Heath, Dunbar I.; Corbaux, Fanny: The Exodus papyri (London, 1855)

68 THE EXODUS' PAPYRI.

sible. It implies extreme medical and nursery
skill, especially as the average thus given of" nearly
twenty-one years to each generation, must at once
be reduced somewhat in consequence of Seti II.
being known not to have been the eldest son of
both his parents. That the eldest son of the prin-
cipal queen should in the other nine consecu-
tive cases have fulfilled all the conditions necessary
to our result, is already a remarkable occurrence;
and unless the limitations mentioned above be in-
sisted upon the supposition must be rejected as im-
possible.

There being, then, at the very utmost only ten
generations possible from Thothmes III. inclusive
to Kameses III. exclusive, and there being more
kings names than ten to dispose of in the interval,
the general result I see follows, that we must be
ready to accept any indications (and they can be
found, it seems, in plenty) of the overlapping of
the reigns at this period of Egyptian history.

The first legible portion of the papyrus (74, 11)
opens with an apparent letter in a poetical form
from

The Scribe Pinebsa,

For the satisfaction of his lord,

The Scribe Amen-m-Apt,

In the palace.

This comes to give an account to my lord,

Again for the satisfaction of my lord.