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16 CHRONOLOGY BY GENEALOGIES ch. i.
of the kings served, and still serves, in spite of its cor-
rupted state, as a guide for assigning to the royal
names read on the monuments their place in the
Dynasties. The pedigree of twenty-four court archi-
tects, as given in the opposite Table, the last mentioned
of whom, Khnum-ab-Ra, was alive in the twenty-seventh
and thirtieth years of the reign of Darius I., has given
rise to the new method of fixing the dates of the
Pharaohs anterior to the Twenty-sixth Dynasty, with
the help of existing series of genealogies.
The credit of this is due to a Swedish scholar, M-
Lieblein.
The importance of his standard for all measurements
of Egyptian chronology is incontestable. Assuming the
round number of a century for three consecutive human
lives, we possess the means of determining approxi-
mately the time which has elapsed from King Mena to
the end of the Twelfth Dynasty, and again from the
beginning of the Eighteenth Dynasty to the end of the
Twenty-sixth.
As far as present discoveries go there is no possible
means of doing so more exactly. The Tablet of Abydos,
in a corridor of the temple of Seti I. at Harabat-el-
Madfuneh, gives a succession of sixty-five kings from
Mena, the founder of the line, down to the last reign of
the Twelfth Dynasty. To these sovereigns, therefore,
would be assigned a period of eJ x 100 = 2166
years.
It appears certain that the long series of the kings,
which the Turin Papyrus once contained, was arranged
by the author according to his own ideas and views;
for he gives carefully, besides the names of the
Pharaohs, the years, months, and days of their reigns,
but he forgets to give any account of the contemporary
rei<ms of two kings, which have been proved beyond
of the kings served, and still serves, in spite of its cor-
rupted state, as a guide for assigning to the royal
names read on the monuments their place in the
Dynasties. The pedigree of twenty-four court archi-
tects, as given in the opposite Table, the last mentioned
of whom, Khnum-ab-Ra, was alive in the twenty-seventh
and thirtieth years of the reign of Darius I., has given
rise to the new method of fixing the dates of the
Pharaohs anterior to the Twenty-sixth Dynasty, with
the help of existing series of genealogies.
The credit of this is due to a Swedish scholar, M-
Lieblein.
The importance of his standard for all measurements
of Egyptian chronology is incontestable. Assuming the
round number of a century for three consecutive human
lives, we possess the means of determining approxi-
mately the time which has elapsed from King Mena to
the end of the Twelfth Dynasty, and again from the
beginning of the Eighteenth Dynasty to the end of the
Twenty-sixth.
As far as present discoveries go there is no possible
means of doing so more exactly. The Tablet of Abydos,
in a corridor of the temple of Seti I. at Harabat-el-
Madfuneh, gives a succession of sixty-five kings from
Mena, the founder of the line, down to the last reign of
the Twelfth Dynasty. To these sovereigns, therefore,
would be assigned a period of eJ x 100 = 2166
years.
It appears certain that the long series of the kings,
which the Turin Papyrus once contained, was arranged
by the author according to his own ideas and views;
for he gives carefully, besides the names of the
Pharaohs, the years, months, and days of their reigns,
but he forgets to give any account of the contemporary
rei<ms of two kings, which have been proved beyond