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REMARKS ON MANETHO's LISTS. [Part II.
In the preceding tables, I have given the lists of
Manetho according to the transcript of Africanus, as
being the most correct extant; and I have added the
most important variations from the Greek text and
Armenian translation of Eusebius's Chronicle, with a
list of the Fifteenth Dynasty from the fragments of
Manetho preserved by Josephus, and a few variations
of the text of Africanus. In the abbreviations which
I have employed, E. stands for the Greek text and
Armenian translation of Eusebius when they agree ;
E. G. for the Greek text, and E. A. for the Armenian
translation.
At the end of this volume will be found a table of
the hieroglyphic names of all the Kings that I have
found to belong to particular Dynasties, from the First
to the Seventeenth inclusive; the Dynasties and Kings
being there arranged in their proper relative places,
according to the monuments, which seldom enable us
to determine the exact points of contemporaneousness
in two or more Dynasties; and the spaces allotted to
particular Kings being proportioned to the lengths of
their reigns in some particular and remarkable cases;
average length, deduced from the length of the Dynasty,
and the number of its Kings, being indicated in other
cases. Sir Gardner Wilkinson has most kindly offered
me the use of the wood-blocks from which the names
in the table above mentioned, as well as most of the
names of Kings which occur in this work, are printed.
The errours in Manetho's lists, and the manner in
which the monuments assist us in verifying or correct-
ing those lists, will be discussed in many places
throughout this portion of the present work. The
instances of corruption by copyists, to be noticed here-
after, plainly show us that we cannot rely upon the
REMARKS ON MANETHO's LISTS. [Part II.
In the preceding tables, I have given the lists of
Manetho according to the transcript of Africanus, as
being the most correct extant; and I have added the
most important variations from the Greek text and
Armenian translation of Eusebius's Chronicle, with a
list of the Fifteenth Dynasty from the fragments of
Manetho preserved by Josephus, and a few variations
of the text of Africanus. In the abbreviations which
I have employed, E. stands for the Greek text and
Armenian translation of Eusebius when they agree ;
E. G. for the Greek text, and E. A. for the Armenian
translation.
At the end of this volume will be found a table of
the hieroglyphic names of all the Kings that I have
found to belong to particular Dynasties, from the First
to the Seventeenth inclusive; the Dynasties and Kings
being there arranged in their proper relative places,
according to the monuments, which seldom enable us
to determine the exact points of contemporaneousness
in two or more Dynasties; and the spaces allotted to
particular Kings being proportioned to the lengths of
their reigns in some particular and remarkable cases;
average length, deduced from the length of the Dynasty,
and the number of its Kings, being indicated in other
cases. Sir Gardner Wilkinson has most kindly offered
me the use of the wood-blocks from which the names
in the table above mentioned, as well as most of the
names of Kings which occur in this work, are printed.
The errours in Manetho's lists, and the manner in
which the monuments assist us in verifying or correct-
ing those lists, will be discussed in many places
throughout this portion of the present work. The
instances of corruption by copyists, to be noticed here-
after, plainly show us that we cannot rely upon the