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He is the Slioure or Soris of Dr. Bircli, and the Amcliura of 

 Lepsius, whose shield has been found at AbooSeir.^^ Am-chura and 

 Abi-shur are too near one another in form, especially when taken in 

 connection with the name of the place in which the former name is 

 found, and the fact of the Heiiopolitan line exercising royalty there, 

 to allow much doubt as to their identity. The prefix Abi is not an 

 essential part of the name Abishur, as we can see by reference to 

 such designations as Abietam, Abiezer, &c. Shur, which became the 

 name of the region north of Etam, between Egypt and Palestine,^^ 

 and which afterwards followed the retiring tide of population up 

 into Syria in the same form, or as Ge-shur,^^ first appears on the 

 page of history in this sou of Shammai, and gi-andson of Onam, and 

 is his true title — hence the rendering Shoure or Soris. The word 

 S/m7' in Hebrew strictly represents " a wall ;" but the allied term 

 Shor, with which Chaldee, Syrian and Arabic roots agree, is the 

 Latin taurus. This will appear plainly in the Babylonian connec- 

 tions of the family of Onam. In the list of Eratosthenes, Chuter 

 Taurus, with a reign of seven years, following Semphucrates \ni\\ 

 one of eighteen, after Thp'illus, although much out of place, is plainly 

 Abishur after Shammai, the successor of Jezreel, the son of Etam. 

 He is also, no doubt, Tyreis of Manetho's third dynasty, who also 

 has a reign of seven years, and who I had supposed might be Tiria, 

 the brother of Ziph or Suphis. He may also, with as much pro- 

 bability, be Sisires of the fifth dynasty of Manetho, which is ended 

 by the name of an Onnos, and who has a reign of the same duration. 

 Turning now to his ^Dredecessor, Semphucrates, in the list of Era- 

 tosthenes, and looking for him in those of Manetho, we find no difli- 

 culty in recognizing his identity with Semempses, of the first dynasty, 

 who, like Semphucrates, reigned eighteen years. Semphucrates fol- 

 lows Thyrillus, and he, as I have already stated, is Jezreel, the son 

 of Etam, whom we have found to be intimately connected, geogra- 

 phically and mythologically, with the family of Onam. Jezi-eel, the 

 god of seed, with the customary omission of the final el, is the Egyp- 

 tian Osiris f^ but in the full form of his name, giving force to the 

 ayin which appears in the last syllable, he becomes Jezregel. B-e- 



61 Vide .authorities in Kenrick's Ancient Egypt, New Torlv, ii. 117. 



62 Gen. xvi. 7, xx. 1, xxv. IS; Exod. xv. 22 ; 1 Sam. xv. 7, xxvii. S. 



63 Dent. iii. 14; Josh. xii. 5, xiii. 2, 13 ; 1 Sam. xxvii. S; 1 Cliron. ii. 23. 



6* I .have no further authority than similarity of name for the identification of Thyrillus with 

 Jezreel. 



