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IV. The hostility to the god Seth, Nahas, or Noubti, 

 which arose in the minds of the Egyptian priests, and which 

 led to the defacement of all monuments in which he appears 

 as a beneficent god, and of his name when forming a part of 

 names of kings. The time when this hostility arose, and the 

 cause of it, are yet unexplained ; but it could not have led to 

 this defacement sooner than 1 100, B. C. This defacement is 

 conspicuous on the statues of Menephthah III. at Turin and 

 London, and the Flaminian Obelisk of Menephthah I. at 

 Rome, and frequently at Karnac. 



It is incidentally mentioned that Pone, or Penne, is Lower 

 Egypt ; its extremities being mentioned in a papyrus in the 

 British Museum in connexion with Ebo, or Elephantine, as 

 the limits of Egypt. And the titles " King of Penne," 

 "King of the Pure Country," which occur in the second car- 

 touches of many Egyptian kings, are shewn to imply that the 

 kings bearing those titles were only kings of parts of Egypt; 

 a King of Penne, or Lower Egypt, like Horus, always imply- 

 ing a King of Keme, or the pure country, i. e. of Upper 

 Egypt, as Skhai and Amenothph IV. were. 



Mr. E. Clibborn made a communication respecting the 

 Hycsos, or Shepherd Kings, tending to shew that they were 

 descendants of Isaac. 



March 16. (Stated Meeting.) 



SIR Wm. R. HAMILTON, LL. D., President, in the 

 Chair. 



Resolved, — That the Rev. J. D'A. Sirr's collection of 

 Irish Antiquities be purchased on the terms recommended 

 by Council. The terms being a payment of £350, the 



