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who stands midway between them, the note, " Under him Moses led 

 the Jews in their exodus from Egypt." ^^ The name Acencheres, 

 either in full or in a mutilated form as Acherres, occurs twice or three 

 times in all the lists of the 18th dynasty; and in one list, that of Afri- 

 canus, as given by Du Pin in his Bibliotheque Universelle des Historiens, 

 it occurs in its complete form, and, in each case, with a reign of twelve 

 years appended. ^^ The first Acencheres follows a Horus, although, on 

 the tablet of Abydos, Eameses is the name that occupies a similar posi- 

 tion, and Thothmosis III, in an inscription^ arrogates to himself the 

 name of Horus. ^' I may also here remark that, in the Canon of the 

 18th dynasty of Manetho, as given by Theophilus, Chencheres, who is 

 this Acencheres, immediately precedes Sethos Miammu, which is a 

 name of the great Rameses, and of him only.®^ The name Acencheres 

 has been much overlooked by writers on Egyptian history. Mr. Osburn 

 finds a connection for it between Me&phres Thothmosis and his son, 

 who is at the same time his grandson, also called Thothmosis.^^ It is 

 true, he does not identify Acencheres with either of these, but repre- 

 sents him as a son of the first and an uncle of the second. He shows, 

 however, that in him the names Acencheres and Thothmosis meet, and 

 thus reconciles the statement of Eusebius with other early records, in 

 which a Thothmosis is made the unhappy Pharaoh. Both Thothmosis 

 and Acencheres, from their frequent repetition, appear to be dynastic 

 names, indicating of themselves no particular individual. On the tablet 

 of Abydos we find Mesphres, Acencheres and Thothmosis represented 

 by three Thothmoses ; and the lists of Syncellus and Eusebius name 

 the same trio Misaphris, Misphragmuthosis and Touthmosis. Of the 

 latter Kenrick says : " Misaphris or Miphres and Misphragmuthosis 

 have the appearance of both originating from a title and a phonetic 

 name, Miphra Touthmosis or Tothmes beloved of Phre. These will be 

 the Tothmes I. and II. of the tablet ; and the Touthmosis of the lists 

 will correspond with the Tothmes II. of the Tablet." ^'"' Misphrag- 

 muthosis is said by Manetho to have been the new Pharaoh who first 

 subdued the Shepherds, and his son Thummosis or Thothmosis, the 

 king in whose reign the exodus of Israel took place. ^°^ In Thothmosis 

 and his predecessor Mesphres Thothmosis, whose reign, according to 



^5 Euseb. Armen. Canon, vol. ii, p. 105. ^ Osbum's Men. His. of Egypt, ii, 183, &c. 



*5 Du Pin Bib. Un. des Historiens, p. 273. !<» Kenriclj^'s Ancient Egypt, ii, 170. 



97 Osburn's Mon. His. of Egj^t, ii, 300. loi Josephns Cont. Ap. i, 14. 

 93 Cory's Ancient Fragments, 158. 



