IDENTIFIED IN THE MYTH OF ADONIS. 43 



the discrepancy will remain while Thothmosis and Rameses are kept 

 apart. Mr. Osburn, in his Monumental Egypt, seeing this difficulty, 

 draws them much closer together, finding that Thothmosis was a perse- 

 cutor of Israel equally with Rameses." The first of the two Pharaohs 

 of the book of Exodus must be he of whose reign bricks containing 

 straw are first found, and on whose monuments captives with Israelitish 

 features are represented engaged in brick-making and building. 

 Kenrick,^^ following Rosellini, calls this monarch Thothmosis III; 

 while M. Chabas and Dr. Brugsch, on the authority of two papyri 

 mentioning the Aperiu or Hebrews as this subject people, and of the 

 rock inscription at Hamaraat, decide for Rameses II.'''' Admitting the 

 impossibility of Rameses II. coming after the Exodus, if the Scripture 

 narrative be true, I decide for both of these, and, with Mr. Salt, call 

 the Pharaoh Rameses-Thothmosis, who is Sesostris the later, or Sesoois,^" 

 the conqueror of the Shepherd line, and the father of an eiFeminate 

 and unfortunate son Sesoois II, Pheron, or Nuncoreus, reported by 

 Herodotus and Diodorus to have impiously shot his arrows against the 

 Nile, and to have become blind in consequence.^^ 



Ancient and modern writers upon Egyptian affairs, who have not, 

 like Mr. Salt, cut the gordian knot of the 18th and following dynasties, 

 are divided between the Thothmoses and the Rameses as furnishing 

 from their number the Pharaoh of the Exodus. We may as well dis- 

 card the numerical designations of the kings of these names, as they 

 may tend to confuse, and as there is not a complete agreement among 

 Egyptologists in the use of them. The cool way in which a few 

 Rameses are thrown in to make up a dynasty is exemplified in Prof- 

 Rawlinson's Manual of Ancient History. After mentioning Rameses 

 VIII, he says, " Six or seven other kings of the same name followed."®^ 

 We shall deal, therefore, only with Thothmoses and Rameses. As my 

 argument hangs principally upon the first of these names, we may 

 consider first the testimonies in favour of the latter. 



Manetho, in one place,®* and Chaeremon,^* call the Pharaoh in whose 



'''' Osburn's Monumental History of Egj'pt, vol. ii, 249, 296. 



78 Kenrick, ii, p. 194 ; see also A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians, by Sir J. G. 

 Wilkinson, abridged edition, vol. ii, p. 194. 

 fs Chabas, Melanges Egyptologiques. Brugsch, Aus dem Orient. 



80 It is found that Sesou forms part of the name of Kameses II, although Thothmosis III.- 

 and Sesostris are often identified. See De Lanoye's Barneses the Great, Appendix v. 



81 Herod. L. ii c. 3 ; Died. Sic. L. 1, s. 2, c. 11. 



82 A Manual of Ancient History, by George Rawlinson, M.A,, 1869, p. 69. 



83 Joseplms, Cent. Ap. i, 26, 27. 84 i(j. j^ 32. 



