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Sect, II.]
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accuracy of the numbers in Manetho's Dynasties as
they now stand, and that we must therefore correct
that historian's lists as far as possible from the dates
and other records on the monuments. I must also
distinctly state, that I place no reliance upon Manetho
in any case in which he is not in some degree confirmed
by the monuments or other trustworthy ancient autho-
rity. The corruption of his text, by copyists or epi-
tomizers, has probably been partly intentional and
partly unintentional; but I suppose it to have been in
a great measure effected before the times of Josephus,
Theophilus of Antioch, Africanus, and Eusebius; whose
quotations and abstracts of Manetho have still further
suffered by the carelessness of later copyists.
There are several other lists of Egyptian Kings,
preserved on the monuments and in papyri: on the
former, in hieroglyphic characters ; in the latter, in
hieratic.
The chief of these lists are the List of the Chamber
of Kings, and that called the Tablet of Abydos. The
former, which contained sixty-one royal names, belong-
ing to the Sixth, Ninth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth,
and Fifteenth, Dynasties, and which other writers have
been utterly unable to explain, most remarkably con-
firms the arrangement of the Dynasties which I have
adopted. It is a monument of the reign of Thothmes
III., the fifth King of the Eighteenth Dynasty, by
whose order it was sculptured, in a chamber of the
great temple of the metropolis of that time. The
latter list (that of Abydos) contained fifty-two names
(two of which are of one King) of Thinite and Diospo-
lite Kings, as will soon be shown. In both lists, many
names are erased. There are also many other shorter
lists on the monuments, containing from two to four-
MONUMENTAL LISTS.
01
accuracy of the numbers in Manetho's Dynasties as
they now stand, and that we must therefore correct
that historian's lists as far as possible from the dates
and other records on the monuments. I must also
distinctly state, that I place no reliance upon Manetho
in any case in which he is not in some degree confirmed
by the monuments or other trustworthy ancient autho-
rity. The corruption of his text, by copyists or epi-
tomizers, has probably been partly intentional and
partly unintentional; but I suppose it to have been in
a great measure effected before the times of Josephus,
Theophilus of Antioch, Africanus, and Eusebius; whose
quotations and abstracts of Manetho have still further
suffered by the carelessness of later copyists.
There are several other lists of Egyptian Kings,
preserved on the monuments and in papyri: on the
former, in hieroglyphic characters ; in the latter, in
hieratic.
The chief of these lists are the List of the Chamber
of Kings, and that called the Tablet of Abydos. The
former, which contained sixty-one royal names, belong-
ing to the Sixth, Ninth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth,
and Fifteenth, Dynasties, and which other writers have
been utterly unable to explain, most remarkably con-
firms the arrangement of the Dynasties which I have
adopted. It is a monument of the reign of Thothmes
III., the fifth King of the Eighteenth Dynasty, by
whose order it was sculptured, in a chamber of the
great temple of the metropolis of that time. The
latter list (that of Abydos) contained fifty-two names
(two of which are of one King) of Thinite and Diospo-
lite Kings, as will soon be shown. In both lists, many
names are erased. There are also many other shorter
lists on the monuments, containing from two to four-