50 CHRONOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS 



war (according to Tyrtseus) lasted nineteen years ; and (according to 

 Pausanias) was brought to a close in Olymp. 14, 1, or B. C. 723. 



In the sixth year of the Jewish king Hezekiah (2 Kings xvii. 6 and 

 xviii. 10), Shalmaneser captured Samaria; and removed the inhabi- 

 tants, settling colonial Israelites in Media. — In the account of the Col- 

 chians by Herodotus ii. 104, many points of resemblance will be ob- 

 served. 



The series of recorded Babylonian eclipses preserved by Claudius 

 Ptolemy (which has been of great service to historians and chronolo- 

 gers), commences in "B. C. 717" (Alsted), during the reign of Mar- 

 doch-Empadus. This king of Babylon is regarded by Clinton and 

 others, as the Merodach Baladan mentioned in 2 Kings xx. 12, and 

 in Isaiah xxxix. 1. 



The name of " Thrk," or Tirhakah, the third king of the Twenty- 

 Fifth Egyptian Dynasty, has been found on a pylon or gateway at 

 Medinet Habu ; also on mummy-cases ; and in inscriptions at Gebel 

 Barkal in Dongola, dated in the twentieth year of his reign. Tir- 

 hakah is mentioned in 2 Kings xix. 9 ; and also, by Strabo i. and xv. 



The Ethiopian queen Amnerith, or Ammeris, is placed by Eusebius 

 immediately after Tirhakah : and she appears to have exercised some 

 authority, at least in Upper Egypt. A mummy-case dated in her 

 reign is described by Birch, and is now in the Museum at London. 



In a mummy unrolled at Bristol, Herapath ascertained, that a solu- 

 tion of silver had been employed in the hieroglyphic writing; and 

 further, that the solvent was probably nitric acid* 



Herapath found some of the bandages of this mummy dyed with 

 indigo (Indigofera). — The "indicmn" of Vitruvius and Dioscorides, 

 expressly stated by Pliny (xxxv. 27) to be imported from India, is 

 admitted to be indigo : and some centuries later, as appears from the 

 Mishna, and from Abulfeda and Niederstedt, the living plant was 

 introduced into Palestine, Egypt, and Malta. Marco Polo and Nicolo 

 Conti witnessed the manufacture of indigo in Eastern Asia. 



The first three kings of the Twenty-Sixth Egyptian Dynasty are 

 known from Manetho : but their names have not been found on the 

 monuments. 



The "mlw'h" of Job xxx. 4, may be compared with " mullasah," 

 the current Egyptian name of the Suoeda baccata: and perhaps also, of 



* London and Edin. Philos. Mag., July, 1852. 



