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TABLET OF ABYDOS.
[Part II.
The sixteenth name in this list is Nufre-ka-ra; and
Nephercheres is the fifteenth Thinite King, according
to Africanus's version of Manetho's list: his prede-
cessor, Men-ka-ra, is called Chaires in the same list.
The sixth King after Nufre-ka-ra in the Tablet is
Ka-en-ra, the Cheneres of Manetho, (in Africanus,) who
makes him the second successor of Nephercheres. He
is preceded in the Tablet by Snufre-ka, perhaps
the same as Sesochris, whom Manetho (in Africanus)
makes the predecessor of Cheneres. After Ka-en-ra,
we find in the Tablet the names of four other Kings,
evidently belonging to the same Dynasty. I conclude
that it continued to the commencement of the Twelfth
Dynasty, since there are only seven effaced rings in
which the names of the Kings of the Eleventh Dy-
nasty could have been inscribed, had that Dynasty pre-
ceded the Twelfth in the Tablet; and eight of its
Kings are found in the list of the Chamber of Kings.
Hence it appears that the Second Dynasty continued
until the commencement of the Shepherd-Kingdom
and Twelfth Dynasty. It is to be remarked that the
first uneffaced ring in the second line of the Tablet of
Abydos is that containing the prenomen of Ame-
nemha II. I reckon the last ring of the Second Dy-
nasty to be the third preceding this, since we cannot
suppose that Amenemha I. (the first colleague of Seser-
tesen I.) was omitted. Fourteen names of the Kings
of the Second Dynasty were preserved partly or wholly
in the Tablet of Abydos at the time that Sir Gardner
Wilkinson made his invaluable copy *; three of these
being partly erased ; the rest perfect. The recogni-
tion of names of Kings of the Second Dynasty in the
Tablet of Abydos, indicating that the first line of that
* Materia Hieroglyphica, Part II., PI. IX.
TABLET OF ABYDOS.
[Part II.
The sixteenth name in this list is Nufre-ka-ra; and
Nephercheres is the fifteenth Thinite King, according
to Africanus's version of Manetho's list: his prede-
cessor, Men-ka-ra, is called Chaires in the same list.
The sixth King after Nufre-ka-ra in the Tablet is
Ka-en-ra, the Cheneres of Manetho, (in Africanus,) who
makes him the second successor of Nephercheres. He
is preceded in the Tablet by Snufre-ka, perhaps
the same as Sesochris, whom Manetho (in Africanus)
makes the predecessor of Cheneres. After Ka-en-ra,
we find in the Tablet the names of four other Kings,
evidently belonging to the same Dynasty. I conclude
that it continued to the commencement of the Twelfth
Dynasty, since there are only seven effaced rings in
which the names of the Kings of the Eleventh Dy-
nasty could have been inscribed, had that Dynasty pre-
ceded the Twelfth in the Tablet; and eight of its
Kings are found in the list of the Chamber of Kings.
Hence it appears that the Second Dynasty continued
until the commencement of the Shepherd-Kingdom
and Twelfth Dynasty. It is to be remarked that the
first uneffaced ring in the second line of the Tablet of
Abydos is that containing the prenomen of Ame-
nemha II. I reckon the last ring of the Second Dy-
nasty to be the third preceding this, since we cannot
suppose that Amenemha I. (the first colleague of Seser-
tesen I.) was omitted. Fourteen names of the Kings
of the Second Dynasty were preserved partly or wholly
in the Tablet of Abydos at the time that Sir Gardner
Wilkinson made his invaluable copy *; three of these
being partly erased ; the rest perfect. The recogni-
tion of names of Kings of the Second Dynasty in the
Tablet of Abydos, indicating that the first line of that
* Materia Hieroglyphica, Part II., PI. IX.