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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SECOND DYNASTY.

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and Elephantinites.—The name of " Sethenes" in the
Tablet of Abydos is partly erased, and is as follows:

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that of his successor, the " Chaires" of Manetho, is
Men-ka-ra.

In the reign of Nephercheres, (or Nufre-ka-ra,)

the seventh King of the Second Dynasty, we are
told that it was fabled that the Nile flowed mixed
with honey for the space of eleven days. Manetho,
if his very words on this subject are preserved, qua-
lifies this statement; merely giving it on the autho-
rity of tradition. The next King, Sesochris, (perhaps
Snufre-ka,) was said, we are told, to have been
a man of gigantic stature. According to Afri-
canus's version of Manetho's lists, the Thinite King-
dom lasted five hundred and fifty-five years; and ac-
cording to Eusebius's, five hundred and forty-nine; and
according to the former version, Cheneres (Ka-en-ra)