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in character not unlike that Avhich is imputed to Osiris. I am still 

 in the dark as regards his wife Abihail, an ancient Ophelia, the 

 special mention of whose name shews her to have been a person 

 of some importance in history. After the death of her husband 

 Abishur, by whom she had two sons, Ahban or Achban and Molid, 

 tradition seems to say that she became the wife of Ammon the son of 

 Lot, and, as Semele or Amalthgea, the mother or step-mother of Coz 

 his son, who has already been identified with the Bacchus of Classical 

 Mythology.'^'° Certain geographical analogies point to Phiala, the 

 fountain near Mempliis, of which Pliny speaks, as bearing the name 

 of this illustrious consort.*'^ Her son Ahban w-as famous in his day. 

 From him Daphne or Tahpaues derived its name, which was trans- 

 ferred with the Phiala, derived from that of his mother, into the 

 Geshurite region of Paneas in Northern Palestine, while his brother 

 Molid left the name of Moladah to a town in the Geshurite region 

 in the south of the same country. Of Aliban, however, we have 

 something more definite than geographical names. He is the Uben-re 

 or Aubn-ra, whose hieroglyphics have been found on the ivories at 

 Ninevehj and Sir Gardner Wilkinson, has indicated his connection 

 with queen Amun-nou-het, who exercised the regency during the 

 reigns of the second and third Thothmes, and who bears the title 

 "Uben-t in the foreign land.'"*^ A son of Ahban would seem to be 

 Harum the father of Acharchel, and it is not improbable that his 

 daughter was the wife of Bechen-aten or Othniel. Certain it is that 

 Bechen-aten, whom I have identified with Othniel son of Kenaz, 

 married a princess of the line of Onam, Ainnin or Ainia and Tula 

 being her parents ; but I am in doubt whether Ahban or Jonathan 

 is represented by Ainia. «^ Amun-nou-het, Avho is Athotis or Atossa, 

 is the daughter of this Onite queen by Othniel, her Bible name being 

 Hathath,''-' Harum, who is Armais, the father of Archies and, at 

 the same time, as Plar-em-heb, the late Egyptian Horus, occupies an 

 important position in connection with the restoration of Egyptian 

 supremacy to the old Solar or Horite line.^^ I have not been able 



6" In my paper on the Shepherd Kings. 



"51 Pliny, viii. 46. 



152 Rawlinson's Herodotus, App. Book ii. chapter 8. 



"^i ] Chron. iv. 13. See Shepherd Kings. 



65 From him descended the Ramessids. Plutarch Is. et Os. 56, says that Orus was called 

 Koemin (Achban) and in the list of Tatian, Damphenophis (Daphne) precedes Orus. 



