404 PRIMITIVE HISTORY OF THE lONIANS. 



that the wife of Achuzam was a daughter of Etam, whose name is 

 given in 1 Chron. iv. 3, as Zelelponi.''® I am not yet prepared to 

 state that he did not marry Zelelponi, but there seems little doubt 

 that one of his wives, at any rate, was a daiighter of Onam. The 

 first of the Osirtasens, who took the initial part of their name from 

 that of their father Ashchur, was Achuzam, and his obelisk stands at 

 Heliopolis, while he is designated the son of Onnos.** More correctly 

 he should have been called his son-in-law. In the Chamber of 

 Karnak, the name of Aches, whom I have shewn to be the same as 

 Achuzam and Osirtasen I., appropriately appears next to that of 

 Onnos. It may be well, however, to observe already that the name 

 Onnos seems to stand at times for two ditferent monarchs, one being 

 the Janias of the lists, and, in the Bible genealogy, Jonathan, the 

 grandson of Onam. 



What was the precise effect of the invasion of Usecheres on the 

 authority of Onnos, the scanty materials at my command will not 

 permit me to indicate ; but from the traditional and monumental 

 evidence I possess, I am enabled in a measure to follow the fortunes 

 of his descendants. It appears that the dynasty of Onnos was 

 removed to Aboo-Seir f° and there in all probability Semempses or 

 Semphucrates, his eldest son, exercised sovereignty. I have no 

 monumental evidence to show that Semempses was the son of Onnos. 

 The lists and traditions o'f Manetho, Eratosthenes, and others, are 

 what I am compelled in this case to depend upon. Aboo-Seir is the 

 ancient Busiris, and the city of the same name in the Delta is the 

 ancient Taphosiris. . They were named, not as I erroneously stated 

 in my last paper, by Ashchur, but by Abishur, the son of Shammai, 

 and grandson of Onam. Abishur and Aboo-Seir are the same word.. 



18 My reason for finding Zelelponi in the wife of Achuzam is stated in the Indian comiection 

 of that paper, and confirmatory reasons which, however, are not very strong, are given in that 

 of Greece. 



43 Gliddon, in his Ancient Egypt, writes: "On the other side of the statue (dedicated Ijy 

 Osirtasen T, to his father, ' the sun of guardiausliip ') a legend the same in substance is 

 repeated ; but in this legend the nomen oval is given ; and thus we know that the father of 

 Osirtasen I. was 'the sun of guardianship,' Aian or Oan. One might be tempted to consider 

 him a Johannes, a Hanna or a John, so nearly does the phonetic value ax^proaeh the eastern 

 sound of this familiar name." " The sun of guardianship " was a father-in-law and not a father, 

 save in guardianship, to Osirtasen I. or Achuzam, son of Ashchur. He was the earliest historical 

 John of whom we are ever likely to have a record. In isopularizing Egyptian history it' would 

 be wise to denote him by this English word, especially as his grandson was the first veritable 

 Jonathan. 



50 The pyramids of Aboo-Seir are attributed to the 5th dynasty of Manetho. 



