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river at Thebes, the colossi of Amunhotep III. on the river-flat reveal no material change in the 

 river and its inundations : I was only surprised at the slight depth of river-deposit around their base. 

 2056 B. C. (= 776 -f- 43 -)- 1237 enumerated years = "40 -f- 1240," Eusebius in another place 

 giving 1 181 + 877th = 2057 = 2015 -f "43d year" of Hieronymus). accession of Belus, sixth lineal 

 ancestor of Ninus, and first king of the Assyrians ; a people possessing as yet only local importance 

 — (Abyden., Cast., Cephal., Augustin. civ. D. xviii. 21, and Syncell.). The tomb of Belus opened by 

 Xerxes was found to contain a legible inscription (Ael. xiii. 3). 



2054 B. C. (= 1413 -f- "348 -j- 103 -f- 190 years " of the Euseb.-Maneth. table and the Egyp- 

 tian Chronicle), a date, the Egyptian Chronicle not being exclusively national, possibly referring to 

 the last-named change in Assyrian history. 



" 2040 B. C. == 1st year of Hoai, of the Hia " or Third dynasty — (Chinese chron. table). 

 " 2037 B. C. = 4th year of Hoai " (Chinese chron. table), beginning of the Eleventh cycle. 

 Sixty-eighth generation. Sept. 1st, 2034, mostly beyond youth : 



Belus succeeded by Babius, fifth lineal ancestor of Ninus, and second king of the Assyrians 

 (Abydenus in Euseb. i. 12. p. 36). 



Amunemhat III. Ma-en-ra building the pyramid near the Labyrinth. It contains his name, and 

 is the latest of "sixty-seven" (Leps. eg. and sin. p. 14) known Egyptian pyramids; each of them 

 constructed for a king's tomb. 



2029 B^C. = " 42d year of Amunemhat III.," on the monuments — (C. Mull. fr. Man. p. 562). 

 2028 B. C. (= 2015 y. 10 mo. 13 d. -f- " 4 -\- 8 years " of the Afr.-Maneth. table = 

 2210 — "46—38—48 — 8 — 42 years " of the Euseb.-Maneth. table, the " 44th 

 I year of Amunemhat III." at Wadi Maghara giving 2027, and the Turin papyrus "3 y. 

 10 mo. 4 d. -\- 9 y. 3 mo. 27 d." = 2029), Am£res succeeded by AmSn£mes, seventh 

 king of the Twelfth dynasty- To whose reign " eight " years only are assigned in the 

 Afr.-Maneth. table, but " 9 y. 3 mo. 27 d." in the Turin papyrus. The name of king Amunemhat 

 IV. occurs on a stela, and on other movable articles (now in the museums of Europe): — also in 

 later times, in the chamber of kings at Karnak, and in the order of succession on the tablet at Abydos. 

 /" "\ 2020 B. C. (= 2015 y. 10 mo. 13 d. —J— " 3 y. 10 mo. 13 d." of the Turin papyrus, or 

 "4 years" of the Afr.-Maneth. table), AmSnSmes succeeded by his sister SkSmio- 

 phris, now queen of Egypt. She is referred to the Twelfth dynasty in the Turin 

 papyrus, and in the Afr.-Maneth. table : but the title " Ra-sebaknofru," found among 

 S- ' the ruins of the Labyrinth (Leps. d. ii. pi. 140), in its changed style indicates change 

 of dynasty. The same title, in different forms, occurs on other monuments : — and in the order of 

 this queen's succession in the chamber at Karnak. 



Diospyrus reticulata of Madagascar. If the word " hbni " in hieroglyphic characters under the 

 Twelfth dynasty (Leps.) is correctly translated ebony, this material was already brought to and down 

 the Nile from the Indian Ocean, probably from Madagascar : — the sticks of ebony figured in tribute- 

 processions under the Eighteenth dynasty are in the hands of Southern delegates ; " ebnym " brought 

 with elephants' tusks by the men of Dedan, is mentioned by Ezekiel xxvii. 15; " £v£non " was 

 brought by the Ethiopians on the Nile to Darius (Herodot. iii. 97 to 114), the trees growing beyond 

 Meroe (according to Pliny vi. 35 and xii. 8) ; the " aithiopike " kind is distinguished by Strabo xvii. 

 2, and Dioscorides ; and to the present day, Madagascar continues the main source of the ebony of 

 commerce. D. reticulata is described by Willdenow ; and according to Tennent i. 117 is the source 

 of " the ebony of Mauritius " (Drury). 



" 2016 B. C." (= 1589 -f " 205 + 29 + 30 + 32 + 30 + 34 + 30 + 35 + -z years " of Gen. x. 

 22 to xi. 32 = 710 -f- " 1306 years " of Diodor. ii. 28, Agath., Euseb., Syncell., and Clint, v. p.), the 

 Abrahamic era, also called the "Assyrian era." (Nicolas p. 24 agrees, but p. 17 places the era at 

 " 2015, Oct. 1st," = 710 -j- " 1305 years " of Augustin. civ. D. xviii. 21 = 2070 — " 55 years " of 

 Syncell. = 1614 + " 402d year" of Clemens Alexandrinus in Euseb. prsp. x. p. 497;. 



The same year (= 2015 y. 10 mo. 13 d. = 2229 — " 213 y. 1 mo. 17 d." of the Turin papyrus = 

 2020 — " 4 years " of the Afr.-Maneth. table), end of the reign of queen Skemiophris : in what man- 

 ner is not mentioned, but interference with the established religion is marked by the building of tem- 

 ples—ceasing for nearly four hundred years. 



The name of king Sebakhotep, of the. Thirteenth dynasty, occurs on the foundation 



I of the temple of Kummeh at Samneh, in inscriptions marking the highest rise of the 



Nile (Leps. d. ii. pi. 151 and eg. and sin. 20). Also on other contemporaneous monu- 



I ments : — and he is next in the order of succession in the chamber of kings at Karnak. 



" 2014 B. C. = 1st year of Mang, of the Hia " or Third dynasty (Chinese chron. table). 



Sixty-ninth generation. Jan. 1st, 2000, mostly beyond youth : 



