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)

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The Chronology of the Period from Menes to the Suphises . 119
Sisires . . . . . . . . . .119

Mencheres, the Founder of " the Third Pyramid " . . ISO
The Successors of Mencheres, in the Fourth Dynasty, and of

Sisires, in the Fifth........121

Contemporaneousness of Unas, or Onnos, the last King of the
Fifth Dynasty, and Assa, or Assis, the fifth King of the

Fifteenth Dynasty........122

Description and Explanation of the List of the Chamber of
Kings . . . . . . . . . .124

A Table shewing the Arrangement of the List of the Chamber
of Kings . . . . . . . . .126

A Table comparing the List of the Chamber of Kings with
other Lists . . . . . . . . .128

Explanation of the List of the Chamber of Kings, resumed,
shewing the Contemporaneousness of certain Dynasties con-
tained in it . . . . . . . . 129

The Lists of Chenoboscion . . . . . . .133

The Sixth Dynasty (of Memphites).....133

Tata, or Othoes . . .....134

Papa, or Phiops: his long Reign . . . . . .135

Menthesuphis, and Queen Nitokris . . . . .135

Memphis taken by the Shepherds . . . . .136

The Ninth Dynasty, the first of Heracleopolite Kings . .136
The most probable Chronology of the two Heracleopolite
Dynasties, the Ninth and Tenth . . . . .138

Achthoes, or Nantef L, the first King of the Ninth Dynasty . 138
Nantef II., sumamed "the Great," Nantef III., and Nantef

IV...........140

Munt-hotp, the Successor of Nantef IV., shewn to have been
contemporary with Amenemha I., the last King of the
Eleventh Dynasty . . . . . . . .141

A Proof of the partial Contemporaneousness of the Ninth
Dynasty with the Eleventh and Twelfth, and with the Fif-
teenth, deduced from the Names of Persons . . .142
Similar Proof of the partial Contemporaneousness of the Second,
Fourth, Fifth, and other Dynasties, deduced from Kings'

Names . .........143

Account of the Heracleopolite Kingdom, resumed . .143
The Eleventh Dynasty, the first of Diospolite Kings . .144