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given for the commencements of the XlXth, XXth, XXIst, 'XXIInd, 

 Dynasties (the corresponding dates given by Brugsch being here 

 added). 



Century. 



Mariette. 



Lepsius. 



Brugsch. 



XlXth, 



1462 B.C. 



1443 B.C. 



1400 B.C. 



XXth, 



1288 ,, 



1269 ,, 



1200 „ 



XXIst, 



1110 „ 



1091 „ 



1100 „ 



XXIInd, 



980 ,, 



961 ,, 



966 „ 



At page 739 it is stated — " Before the death of Setee I. {circ. 1366, 

 B.C.), the maritime nations of the Mediterranean made a descent on 

 Egypt. The Shardanes or Sardones, and the Tuerscha or Tyrseni 

 being allied with the Lybians in this enterprise." 



Circ. 1333 B.C. — Ramses II. defeated them so eifectnally that they 

 do not seem to have again attacked Egypt till the reign of his son 

 Meneptah, about 70 years or more subsequently. 



Circ. 1300 B.C. — Meneptah succeeded Eamses II. ; there are but 

 few monuments of his reign. The principal event that they date is a 

 great incui'sion into the Delta of the maritime nations of the 

 Mediterranean, allied with the Lybians. By this time the Pelasgic 

 tribes had wrested the dominion of the sea from the Phoenicians. 

 " Some cause, perhaps famines, had already disposed them to move from 

 Asia Minor and the Greeh Islands, seehiny new settlements in Eyypty 

 The attempt that Ramses II. defeated in the lifetime of Seti I. was 

 now renewed, apparently on a more formidable scale. They had 

 already entered Egypt and spread themselves over the W. of the 

 Delta where they intended to settle, when the Egyptian forces 

 attacked them and put them to rout after a battle of six hour's' 

 diu'ation. 



Citing from Brugsch' s " Under the Pharaohs" (1891), p. 243, it is 

 stated, "The "Wars of Seti {^circ. b.c. 1366), arose from the constant 

 advance of neighboui'ing peoples uj)on the Delta, p. 249. Seti carried 

 his wars to the W. ; in particular against the Lybian tribes, who now 

 appear for the first tims in the Eyyptian monuments. The double 

 plume on the crown of the head, and the side locks of hair, mark in 

 the most striking manner these races, which the inscriptions designate 



