48 CHRONOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS 



The name of Takelet II., the ninth and last king of the Twenty- 

 Second Egyptian Dynasty, has been found on the monuments. 



The 2ta<dyainos of Orpheus, Philistion, Phanias of Eresus, Diocles, 

 Dieuches, Cleophantus, Pliny, and Athenasus, according to the received 

 opinion and Sibthorp's account of the Greek usage, is the carrot 

 (Daucus carota). — The description by Dioscorides, corresponds; and 

 at the present day, the carrot is abundantly cultivated in Egypt. 



" At the command of the Delphic Oracle, Iphitus restored the Olym- 

 pian games :" and this Olympiad of Iphitus, is placed by Callimachus, 

 Africanus, and Clinton (ii. p. 500), in B. C. 828. Iphitus, by the 

 general consent of Antiquity, was contemporary with Lycurgus, the 

 Spartan lawgiver ; who (according to Simonides and others) was the 

 son of Prytanis, the fifth king of Sparta in the Proclid line. 



Mane th o (or perhaps Africanus) evidently alludes to the Olympiad of 

 Iphitus in stating, that the "First" Olympiad was celebrated in the 

 time of Petubastes, the first king of the Twenty-Third Egyptian 

 Dynasty. The Africano-Manetho numbers (counting upwards and 

 downwards, from the Nineteenth Dynasty inclusive) give B. C. 825-3 

 for the accession of Petubastes ; and we obtain nearly the same result 

 from the Old Egyptian Chronicle (for 194 + 228 + 121 + 48 = 591, and 

 135 + 209 + 130 + 116 = 590). The name of King Petpacht, or Petu- 

 bastes, has been found on the monuments by Prisse and Lepsius. 



The "kykywn" of Jonah iv. G, may be compared with the "sikya" 

 or "kikya" of Theophrastus and the early Greeks ; admitted to be a 

 variety of the gourd (Lagenaria). — In Egypt, however, the musk-mehn 

 (Cucumis melo) is sometimes called "kauun;" and the "sikyos" of 

 Alcoeus, Phrynichus, and iEneas Tacticus 29, seems to correspond. 

 The musk-melon is distinctly mentioned by Cratinus (according to 

 Athenaeus), and by Galen (De Alinien. Facult. 2), Palladius (Martio 9), 

 and Florentinus (Geoponica xii. 20). 



The name of Userkna, the second king of the Twenty-Third Egyp- 

 tian Dynasty, has been found on the monuments by Lepsius. 



The First registered Olympiad, B. C. 776, is placed by Eusebius 

 and the Parian Marble in the second year of the Athenian archon 

 iEschylus; and by Eusebius and Clinton, in the time of the Jewish 

 king Azariah or Uzziah. 



The name of Psimut, the third king of the Twenty-Third Egyptian 

 Dynasty, has been found on the temple at Karnac; and also, on the 

 ruins of a small building in the immediate vicinity. 



