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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NANTEF II., III., AND IV.

[Part II.

I have found the nomen of Nantef III. written with
the former of these variations.

The nomen, prenomen, and square title, of Nantef
II., surnamed " the Great," have been found in hiero-
glyphics. There is satisfactory evidence, which is

known to Sir Gardner Wilkinson and Mr. Birch, that
this King, as well as Nantef IV., was anterior to the
Twelfth Dynasty, and that he was succeeded by a
brother named Nantef. This enables us to supply the
destroyed nomen, No. 16, between Nantef I. and
Nantef III., in the list of the Chamber of Kings,
and to decide that the partly-effaced nomen, No. 18, is
that of Nantef IV.

The nomen of Nantef III. is the same as that of
Nantef I., which I have just given : his prenomen has
not been found. We know nothing of the events of
his reign, excepting such events as belong to the his-
tory of other Dynasties, and that of Egypt generally,
which probably fell in that period.

Respecting Nantef IV., we know as little as we do of
his predecessor. His prenomen and nomen have been
found, and I here insert them. He has a title which I

cannot certainly interpret, in his nomen.