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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Amenemha I., or Ammenemes, probably twice deposed, and
afterwards restored, contemporary with Munt-hotp, and with
a Shepherd-chief . . . . . . . .144

The Fourteenth Dynasty, or Xoite Kingdom . . . .147

SECTION IV.

History of the Period of the Shepherd-Domikation.

Chedorlaomer and the Kings confederate with him : their two
Invasions of Palestine, the first of which probably caused the

Shepherds to invade Egypt......148

Great Famines must have caused many Shepherds to settle in

Egypt ''-. • •.......150

Probable reasons why the Shepherds so easily subjugated

Egypt v'y ^ . . . K»fj 1 . . 150

Manetho's account of the Shepherd-invasion: King Timaios,

or Timaos, in whose Reign he says that Event happened . 151
Appellations of the Shepherds : their Race . . . .152

" The Camp of the Tyrians " at Memphis, mentioned by He-
rodotus . . . . • • ■ .152

Treatment of the conquered Country and People by the Shep-
herds .......... 153

Great changes in the Egyptian Dynasties, caused by the Shep-
herd-invasion . . . . . . . . .154

Chronology of the Twelfth Dynasty (of Diospolites) . .155
Sesertesen I.: his Power, and the Monuments he has left . 157

Amenemha II..........158

Chronology of the Period from the Suphises to Amenemha II. 159
Differences of Style in Sculptures and Paintings of different
Ages . • • • • • • • . . 159

Sesertesen II. . . . . . . . .161

Sesertesen III., Manetho's Sesostris . . . . .161

Amenemha TIL, to whom Manetho ascribes the Building of the
Labyrinth . . . . . . . . .161

Contemporaneousness of Amenemha III. with two other
Kings, ascertained from an Inscription . . . .162

The Successors of Amenemha III. ..... 163

Chronology of the Shepherd-Dynasties . . . .163

Salatis, the first King of the Fifteenth Dynasty, (of Shep-
herds,) according to Manetho made Upper and Lower Egypt
tributary ......... 166