THE HORITES. 529 



According to tlie above table, Aliumai and the patriarch Joseph 

 are contemporaries, so that Joseph appears properly in Egypt during 

 the period of the so-called Shepherd Kings. This agrees with the 

 almost universal tradition that he lived and ruled \inder Apophis, 

 the greatest of that line." As Apophis, however, was not the first 

 of his dynasty in order of reigning, I am disposed to throw Sliobal 

 a little farther, say half a generation, back into the past. With the 

 line that displaced the Horites we have, at present, nothing to do. 

 At their head stands the family of Ashchur, or as he is generally 

 called Usecheres, and, as the central figure in their family, Achash- 

 tari, who is at once Ashtar and Sesostris. It was he who overthrew 

 the Horite power in Lower Egypt, and who, once an ally of 

 Achthoes, became the Sheth that stands ever after as the enemy of 

 Horus and all his race. These identifications are given in few 

 words, but are the results of many labours and much patient investi- 

 gation. They are clearly established in my own mind, and abundance 

 of proof for them will emerge both in this paper and in future 

 accounts of other great families of antiquity. I am convinced that 

 no intelligent Egyptologist will lightly pass by what he must regard, 

 at the least, as a series of extraordinary coincidences, unparalleled in 

 the connections of Sacred and Profane History. 



Y. — Fkom this family of Shobal, in the line of Ra or 

 Alvan, came the Caphtorim who invaded Palestine before 



THE close of the WANDERINGS OF IsRAEL. 



Before proceeding with the proof of this statement in itself, I may 

 be allowed to dwell for a shol^t time upon the fact that the southern 

 dynasty founded by Ahutnai or Achumai, as Ahmes or Karnes, is 

 the dynasty of Syncellus, called that of the Aegypti. Syncellus and 

 Other sources of Egyptian history give us three dynasties of rulers in 

 the land of the Pharaohs, the Auritae, whose history we have con- 

 sidered, the Mestraei, and the Aegypti.^® The Mestraei are the 

 Shethites of Ahashtari, who is called Nesteres by decipherers of the 

 monumental records. The Aegypti are the revived Horite line under 

 Ahumai, who is himself Aegyptus. I proceed to the proof, and in 

 giving it will anticijoate somewhat by introducing etymological and 

 historical illustrations from other languages and mythical histories, 



27 Lepsius' Letters, 4S0, 487. 



28 Vide Cory's Ancient Fragments. 



