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 patriarch Abraham, but also from their being the
oldest monuments of their kind known to remain.

There is another remarkable record of this King's
reign, a list of conquered or tributary tribes or coun-
tries, the most ancient yet discovered, on a tablet found
by Dr. Ricci at Wadee Halfeh, in Nubia, near the
Second Cataracts. Rosellini gives a copy of it#; and
Champollion first described itt. It has not been satis-
factorily ascertained to what tribes or countries these
names apply. I have already mentioned that Amen-
emha I. was a colleague of Sesertesen I. for some
time. This was doubtless early in the reign of the
latter King.

In the forty-third year of Sesertesen I., his second
colleague, Amenemha II., began to reign, and reigned,

according to Manetho, thirty-eight years. There is a
small temple of the time of Amenemha II. and Seser-
tesen II. at Wadee Gasoos, near the Egyptian shore of
the Red Sea. (Wilkinson's "ModernEgypt and Thebes,"
ii. 385.) In the reign of Amenemha II., the first Tro-
pical Cycle commenced, on January the 7th, B.C. 2005.
This is the second date which I have found recorded
on the Egyptian monuments: the first so recorded
being the commencement of the second Great Panegy-
rical Year, B.C. 2352, in the time of the two Suphises.

* Monumenti Storici, PI. XXV., No. 4.
f Lettres, p. 124.