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CHRONOLOGICAL OBSERVATION 



Africano-Manetho Table of Chronology. The separate Dynasties, 

 however, do not give the same result : though the presence of a large 

 surplus may be inferred ; from the years of the Ninth, Tenth, and 

 Eleventh Dynasties, equalling those of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth; 

 and from the discrepancy in the length of Shepherd rule, in Josephus' 

 quotation from Manetho. From the Eighteenth to the Seventh 

 Dynasties inclusive, we count 2812 yrs. 70 days, an excess over a 

 Great Year of 1272 yrs. 70 days; and these precise results will be 

 found expressed by the separate Dynasties, if they are arranged in the 

 following manner : 



"VII. Memphite, . . 



yrs. 70 days. 







IX. Heracleopolite, 



. 409 







X. Heracleopolite, 



. 185 







XI. Theban, . . . 



. 43 



VIII. Memphite, 



. 146 yrs 



Ammenenie, 



. 16 



XII. Theban, 



. 160 



XIV. Xoite, . . . 



. 184 



XIII. Theban, 



. 453 



XV. Shepherd, . . 



. 284 



XVI. Shepherd, 



. 518 



XVII. Shepherd and The! 



>an, 151 



XVIII. Theban, 



. 263" 



1272 yrs. 70 days. 



1540 yrs. 



The Second Great Year being thus accounted for, there remains a 

 Third, before reaching the commencement of the Egyptian Chronology. 

 Continuing backwards in the Table, we have, 



"I. Thinite, . . 



II. Thinite, . . 



III. Memphite, . 



IV. Memphite, . 

 V. Elephantinite, 



VI. Memphite, . 



Not far off, is the number, . 



253 yrs. 

 302 

 214 

 277 

 248 

 203" 

 " 43 " (the yrs. of the XL Dynasty). 



1540 yrs. 



In the two last determinations, I was assisted by a suggestion of 

 C. Muller : That the Nitocris, who closes the Sixth Dynasty, and "her 

 yellow hair and red cheeks," and who (according to Herodotus) " was 

 burned," refers to the phoenix (Fragm. Historic. Graec. vol. ii. p. 520). 

 Let us now compare the names, N/t^kpis; Kenx^, on the monuments 

 HoNt-Re CHe, as read by Champollion (see Champollion-Figeac, 

 Egypte Anc. p. 329); v>oxwf>"i or b *yx*'P'<, pronounced BoNCHoRis; and 

 aCHeRNaR, the Arabic name of the bright star in the constellation 



