22 8 CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



"625 Tan 27th" (= 604+ "21 years" of the Astronom. can, and Clint.), Chinaladanus suc- 

 ceeded by Nabopolassar as king at Babylon. (By Alex. Polyhistor, "twenty " years only are assigned 

 to his reign ; but in another place where he is called " Sardanapallus, 21 " are given. See also byn- 



cell. p. 210). , , . _ . , , . 



"The same year" (Diog. Laert, and Clint.), Cypselus succeeded by his son Penander, as king 

 of Corinth. By some writers, Periander is enumerated as one of the " Seven sages." ^ 



"623 B. C." (Herodot, and Clint.), commencement of war between the Lydian king Sadyattes 

 and the Milesian Greeks. — The war continued " eleven " years. 



The same year (= 639 y. 73^ d. - " 18th year " of twelve lunations of 2 K xxu 3, and 2 

 Chron. xxxiv. 8), the lost "book of the law " given by Moses, discovered in the temple at Jerusalem 

 by the high priest Hilkiah, and brought to king Josiah. 



" 621, Saturday April 22d, five hours after midnight » (as reduced by Ptolemy to the meridian of 

 Alexandria, Blair), Fourth Babylonian eclipse of the moon. 



"The same year = 33d year of Siang-wang" (the Li-tai-ki-sse, Sse-ma-thsian, Gaub.l, and 

 Pauth.), death of Mou-koung prince of Thsin ; at whose funeral " one hundred and seventy-seven " 

 persons immolated themselves ; a custom now first introduced into China from the " Tartars of the 

 West." — The custom is mentioned as existing among the Scythians, by Herodotus. 



" The same year " (Tat., Clem. Alex, and Clint), the Laws of Dracon adopted at Athens. 



620 B. C. = "45th year of Psametik," the date (according to Boeckh and Franzius) of the ear- 

 liest Greek inscription known; that at Abousimbel in Nubia, recording the passage of king Psametik's 

 army and presenting the following forms of letters, . . /S A, B, ®, K, A, AA, N, V, #, X, V. 



The "Third " epoch in Nubian or Ethiopian history (according to Lepsius eg. and sin. 17, 29, 

 Is2 to 219), is that of kings independent of Egypt: the kings of Meroe, whose dominion extended 

 not only over Upper Nubia, but as far down the river as Philae. — At Meroe, near Begerauieh, the 

 names of "fifteen" different kings were found by Lepsius p. 152; and among "about thirty different 

 names of kings and queens " at the pyramids there, he remarked the " emblems of Sesurtesen " used 

 " for the fourth time as the throne name of an Ethiopian king." The temple of Amara was "built by 

 the kings of Meroe and Nag.i : " and Napata continued to be a residence of the " Ethiopian kings even 

 in the time of Herodotus/' The Ethiopian demotic was " more in use and more generally known 

 than hieroglyphic" writing; was " similar to the Egyptian demotic in its characters" of "between 

 twenty-five and thirty signs," and was in like manner " read from right to left; " but there is a "con- 

 stant separation of words by two points : " the Bega language of the Bishari, is regarded by him as 

 " most probably the key to the ancient Ethiopian inscriptions written in simple characters." 



"618 B. C. = 1st year of King-wang, of the Tcheou " or Fifth dynasty (Chinese chron. table). 



" 617 B. C." (= 629 -|- " 12 years " of Herodot. i. 16, Clint, i. p. 184), Sadyattes succeeded by 

 his son Alyattes, as king of Lydia. 



" 616 B. C." (= 578 -(- " 38 yrs," Sm. b. d.), Ancus Marcius succeeded by Tarquinius Priscus, 

 fifth king of Rome, and the calendar Year of " ten months " abrogated (Jun. Gracchan.). Tarqui- 

 nius Priscus was a son of Demaratus of Corinth, one of the expelled Bacchiadae. 



Hardly earlier than this date (Graha Munjari table's, Puranas, and Bentley as. res. viii. p. 244), 

 Sucshetra reigning in Hindustan. 



" In the reign of Alyattes" (Herodot.), the Cimmerians finally expelled from Asia Minor. 



"613 B. C." (Humb. cosm. iv. 185), a. comet observed in China: the earliest — in the collection 

 of Ma-tuan-lin. 



In this vear = "53d year of Psammetichus," death of an Apis or sacred bull. Its mummified 

 body was the first one deposited in the new gallery at the Serapeum ; built together with additions to 

 the great temple of Ptah at Memphis by Psammetichus — (Birch). 



"6i2 B. C. = 1st year of Kouang-wang, of the Tcheou" or Fifth dynasty (Chinese chron. table). 



"April 28th." On the "first day of the Sixth month" (Khoung-tseu, Gaabil, and Pauth.), 

 eclipse of the sun. 



" 610 B. C." (Euseb , and Clint.), escape from pirates of Arion the inventor of dithyrambic poe- 

 try. A commemorative votive offering of a small bronze statue of a man seated on a dolphin, was 

 placed on the Taenarum promontory; — where it remained more than seven hundred years, being 

 mentioned by Herodotus, and Aelianus xii. 45. 



|5^ ^Ht The same year (= 609 y. 10 mo. 2 d. -)- the portion of his " 1st year" preceding the 

 ^ ■' first day " of the eleventh month " Epiphi " of the stela at Leyden = 570 — f- " 25 — |— 

 6 -(- 16 years" of Herodotus — 7 years excess shown by stelae), Psammetihos suc- 

 ceeded by N£ha6 II, fifth king of the Twenty-sixth dynasty. The name of king 

 Nekau II. occurs at Rosetta (Glid. analect.), also on stelae or sepulchral slabs. 



609 B. C. (= 569 -f- " 27th -f- 65 y. 10 mo. 2 days " of the stela at Leyden), the " first day of the 

 month Epiphi in the first year of Nekau II," not later than this date. 



