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have seen that the initial vowel is not at all constant, as in the form 

 Cencheres given by Theophilus, which is almost the same as Coneharis, 

 the last Lower Egyptian king in the list of Syncellus, in whose fifth 

 year the Cynic Cycle was completed."^ It is said that this Coneharis 

 must be the Timaeos of Manetho, under whom a great calamity, supposed 

 to be the Shepherd invasion, happened to Egypt."^ That it was not 

 the Shepherd invasion is abundantly manifest, since all the Rameses 

 precede him, and the king after whom the Shepherds came was not 

 Coneharis but Mencheres."^ Timaeus or Coneharis is thus the unfor- 

 tunate king, and last of his race of another and later period, his two 

 names connecting with Thothmosis (in the form Thummosis) and 

 Acencheres. The Pharaoh of the Exodus, or his near relations, occur 

 under a somewhat disguised form of the same name Acencheres in two 

 quotations from ancient writers."* The form is Chenephres or Knaphra 

 instead of Cencheres, plires, plira ov phre, the sun, taking the place of 

 the ordinary termination clieres, as in the case of Menophres substituted 

 for Mencheres. The first of these quotations is from Axtapanus. He 

 says that Palmanothes bore himself severely towards the Jews, and 

 compelled them to build Kessa and the temple in Heliopolis. He had 

 a daughter named Merris, who married a king named Chenephres, then 

 reigning in Memphis, for there were at that time several kings in 

 Egypt. She brought up a child of the Jews, and named it Moses, 

 whom the G-reeks called Musaeus. The second, from Bar-Hebraeus, 

 states that Trimuthisa, called Damris by the Hebrews, daughter of 

 Amenophathis and wife of Knaphra, was the person who saved Moses. 

 Now, Amenophathis, who has a long reign of forty-three years assigned 

 Mm, immediately precedes Pharoun Phsunu, the drowned in the Red 

 Sea, and is himself preceded by Tumuthus, a form of Thothmosis, and 

 Miphrus with the standard reign of twelve years, who in this place is 

 made immediately to follow the Shepherds. 



In addition to Acencheres Mesphres Thothmosis, the first who was 

 the enslaver of the Israelites, and his son and grandson, who perished 

 in the Red Sea, our attention has been drawn by the monuments and 

 the historical extracts to the princess who comes between them. One 



the Hebrews, called their land Chna or Cna, Stephanus of Byzantmm and Hecataeus hotl) know 

 ing it by the former name (vide. Baldwin's Prehistoric Nations, 137). 



111 Syncellus, in Cory's Ancient Fragments, 140. 



112 Kenrick's Ancient Egypt, ii, 159-160. 



113 Osburn's Mon. History of Egypt, i, 351. 

 Ill Cory's Ancient Fragments, 161, 165. 



