that lie fled to Greece, where lie established another kingdom. 
Other authorities give the name of “ Cecrops”* to the Pharaoh 
who first led a colony from Egypt to Greece. Accepting this 
as one of the traditional legends connected with the Exode of 
the children of Israel, avc have a singular confirmation of the 
Biblical date for that important event. For the Parian Chroni- 
cle, now at Oxford, a monument of the very highest authority, 
inasmuch as it was engraved as early as B.C. 264, opens with 
this announcement : “ Since Cecrops (a native of Sais, in Egypt, 
who led a colony to Greece) reigned at Athens, and the country 
was called Actica, from Actseus, the native, 1318 years have 
elapsed. ”t Now, 1,318 + 261 = B.C. 1582, i.e. within two 
years of our computation of the date of the Exode according to 
the Hebrew chronology. 
47. Another argument in support of this theory is to be 
found in the understanding of the Apis cycle. Not the least 
interesting or valuable of the many discoveries of Mariette Bey, 
so long the director of the Boulaque Museum near Cairo, are 
these at the Serapeum, “ arising,” as Bunsen justly says, “ from 
the light shed on chronology by the sepulchral and votive tablets 
dedicated to the mummies of the Bull Apis from the eighteenth 
Dynasty to the Romans.”! They commenced in the reign of 
Amenopliis III., who succeeded Thothmes IV., as I have already 
shown, B.C. 1580; and the discovery by Mariette of sixty-four 
of these reminiscences of the mummied Apes, or Sacred Bulls, 
will give us a clue to the chronology of the period. It is well 
known that the Apis cycle represented a period of twenty-five 
years; and without attempting to enter upon the disputed 
question as to the exact period which each sacred Bull was 
permitted to live, it will be sufficient for our purpose if we notice 
that 64 + 25 gives us in round numbers the sixteen centuries 
which intervened between the time of Amenophis III. and the 
Homans. But we have a more exact confirmation of the chro- 
nology in the following recorded fact. The death of the fortieth 
of the sixty-four Sacred Bulls is related as having taken place in 
the twelfth year of that Pharaoh Hophra, who is mentioned by 
Augustine says that “in the reign of Cecrops, King of Athens, God 
brought his people out of Egypt by Moses.” (De Civitate Dei, lib. xviii. 
§ 8 .) 
t Marmora Arundelliana, p. 6, Selden’s edition, London, 1G28. This 
is one of the few uninjured inscriptions when Selden published his work. 
J Egypt's Place in Universal History, book i. § 1. See Bunsen’s account 
of the Apis Cycle and the tombs of the sacred Apes, taken from Mariette’s 
Serapeum, fob Paris ; Clioix do Monuments , 4to., Paris, and other works 
which treat oil this difficult subject. 
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