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date1 of 13S0 B.C. for the accession of Akhenaten.2 It is highly-
probable that we may some day find a synchronism between Kham-
murabi himself and some Egyptian king. There is a tendency, for
instance, among Egyptologists to hark back to Josephus,3 and to
regard the sojourn of Israel in Egypt as an echo of the Hyksos conquest.4
From the Babylonian point of view Mr. King sees no difficulty in now
identifying Khammurabi with the Amraphel of Genesis xiv., and points
out that if the call of Abraham is thus put in the Twentieth Century,
and the Exodus in the reign of Merenptah, 1234-1214 B.C., the interval
that the Hebrew Text places between the two events is seen to repre-
sent a better tradition than is generally imagined.5 On the Berlin
dating for the Hyksos, from the eighteenth to the seventeenth century,
there will be no difficulty in connecting them with the sojourn of the
Israelites in Egypt. On the Sinai dating, which begins the XVth
Dynasty in 2533 B.C.," it will be difficult, if not out of the question.
Generally speaking, too, as Mr. King sees,7 the two civilisations touch
each other closely, and that of Mesopotamia is, if anything, the earlier.
To adapt a metaphor from the Stock Exchange, the general fall in
Babylonians cannot fail to affect the Egyptian market. It may be
mentioned in passing that the total absence of Second Dynasty in-
scriptions from all early Babylonian sites as yet excavated 8 is now
shown to be no mere accident ; the inference cannot be ignored as
to the true significance of the absence of content in the " great gap "
in Egyptian history.^
The solution of one of our other most difficult problems has also been
advanced. One of the chief centres of the Neolithic Pottery of Central
Europe is Servia.10 Servian ware is not beautiful, like that of South
Russia," Galicia,12or Bukowina,13 but the modelling and incised designs
1 It is only fair to Petrie to add that for this date he is in agreement
with Meyer.
2 Attention may be called, in passing, to the letter in the Times of
Aug. 3, which states that the body found in the supposed tomb of
Queen Tyi (see p. 96) proves, on reference to the anatomists, not to
be that of a woman at all, but that of a young man.
3 Contra Apioncm i., 14 ( = 91-2).
4 Breasted, Hist. p. 220. It should be noticed that neither Breasted
nor King is responsible for this suggested combination.
3 Chronicles, p. 22.
6 See p. 69.
7 Chronicles, pp. 1S-21.
8 Ibid. p. 108.
8 See p. 71.
10 See p. 185.
11 Now at Kief and Odessa. See pp. 188-9.
12 Now at Lemberg.
13 Now in the Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum at Vienna.
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date1 of 13S0 B.C. for the accession of Akhenaten.2 It is highly-
probable that we may some day find a synchronism between Kham-
murabi himself and some Egyptian king. There is a tendency, for
instance, among Egyptologists to hark back to Josephus,3 and to
regard the sojourn of Israel in Egypt as an echo of the Hyksos conquest.4
From the Babylonian point of view Mr. King sees no difficulty in now
identifying Khammurabi with the Amraphel of Genesis xiv., and points
out that if the call of Abraham is thus put in the Twentieth Century,
and the Exodus in the reign of Merenptah, 1234-1214 B.C., the interval
that the Hebrew Text places between the two events is seen to repre-
sent a better tradition than is generally imagined.5 On the Berlin
dating for the Hyksos, from the eighteenth to the seventeenth century,
there will be no difficulty in connecting them with the sojourn of the
Israelites in Egypt. On the Sinai dating, which begins the XVth
Dynasty in 2533 B.C.," it will be difficult, if not out of the question.
Generally speaking, too, as Mr. King sees,7 the two civilisations touch
each other closely, and that of Mesopotamia is, if anything, the earlier.
To adapt a metaphor from the Stock Exchange, the general fall in
Babylonians cannot fail to affect the Egyptian market. It may be
mentioned in passing that the total absence of Second Dynasty in-
scriptions from all early Babylonian sites as yet excavated 8 is now
shown to be no mere accident ; the inference cannot be ignored as
to the true significance of the absence of content in the " great gap "
in Egyptian history.^
The solution of one of our other most difficult problems has also been
advanced. One of the chief centres of the Neolithic Pottery of Central
Europe is Servia.10 Servian ware is not beautiful, like that of South
Russia," Galicia,12or Bukowina,13 but the modelling and incised designs
1 It is only fair to Petrie to add that for this date he is in agreement
with Meyer.
2 Attention may be called, in passing, to the letter in the Times of
Aug. 3, which states that the body found in the supposed tomb of
Queen Tyi (see p. 96) proves, on reference to the anatomists, not to
be that of a woman at all, but that of a young man.
3 Contra Apioncm i., 14 ( = 91-2).
4 Breasted, Hist. p. 220. It should be noticed that neither Breasted
nor King is responsible for this suggested combination.
3 Chronicles, p. 22.
6 See p. 69.
7 Chronicles, pp. 1S-21.
8 Ibid. p. 108.
8 See p. 71.
10 See p. 185.
11 Now at Kief and Odessa. See pp. 188-9.
12 Now at Lemberg.
13 Now in the Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum at Vienna.