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prenomen which occurs in the upper part of the first
tablet which I have been noticing is that of the second
predecessor of Munt-hotp, Nantef III.; for (whether
we follow the copy of Mr. Burton or that of M. Prisse)
we do not know it to be the prenomen of any pre-
decessor of Amenemha I., nor of any Diospolite King,
nor is it the prenomen of the immediate predecessor of
Munt-hotp. I formerly held it to be most probably
a variation of the prenomen of Papa, of the Sixth
Dynasty; but I think that my opinion was not based
upon sufficiently satisfactory grounds ; especially since
I have found that M. Prisse gives it differently.

This is not an unfit place in which to notice a proof
of the partial contemporaneousness of the Ninth Dy-
nasty with the Eleventh and Twelfth, and with the
Fifteenth, deducible from the names of persons who
lived in the time of the Twelfth Dynasty. It was
customary among the ancient Egyptians to name some
of their children after the reigning King and other
Kings of his Dynasty; so that we find the names
Sesertesen and Amenemha very prevalent during the
time of the Twelfth Dynasty ; whereas we find those
names seldom applied to persons not born in the time
of Kings bearing them : for example, I have found
only one Amenemha after the time of the Kings of
that name. Now it is very remarkable that Nantef
and Snufre, the former the name of five of the first
six Kings of the Ninth Dynasty, the latter the pre-
nomen of the second Shepherd-King of the Fifteenth
Dynasty, are very commonly applied to individuals
who lived in the time of the Twelfth Dynasty; a fact
which, if we had no other evidence, would indicate
that the Ninth and Fifteenth Dynasties immediately
preceded in time, or were partly contemporaneous with,