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EGYPTIAN APCHITECTURE.
Part I.
OUTLINE OF EGYPTIAN CHEONOLOGY.
ACCORDING TO MANETHO AND THE MONUMENTS.
OLD KINGDOM OF PYPAMID BUILDERS.
1st
dynasty.. .Thinite.
Yeai-s.
. 252
Accession of Menes, 1st king.
2nd
55 * * * 55 .
. 302
3rd
„ ...Memphite .
. 214
Ten dynasties of kings, reigning
4th
„ „ .
. 284
sometimes contemporaneousiy in
5 th
...Elephantine ....
. 248
Upper and in Lower Egypt; at other
6th
„ ...Memphite .
.. 203
times both divisions were united
7th
„ ... „ 70 days
?
under one king,
8th
55 * * • 55 .
. 146
The total durationof their reigns,
9 th
„ ...Heracleapolite....
. 100?
as nearly as can be estimated, was
10th
,, ... ,, ....
. 185
1335 years.
FIRST THEBAN KINGDOM.
11th „ ...Thebans . 43 Commenced . 2571
12th „ ... „ . 246 over Upper, 188 over Lower Egypt.
SHEPHERD INYASION. 2340
13th „ ...Diospolites . 453 Five dynasties of Shepherd or
14th „ ...Xoite. 484 native kings reigning or existing
15th ., ...Shepherds . 284 contemporaneously in four series
16th „ ...Hellenes . 518 in different parts of Egypt during
17th „ ...Shepherds . 151 511 vears.
435
GREAT THEBAN KINGDOM.
18th
...Theban.
393
19 th
»
* * ’ 55 .
194
20th
55
135
21st
...Tanite .
130
22nd
55
.. .Bubastite.
120
23rd
...Tanite .
S9
24th
...Sai'te.
44
25th
,,
...Ethiopian.
44
26th
>■
...Sa'ite.
155
Persian
luvasion under Cambyses.
Over all Egypt . 1829
. 1436
Exode of Jews, 1312.
. 1242
. 1107
. 977
Temple of Jerusalem plundered, 972.
. 857
. 768
. 724
. 6S0
5261
1 The above scheme of Egyptian Chro-
nology was published by me in the ‘ True
Priuciples of Beauty in Art,’ in 1849;
aud the data on which it was based were
detailed in the Appendix to tliat work.
As tliere seems to bc nothing in thc sub-
sequent researclies or discoveries whicli
at all iuvaliilates tlie reasoning on wliich
the table was founded, it is here repro-
duced in an abridged form as originally
set forth.
EGYPTIAN APCHITECTURE.
Part I.
OUTLINE OF EGYPTIAN CHEONOLOGY.
ACCORDING TO MANETHO AND THE MONUMENTS.
OLD KINGDOM OF PYPAMID BUILDERS.
1st
dynasty.. .Thinite.
Yeai-s.
. 252
Accession of Menes, 1st king.
2nd
55 * * * 55 .
. 302
3rd
„ ...Memphite .
. 214
Ten dynasties of kings, reigning
4th
„ „ .
. 284
sometimes contemporaneousiy in
5 th
...Elephantine ....
. 248
Upper and in Lower Egypt; at other
6th
„ ...Memphite .
.. 203
times both divisions were united
7th
„ ... „ 70 days
?
under one king,
8th
55 * * • 55 .
. 146
The total durationof their reigns,
9 th
„ ...Heracleapolite....
. 100?
as nearly as can be estimated, was
10th
,, ... ,, ....
. 185
1335 years.
FIRST THEBAN KINGDOM.
11th „ ...Thebans . 43 Commenced . 2571
12th „ ... „ . 246 over Upper, 188 over Lower Egypt.
SHEPHERD INYASION. 2340
13th „ ...Diospolites . 453 Five dynasties of Shepherd or
14th „ ...Xoite. 484 native kings reigning or existing
15th ., ...Shepherds . 284 contemporaneously in four series
16th „ ...Hellenes . 518 in different parts of Egypt during
17th „ ...Shepherds . 151 511 vears.
435
GREAT THEBAN KINGDOM.
18th
...Theban.
393
19 th
»
* * ’ 55 .
194
20th
55
135
21st
...Tanite .
130
22nd
55
.. .Bubastite.
120
23rd
...Tanite .
S9
24th
...Sai'te.
44
25th
,,
...Ethiopian.
44
26th
>■
...Sa'ite.
155
Persian
luvasion under Cambyses.
Over all Egypt . 1829
. 1436
Exode of Jews, 1312.
. 1242
. 1107
. 977
Temple of Jerusalem plundered, 972.
. 857
. 768
. 724
. 6S0
5261
1 The above scheme of Egyptian Chro-
nology was published by me in the ‘ True
Priuciples of Beauty in Art,’ in 1849;
aud the data on which it was based were
detailed in the Appendix to tliat work.
As tliere seems to bc nothing in thc sub-
sequent researclies or discoveries whicli
at all iuvaliilates tlie reasoning on wliich
the table was founded, it is here repro-
duced in an abridged form as originally
set forth.