202 THE SHEPHERD KINGS OP EGYPT. 



are the only ofclier persons mentioned in the Book of Chronicles whom 

 it is necessary at present to connect with the Shepherd line of Egypt. 

 I have already stated that Coz is the son of Ammon, the son of 

 Lot. The identity of Amnn and Ammon has been suggested by 

 various writers, and Sir Gardner Wilkinson decides that these names 

 are too near in every respect for their similarity to be accidental. 

 The child of Amun in the Egyptian Pantheon is Chons; Amun, 

 Maut and he forming the great Theban triad. This Chons or Coz 

 is the Egyptian or Arabian Bacchus, not the Nimrod or Bar-Cush of 

 Bochart, but the same who named the month Pachons by prefixing 

 the article to his name, who is also a son of Ammon. OEnopion, 

 son of this Bacchus, prince of the Island of Cos, is Anubis of the line of 

 Amun and the Anub of Chronicles. The Plebrew meaning of the 

 latter word is " grapes," a most approj>riate name for the son of the 

 wine god. As a monarch, Anub appears in the first of Manetho's 

 dynasties tinder the form " Ouenephes." He is called the son of 

 Kenkenes, which is simply Ohona reduplicated, the true character of 

 the name appearing in the Cochome (from the word Kos, embalm) in 

 which Ouenephes built pyramids. The Usaphais, who follows him, 

 is no son of Anub but his sister Zobebah, whose name resembles 

 somewhat that of her mother Ziphah, the sister of Suphis. Coz seems 

 to have been the successor of Achuzam, who is Athothis and 

 Boethus or Bochus, for we have already found him in the Kenkenes 

 who came after the former, and now he appears still more plainly as 

 the Choos or Kaiechos who follows the latter in the second dynasty, 

 The successor of Choos is Binothris, " in whose reign it was decided 

 that women should have the prerogative of royalty." This Binothris 

 or Benteresh is a female name, and is given by Eusebius in a totally 

 different fonn as Biophis, which is identical with the Usaphais of 

 the first dynasty and the Zobebah of Chronicles. Anub appears 

 again in the Kneph Chufu of the fourth dynasty, after his uncle Chufu 

 or Ziph. The Methosuphis of the sixtli dynasty followed by Apappus 

 h, I think, a corruption of Zobebah, •fche word Phiops reproducing 

 the Biophis of the second dynasty. The Amenemes of the twelfth 

 dynasty may take their name from Ammon, although the form 

 Ammoneith led me to question a connection of the lines of Manahath 

 and Achashtari. Amenemes TV. will be Ammon-anubis or Anub 

 the grandson of Ammon, and the female who succeeds him under the 

 name of Scemiophris or Sebeknofre is really Zobebah, the only queen 

 who ruled in Egypt dnring the period of ancient monarchy. The 



