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meed not be matter of astonishment, inasmuch as Chelsros, who is 

 Hepher, almost immediately precedes him. He is not, as is there 

 alleged, Danaus, who may, with more probability, be Othniel, grand- 

 son of Hepher, the Atin-re or Toonh of the monuments. His 

 connection with the family of Hepher in the eighteenth dynasty is 

 justified by the position of his son Acharchel in the list of the 

 Shepherds. In Manetho's fifteenth dynasty the latter is mentioned 

 after Pachnan, who is Kenaz, and Staan, who is Othniel, being the 

 immediate successor of the last of them and the predecessor of 

 Aphobis. The Acherres, who goes before Armais in the eighteenth 

 dynasty, is also, perhaps, Acharchel his son. I do not know who 

 the father of this Armais was, nor in what manner he came to 

 connect himself with the family of Coz. It would seem as if either 

 Harum or Aharhel had married a daughter of the father of Anub. 

 If Acherres, the predecessor of Armais, be not his son Acharchel, 

 he may be Eker, the son of Ram, who certainly did exercise 

 sovereignty in Egypt, being the Cecrops (Ekerophes) of Sais men- 

 tioned in many histories. The analogies of the names Ram and 

 Harum are in favour of this view. Eker, however, belongs to the 

 stock of Jerahmeel, and for the present must be set aside. I may 

 add, however, that Cheres of the second dynasty follows Sethenes or 

 Othniel, and thus helps the connection of the line of Harum with 

 that of Hepher, whether it be through the Jerahmeelite Eker or not. 

 Many places in the western part of the Delta, where we have found 

 .memorials of Anub, bear the names of Aharhel, Harum, and 

 Acheri-es, as well as other parts of Lower Egypt. 



The only remaining person, among those of whom T have deemed 

 it necessary to treat in this paper, is Mareshah, the son of Laadah 

 and father of Hebron. He is Moeris, the guardian of the youthful 

 Jabez or Apophis. He has been called a prince of Arvad or Rjiad. 

 Here the r is wrongly taken instead of I, for Ruad is really Laadah 

 the name of his father. I confess that I have not much more evideaice, 

 at least on Egyptian soil, for the connection of this Midianite with 

 ■the youthful Jabez and his mother Zobebah, the Cybebe of classical 

 story, Moeris or Mareshah being Marsyas. The names of Mareshah 

 and Zobebah are found together in southern Palestine, the latter in 

 its modern form of Kubeibah ; and the Arish which forms the 

 boundary of that land towards Egypt is bvit an earlier Marsyas 

 without the prefixed M. The name of his son Chebron ias been 

 'found on .the monuments of his period, himself being tlie Maii-e Papi 



