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CONTEMPORANEOUSNESS OF
[Part II.
While writing this work, I have received from my
friend, the Reverend Mr. Lieder, one of the most im-
portant of all the evidences that I now possess of the
correctness of my scheme of the order of the Dynasties.
In a letter to me from Cairo, he has informed me that
he has found, by clearing out a remarkable tomb near
the Great Pyramid, of the time of Assa, the fifth Shep-
herd-King of the Fifteenth Dynasty, the names of
Unas and Assa together, in an inscription in that tomb;
remarking that they belonged to the same Dynasty,
one being the predecessor of the other, or were con-
temporary. After the receipt of the communication
above-mentioned, another letter brought me a copy of
the inscription in which the two Kings are mentioned
together, and of another containing the name of Assa ;
each drawn by Mrs. Lieder, on a large scale, and evi-
dently with the most scrupulous accuracy, with illus-
trative remarks by Mr. Lieder. The tomb, which is
that of a high functionary named Snemt-em-hat, as his
name most probably reads, is near the north-west angle
of the Great Pyramid. I give a copy of the inscrip-
tion containing the two names in Plate V.
This important inscription is divided into three parts:
—first, the record of the celebration of Panegyries,
which, not containing any date, excepting that of " the
beginning of the year," I do not give : secondly, two la-
teral inscriptions, each composed of the titles of Snemt-
em-hat, who is called "devoted to Assa," and "devoted
to Unas;" thus standing in the same relation to both
Kings. In the lines in which Unas and Assa are both
mentioned, Unas is called " Lord of Upper and Lower
Egypt," while both he and Assa receive no titles in the
other cases in which they are mentioned in the same
inscription. This shows plainly that Unas, the last
CONTEMPORANEOUSNESS OF
[Part II.
While writing this work, I have received from my
friend, the Reverend Mr. Lieder, one of the most im-
portant of all the evidences that I now possess of the
correctness of my scheme of the order of the Dynasties.
In a letter to me from Cairo, he has informed me that
he has found, by clearing out a remarkable tomb near
the Great Pyramid, of the time of Assa, the fifth Shep-
herd-King of the Fifteenth Dynasty, the names of
Unas and Assa together, in an inscription in that tomb;
remarking that they belonged to the same Dynasty,
one being the predecessor of the other, or were con-
temporary. After the receipt of the communication
above-mentioned, another letter brought me a copy of
the inscription in which the two Kings are mentioned
together, and of another containing the name of Assa ;
each drawn by Mrs. Lieder, on a large scale, and evi-
dently with the most scrupulous accuracy, with illus-
trative remarks by Mr. Lieder. The tomb, which is
that of a high functionary named Snemt-em-hat, as his
name most probably reads, is near the north-west angle
of the Great Pyramid. I give a copy of the inscrip-
tion containing the two names in Plate V.
This important inscription is divided into three parts:
—first, the record of the celebration of Panegyries,
which, not containing any date, excepting that of " the
beginning of the year," I do not give : secondly, two la-
teral inscriptions, each composed of the titles of Snemt-
em-hat, who is called "devoted to Assa," and "devoted
to Unas;" thus standing in the same relation to both
Kings. In the lines in which Unas and Assa are both
mentioned, Unas is called " Lord of Upper and Lower
Egypt," while both he and Assa receive no titles in the
other cases in which they are mentioned in the same
inscription. This shows plainly that Unas, the last