Poole, Reginald S.: Horae Aegypticae: or, the chronology of ancient Egypt: discovered from astronomical and hieroglyphic records upon its monuments, including many dates found in coeval inscriptions from the period of the building of the Great Pyramid to the times of the Persians ; and illustrations of the history of the first nineteen dynasties, shewing the order of their succession, from the monuments (London, 1851)

CONTENTS.

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The Division of the Great Panegyrical Month . . .56
The Great Panegyrical Year. . . . . . .58

The Date of the Commencement of the Second Great Pane- •

gyrical Year in the Time of the two Suphises . . .61
The Date of the Commencement of the First Great Pane-
gyrical Year, the Era of Menes. . . . . .63

Date in the Time of Skhai, or Skhee . . . . .64

Date in the Time of Queen Amen-numt . . . .65

Another Date in the Time of Queen Amen-numt . . .66
Date in the Time of Psammetichus II. . . ■ .67
Date in the Time of Amasis . . . . . .67

Date in the Tomb of Pet-amen-apt, at Thebes . . .68

SECTION VII.
The Royal Panegyries.
The Thirty-Year Period of Royal Panegyries . . . .71

The Subdivision of the Thirty-Year Period of Royal Pane-
gyries .......... 73

PART II. HISTORY.

SECTION I.
Introductory Observations.

The Order of the First Seventeen Dynasties of Manetho's

List...........79

Some leading historical Facts relating to those Dynasties . 83

SECTION II.
The Lists of Manetho and the Monuments.

A Table of Manetho's List of the First Five Dynasties . . 86
A Table of Manetho's List of the Sixth and Eleven subse-

quent Dynasties . . . . . . . .88

Remarks on these Tables, and on a Table at the End of the

Volume..........90

The List of the Chamber of Kings . . . . .91

The Tablet of Abydos........91

The Royal Turin Papyrus . t .... 92