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these names connect in a female relation, whom we may confidently call 

 Amerses after Josephus, since he does not connect the Exodus with 

 this name. 



There are a few hints that I would throw out before leaving this part 

 of the subject, as to the forms under which, in addition to that of 

 Thummosis and Tumuthus, the name Thothmosis may appear. Timaeus 

 has already been connected with Concharis. Plato, in his Phaedrus, 

 joins Thamus, the old king of Egyptian Thebes, with Teuth or Thoth. ^^^ 

 Thum, the god whose name occurs in Pithom, should not be a stranger 

 to the Rameses line. Even Teutamas, the so-called Assyrian king, who 

 sent Memnon to Troy, in spite of the generally allowed discrepancy in 

 time, may have links to bind him to Thothmosis.^^^ 



In the reign of the Pharaoh of the Exodus there existed an intimate 

 connection between Egypt, Phoenicia and Greece. 



It is hardly necessary to do more than quote the words of Lenormant 

 and Chevalier in regard to the reign of Thothmosis III, who follows his 

 elder sister, the warlike queen, called by them Hatasu.-''-^^ The wall 

 catalogue of Karnak gives an account of Thothmosis' march from Gaza 

 in Philistia, which he made the base of his military operations, to 

 Megiddo under Mount Carmel, where he defeated the allied army of 

 Asia. Then he passed on triumphantly through Palestine, as far as 

 Lebanon, and eastward to the Euphrates. It also describes his expe- 

 dition, four years later, into Ccele-Syria, which he subdued, together 

 with the "Phoenician coast, to his sceptre. He created a fleet on the 

 Mediterranean, doubtless manned by Phoenicians, who, from the date 

 of their submission to Thothmosis, preserved for many centuries 

 towards his kingdom an unshaken fidelity, in complete contrast with 

 the conduct of other Canaanitish peoples. The fleets of the great 

 Pharaoh conquered Cyprus and Crete, and subjected the southern 

 islands of the Archipelago, a large part of the coasts of Greece and Asia 



120 Plato Phaidrus, iii, 274, &c. ; see also Galloway's Egyjit. Record, 106. 



121 Teutamas sent Memnon to Troy. Memnon, however, is made by Syncellus the same 

 as Amenophis, the soh of Thothmosis, who is followed by Horus and Aeencheres. That Teuta- 

 mas is called king of Assyria need not interfere with the connection any more than Memnon's 

 being called a Persian as well as an Ethiopian. The Rev. W. B. Galloway shows (Egypt. 

 Record, 147) that Assyria or Athyria was an old name for Egyist. I have already stated that the 

 new Egyptian line had oriental, Syrian and Assyi-ian, connections. This fact may be alluded, to 

 jU Isaiah Iii, 4 : " My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there ; and the Assyrian 

 oppressed them without cause." Pliny places the siege of Troy in the time of Rameses Miamuu 

 and testimony from other authors is not wanting in support of his statement. 



122 Lenormant and Chevalier's Manual, i, 231, &e. 



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