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 ELEVENTH DYNASTY.

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than the List of the Chamber of Kings. This sug-
gests, (as, I believe, Dr. Hincks was the first to re-
mark,) that several of the Kings of the Eleventh
Dynasty were usurpers, and that Amenemha I. was
probably at least twice deposed, and afterwards restored
to the throne. Part of this King's prenomen, or a
similar name, occurs before the place of the first
King of Manetho's Twelfth Dynasty, in another part
of the same list. The monuments shew that Amen-
emha I. was the co-regent of Sesertesen I., the first
King of the Twelfth Dynasty, for part of his reign;
and this, added to what Manetho says, indicates his
second restoration. The sixteen years' reign of Amen-
emha I., mentioned by Manetho, probably refers to
the time during which that King reigned after the
commencement of the Twelfth Dynasty. Since the
portion of the Eleventh Dynasty which I have men-
tioned above, in the Royal Turin Papyrus, is only in a
fragment, and since another fragment apparently con-
tains the prenomens Nos. 3 and 5 of the list of the
Chamber of Kings, with the omission of No. 4, but
both partly erased, it appears that Manetho is right
in assigning sixteen Kings to the Dynasty, exclusive of
Amenemha I. It is not so easy to form a probable
opinion as to the duration of the Dynasty; for forty-
three years seems, at first sight, far too short a sum;
and that it is really so is proved by our having the
date of the forty-sixth year of the King whose pre-
nomen reads Neb-tu-ra*. Perhaps it commenced
shortly after the Ninth Dynasty. The only remarkable
King of this Dynasty was Amenemha I., the Ammen-

* Champollion's Deux Lettres au Due de Blacas, PI. XV.

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