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Sect. IV.]

SESERTESEN I.

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I have already mentioned that Munt-hotp, of the
Ninth Dynasty, Amenemha I., of the Eleventh, and a
chief of the Shepherds, were contemporary. From
this it might be supposed that the first King of the
Fifteenth Dynasty began to reign before the com-
mencement of the Twelfth Dynasty ; but, in the first
place, it must be remembered that Amenemha I. was,
for part of his reign, a co-regent of Sesertesen I., the
first King of the latter Dynasty; and, in the second
place, that the Shepherd-chief mentioned above may
not have been a Shepherd-king. I can now notice the
history of Manetho's Twelfth Dynasty.

Sesertesen I., the first King of the Twelfth Dy-

nasty, was one of the most powerful sovereigns of the
period that preceded the Eighteenth Dynasty, and
there are many records still preserved among the monu-
ments of Egypt which show the extent of his power.
The two most famous of the Sesertesens were the First
and Third ; the former of whom may be called Sesos-
tris the conqueror; the latter, Sesostris the lawgiver:
the latter is Manetho's Sesostris, and was worshipped
by some later Kings, being esteemed far before the
conqueror, though he may also have signalized himself
by military exploits. Two obelisks, that of Heliopolis,
near Cairo, and that of Bigeeg, in the province called
the Feiyoom, are of the time of Sesertesen I. They
possess great interest, not only from their antiquity,
being about coeval, in my opinion, with the time of