THE SHEPHEED KINGS OP EGYPT. 203 



Telation of Suphis and tlie son of Coz is justified by the statement 

 that Anubis was lord of Sepa or Siouph, the region named after the 

 •former monarch, into whose family Anub seems to have been adopted. 

 The name Anon or Bnon, which follows that of Salatis in the list of 

 ■Shepherd Kings, has been read Anoob in the papyrus of Turin, Suphis, 

 who forms the connecting link, being omitted and Anub being made the 

 immediate successor of his maternal grandfather. It is important to 

 find Anub thus identified with the Shepherds. The region inhabited 

 by him was probably that situated in the west of the Delta, where 

 the town of Canopus and the Canopic mouth of the Nile preserved 

 his name. The intimate connection of Coz and Anub as Chons 

 -and Kneph with Ammon establish their descent from him as son 

 and grandson ; the many agreements between the names Suphis 

 and Kneph and their equivalents leave \is in no doubt as to 

 the fact that Coz married a sister of the former, who became 

 the mother of Anub ; but I have not yet found the relations 

 mutually sustained by Achuzam and Coz. Their names are not 

 unlike, and, as we shall yet see, they were often confounded. ^^ If 

 they were indeed related before the time of the marriage of Coz to 

 Ziphah or Nephthys, it may have been by the union of Ammon to a 

 daughter of Achuzam and sister of Jehaleleel, 

 Achuzam 



Jehaleleel daughter = Ammon 



Ziph Ziphah == Coz 



Anub Zobebah. 



Zobebah was, I think, the mother of Jabez, who is mentioned in- the 

 verse of 1 Chron. iv. immediately following that in which her name 

 occurs. A play upon words appears in these verses, thi-ee forms 

 presented in the Hebrew looking like anagrams — Zobebah, Jabez, 

 Beozeb. The language of the text puts it beyond all doubt that 

 Jabez was no Hebrew. He was a convert to the religion of Israel, 

 and apparently a distinguished ruler whose life was marked by 

 •uncommon prosperity. '^ He is the Apis, Phiops, Apophis, under 

 whom Joseph governed, who feared God, and reigned nearly one 

 hundred years. He was the greatest of all the Shepherds. Monu- 

 mental and traditional evidence' tell the same story concerning this 

 monarch, who came so early to the throne. Who his father was I 



«5 An example of this confu.sion is found in Ovid's Metamorplioses IV. 15, &c., where BacchsTi 

 Is called Eleleus and Lyseus, which are forms of Jehaleleel, the .son of Achuzam. 



