appears on the monuments 

 as a ruler in Egypt. From the fact of his son Ephron being ^t 

 Hebron in the time of Abraham, it is hardly likely that he himself 

 governed in the land of the Pharaohs. He may, however, be the 

 Toegar Amachus of Syncellus, while Moscheris and Mesochris, already 

 queried for a son of Jehaleleel, answer to his name, with the, as we 

 have seen not uncommon, prefix of M. More probable, however, 

 is it that he is the Seker-nefer-ke or Heoherochis . of the same third 

 dynasty to which Tosorthrus belongs. It is in the mention of his 

 descendants that we justify his own Ashchurite and Shepherd 

 relations. These are the well known Tocchari, whom I^ott and 

 Gliddon have termed "pure Celts." The Tocchari are nearly always 

 united with the Shairetaan or descendants of Zohar's brother Zereth, 

 as well as with the Taociai, or men of the line of Ashchur of Tekoa, 

 Their name has been correctly rendered Tencri, for from the two 

 sons of Helah came the lines imputed to Dardanus and Teucer. It 

 need not now surprise us to find that other nations, supposed to have 

 come from. Asia Minor and still more distant regions to make war 

 with the Pharaohs, dwelt within a short distance of the northern 

 bounds of their dominion. 



Ethnan and his descendants I have not yet satisfactorily identified, 

 The latter may be the Tohen or Tahennu whom the Egyptians hated 

 and with whom they maintained frequent wars, and the former may, 

 although I doubt it^ be the Tancheres of Manetho's fifth dynasty- 

 Many places bearing a name similar to that of Ethnan about the 

 Tanitic branch and mouth of the Nile, with Tineh as a name of 

 Pelusium, may commemorate this last son of Ashchur. -Other 



