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)

Sect. VI.]

DATE OF QUEEN AMEN-NUMT.

05

that the fourth year of a King whose name is erased,
but whose square title remains, dated in the First
Division of the Sixth G. P. M. This King is Skhee;
for Mr. Birch, of the British Museum, a scholar well
known for his extensive and accurate knowledge of
Egyptian archaeology, assures me that the square title
is a variation of that usually found with his name.
The First Division of the Sixth G. P. M. commenced
in July, B.C. 1472; and the succeeding Division com-
menced in January, B.C. 1470. This gives the date of
Skhee's fourth year, 1472-1, and shows that he came
to the throne in some part of the years B.C. 1475-4.

The next date which I have found I believe to be
of the time of Queen Amen-numt, who reigned for a

time conjointly with Thothmes II. and Thothmes III.
The date is in a tomb at Thebes, where the royal name
has been almost entirely obliterated by the wantonness
of travellers, or the deliberate plunder of those who
should have set a better example. From the style of
its paintings, the tomb evidently belongs to the earlier
part of the Eighteenth Dynasty, and what remains of
the royal name shows that it was painted in the time
of Amenoph I., II., or III., or Queen Amen-numt. 1
formerly stated that my uncle, Mr. E. W. Lane, was
almost certain that he remembered this tomb to be of
the time of Amenoph II., and thought it highly pro-
bable that, when he examined it some years ago, the
King's name was uninjured. Since I published this
opinion, my uncle has found among his papers a note

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