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OPERATIONS CARRIED ON AT GIZEII.
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and to whose skill and industry are chiefly due whatever
discoveries may have been made.
August 7th.-—The establishment at the Pyramids was
initial symbol, similarly to the contractions common to all monuments.
An inspection of the lists of early monarchs seems to justify the theory,
that the disc of the sun, universally dominant in prenomcns, was occa-
sionally suffixed in the spoken dialect. By this metathesis, Men-kah-re
is obtained, comprising all the elements of the names in question ; and
the translation implies, "the dedicated offering to the sun" — sufficiently'
near to the paraphrase 'HA/ocWe; of Eratosthenes.
The whole passage of this author, who derived his information from
Egyptian sources, states Q/.Zaiuv MU%X%ora MoV^Egi;, 'HAi'scWo?' tvt A*' tow
Se xlrfiov ijv etoo- y to. In this passage is an ellipsis of i£ between the first
and second words, and of avrtt i^uwiUrxi between MoV^tgi; and 'H>i/o&Wo;.
"The Seventeenth King of Thebes was Moscheris (Moicheris Jabl.),
whose name means, 'Given to the Sun:' he reigned thirty-one years.
It was the three hundred and seventy-third year of the world."
The cartouche is not in any respect similar to those of his predeces-
sors, Suphis I. and Suphis II., as far as they can be ascertained : it
resembles rather those of the Sixteenth Dynasty, but there is no tra-
ditional or internal evidence to determine that Mukerinos was either the
founder or monarch of another line; and the list of Africanus fixes him to
the immediate succession and lineage of Suphis.
Enough has been eliminated of the meaning and application of the
hieroglyphics to enable the whole of the text of the coffin to be made
out; and although the allusion in itself would appear ambiguous, yet
sufficient light is shed upon it by monuments of an approximate and
later era to justify the interpretation. It consists of an address to the
deceased monarch, as identified with Osiris, whose name every embalmed
individual bore. Isis and Nephthys, the sister deities and companions of
Osiris, direct a like invocation to the monarch Enantef, whose inner
wooden coffin is in the collection of the British Museum. In the hiero-
glyphics of the coffin of Mukerinos, the unity of the king, under his
character of Osiris, is kept up throughout, that deity being the son of
Netpe and Seb, the Egyptian Rhea, and Saturn. Osiris is called, on the
95
and to whose skill and industry are chiefly due whatever
discoveries may have been made.
August 7th.-—The establishment at the Pyramids was
initial symbol, similarly to the contractions common to all monuments.
An inspection of the lists of early monarchs seems to justify the theory,
that the disc of the sun, universally dominant in prenomcns, was occa-
sionally suffixed in the spoken dialect. By this metathesis, Men-kah-re
is obtained, comprising all the elements of the names in question ; and
the translation implies, "the dedicated offering to the sun" — sufficiently'
near to the paraphrase 'HA/ocWe; of Eratosthenes.
The whole passage of this author, who derived his information from
Egyptian sources, states Q/.Zaiuv MU%X%ora MoV^Egi;, 'HAi'scWo?' tvt A*' tow
Se xlrfiov ijv etoo- y to. In this passage is an ellipsis of i£ between the first
and second words, and of avrtt i^uwiUrxi between MoV^tgi; and 'H>i/o&Wo;.
"The Seventeenth King of Thebes was Moscheris (Moicheris Jabl.),
whose name means, 'Given to the Sun:' he reigned thirty-one years.
It was the three hundred and seventy-third year of the world."
The cartouche is not in any respect similar to those of his predeces-
sors, Suphis I. and Suphis II., as far as they can be ascertained : it
resembles rather those of the Sixteenth Dynasty, but there is no tra-
ditional or internal evidence to determine that Mukerinos was either the
founder or monarch of another line; and the list of Africanus fixes him to
the immediate succession and lineage of Suphis.
Enough has been eliminated of the meaning and application of the
hieroglyphics to enable the whole of the text of the coffin to be made
out; and although the allusion in itself would appear ambiguous, yet
sufficient light is shed upon it by monuments of an approximate and
later era to justify the interpretation. It consists of an address to the
deceased monarch, as identified with Osiris, whose name every embalmed
individual bore. Isis and Nephthys, the sister deities and companions of
Osiris, direct a like invocation to the monarch Enantef, whose inner
wooden coffin is in the collection of the British Museum. In the hiero-
glyphics of the coffin of Mukerinos, the unity of the king, under his
character of Osiris, is kept up throughout, that deity being the son of
Netpe and Seb, the Egyptian Rhea, and Saturn. Osiris is called, on the