228 THE SHEPHERD KINGS OP EGYPT. 



cence of Kenaz, son of Hepher. Heplier's name also survived in the 

 Cliaboras or Aborras, wliicli recall the Egyptian Chabrias and Avaris. 



Temeni I liave already connected witli the historical name 

 Temen-bar. In him also we must find the ancestor of the Thamanei, 

 who dwelt near the Carduchi in Assyria. 



Xisuthrus is Achashtari and Sheth and Sesostris, as I have already 

 indicated. The form of his name presents the original, with the 

 simple absence of the letter A, which seems prosthetic. The story 

 of the flood, the pillars or records at Sippara, the connection with 

 Shagaraktiyach, who is sometimes taken for him, and other facts 

 clearly establish his identity. He is the Sisit of Mr. George Smith's 

 cuneiform inscription describing the Deluge, and the Ashit whose 

 name at times is taken to be a mere variation of that of Asshur. As 

 Sethos he appears, or a reminiscence of him, in the old list of Assyro- 

 Babylonian kings. We have likewise found him, as Satrun, in 

 company with Dliizan. In the inscription on the black obelisk of 

 Nimroud already alluded to, he is called Set. As we have seen that 

 Sesortasen I. intimately connects with Onnos, the Egyptian king of 

 On or Heliopolis, so Xisuthrus appears as a successor of Cannes, 

 whom, in my paper on the Horites, I identified with Onnos and 

 Onam, the son of Shobal. This accounts for the frequent mention of 

 Anu or Oannes along with members of the Ashchurite family. It 

 need not be matter of surprise to discover the ShejDherd line in 

 Assyria, inasmuch as Nineveh and Heth are united on the monu- 

 ments of the 18th Egyptian dynasty, where the enemies of that line 

 are mentioned. With Achashtari I have already iinited Ashtoreth 

 and the Arabian Atlitoret. I cannot doubt that in the latter names 

 we have the Ishtar of the countries under consideration, and the wife 

 or daughter of Achashtari. She is moreover called Nana, and is 

 mentioned together with Anu or Oannes, so that it would appear as 

 if Achashtari really married a daughter of Onam or Onnos as well as 

 Hepher. This is strengthened by many facts in geography, mytho- 

 logy, &c. At Ashtaroth Karnaim, we learn from the Apocrypha, ' 

 the goddess worshipped was Derceto or Atargatis,^^ who, as the fish 

 goddess, connects with Anu, Oannes or Dagon the fish god, the An 

 or Onnos of Egypt, whose symbol was a fish. She belonged to 

 Ascalon, a Philistine city originally, and tliere it is said that she 

 became the mother of Semiramis by Caystrus. Caystrus is a very 



11 II. Macoab. xii. 26. 



