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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the Twelfth; thus affording another independent ar-
gument for the scheme of contemporaneousness which
I have adopted. But what is still more remarkable is
this; that we find a similar correspondence in the
nomens and prenomens of Kings. Nufre-ka-ra and its
variations are found as nomens in the Second, and
Fifth Dynasties, and, as prenomens in the Eleventh,
and Fifteenth Dynasties *. We find two Menchereses,
Men-ka-ra of the Second Dynasty, and Men-kau-ra of
the Fourth, nearly, if not quite, contemporaries. In
like manner, we find two Papas, one in the Second
Dynasty, and the other in the Sixth, in like manner,
nearly, if not quite, contemporaries. On the other
hand, we find scarcely any instances of Kings at dis-
tant intervals bearing the same or similar nomens or
prenomens. This inquiry might be carried to a still
further length ; but I think that I have said enough
to satisfy any candid mind that the names of men, as
well as of Kings, furnish remarkable arguments for
the scheme of contemporaneousness explained in this
work.

We know some other particulars of the history of
the time of Munt-hotp; but these will be more pro-
perly discussed in the examination of that of the
Eleventh Dynasty. The Shepherd-invasion, the great
event of this part of the ancient Egyptian history, took
place in the reign of this King or in that of his pre-
decessor. Of the last of the Heracleopolites men-

* On referring to the table of the hieroglyphic names of the
Kings of the first Seventeen Dynasties, it will be seen that part of
the Second Dynasty was contemporary with part of the Fifth,
and terminated about the time of the commencement of the Fif-
teenth, being also partly contemporary with the Eleventh Dynasty.