THE HORITES. 527 



A little later tlian Manaliatli we find Onam. Not contented to 

 share liis brother's empire or to occupy the position of a subject, he 

 turned southward, and, a little below the point of divergence of the 

 Nile's various branches, founded a town, which he named after him- 

 self. On, the strong city of the Sun, also called An-ra. There he kept 

 regal state for some years, until a new invasion drove him from the 

 throne ; and his descendants the Anu, after threatening Egypt for a 

 time from the coasts of Arabia Petraea, withdrew at last to Chaldea.^^ 

 On the lists he appears as Onnos ; but his name as found upon the 

 monuments is An, represented by the figure of a fish.^^ There can 

 be no doubt that he is the Babylonian Oannes or Dagon, so intimately 

 connected with Ilus, none other than his oldest brother Aivan.'^ 



I cannot tell precisely at what i38i-iod Jahath or Jachath, the son 

 of Alvan or Rsaiah, began his unhappy reign, whether during the 

 life of his uncle Manahath or after his death. He is Achthoes, the 

 cruel king of Heracleopolis, who was killed by his guards and 

 Hercules, according to the lists. There are or were at least three 

 towns in Egypt called Heracleopolis, tv/o of which were in the Delta, 

 one at its eastern and the other at its western extremity, while the 

 third was situated on the left side of the Nile below Lake Moeris. It 

 is probable that Achthoes inhabited and ruled over the town to the 

 east of the Delta, not far from the dominions of his father Alvan on 

 the one hand and those of his uncle Manahath on the other. He is 

 fally identified with the solar line of Seb,^* and his name is read Ati 

 on the monuments, where he is also represented as a monarch cut off 

 in the flower of his age. This may agree with the statement of 

 Sanchoniatho as to the unhappy fate of Jehid or Jeoud, the son of 

 Ilus. This Jachath or Achthoes was confederate with Nesteres, the 

 son of Usecheres, whom I will yet show to be Ha (the definite 

 article) Ahashtari the son of Ashchur (or as our English version of 

 the Bible erroneously reads Asshur), a great name in a distinguished 

 family, the Ashtar of the Shepherd Kings. ^ He, however, is no 

 Horite, and for the present must be dismissed. Nesteres or Ahash- 

 tari and Achthoes together made war upon Onam or Onnos, the 



21 Lenorraant and Chevalier, i. 205, ]i. 359. 



22 Osburn, i. 311. 



23 Bouomi, Nineveh and its Palaces, 330, quotes some valuable remarks of Miss Fanny 

 Corbeaux, connecting On and Dagan. 



-* Osburn, i. 373. 

 25 Id., ii. 522. 



