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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ernes of Manetho. Perhaps the Shepherd-invasion
happened during his reign, though I think it most pro-
bable that it took place in that of an earlier King.
There is an important tablet relating to this King on
the Kuseyr Road, a copy of which is given in Plate V.
of Mr. Burton's Excerpta. It commences thus : " The
second year, the fifteenth day of Paophi, [of the reign
of] the Horus, lord of Upper and Lower Egypt, lord
of Upper Egypt, lord of Lower Egypt, lord of Upper
and Lower Egypt, the gold of the gods, King of all
Egypt, Neb-tete-ra, the son of the sun, Munt-hotp,
living for ever." I have translated all these titles to
shew that a King who calls himself lord of all Egypt,
&c, was not necessarily sole sovereign, as I have
already had occasion to observe. After some more
titles, &c, we read, " The lord of all Egypt, Neb-
tete-ra, living for ever, like the sun, says, I will establish

his majesty, the illustrious, the chief,......chief

of the buildings, the magnanimous, [literally fullhearted]
King, Amenemha [I.], with soldiers, .... in Upper
Egypt." In the fourteenth line of the same tablet,
we find a mention of Munt-hotp's having appointed
a certain person, called the chief of the " foreigners,"
over, or chief of, Upper and Lower Egypt. What I
have translated "foreigners" is the group which I give
in Plate VII. No. 5, and which probably reads " Penu,"
or Phoenicians. From this record we ascertain that
Munt-hotp, at the time supreme King, made Amen-