348 
into a great mistake in supposing that the stone statue of 
Sethos (Smintheos) in the Temple of Vulcan, at Memphis, 
was to be counted with the 341 (or 345 ?) wooden images in 
the storehouse there, and that the count of the number of 
reigns of kings, of priests, and of generations of men in Egypt 
from Menes, was to be carried down only to the time of Sethos, 
the contemporary of Sennacherib, and not to Amasis of the 
twenty-sixth dynasty. 
A statement preserved by Herodotus, but overlooked by 
Bunsen and all other modern writers, as to the interval of 
time between the construction of the mound of Anysis, and its 
discovery by Amyrtzus, was adduced to prove that an inter- 
val of at least 300 years existed between the reign of the king 
called Anysis, and Sethos, or Sabacon; so that the events of 
the reign of Anysis are not to be considered as immediately 
preceding the reign of Sabacon, as is generally supposed by 
modern writers, who have overlooked the fact of an interval 
of 700 years between Anysis and Amyrteus. Thus, it was 
proved that Herodotus’s statements concerning Anysis do not 
immediately precede Sabacon, who is mistaken in his present 
text for another king of Cuthean, but not of African origin, 
whose name or title was Saba, identical with that of the enemy 
of ‘‘the son of Anosh,” of the Arabs, who may be identified 
with Anysis of Herodotus. 
It was shown that the two Ethiopian kings—who, with or 
after Sabacon, ruled in Egypt,—the shepherds or Hycsos, and 
the Shethites, or blue-eyed kings of the monuments, —belong 
to the group of seventeen kings, called altogether, with Saba- 
con, by the Egyptian priests, eighteen Ethiopians, in the text of 
Herodotus—to a great extent, fill up the gap of 300 years be- 
tween Anysis and Sabacon; whose reign, probably in his own 
country, may have subtended the reigns of his son and grandson, 
Sabacus and Tirhaka, in Egypt: and thus, the author main- 
tained, we might reconcile the statements in Herodotus with 
matters of fact which followed Sabacon’s actual rule in Egypt. 
