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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MANETHO'S SESOSTRIS.

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me, have been again made at the Royal Observatory,
and the calculations there made have been verified by
Mr. Airy himself, the Astronomer Royal.

Sesertesen II. became the colleague of Amenemha

II. in the thirty-third year of the reign of the latter
King. Sesertesen III., Manetho's Sesostris, who was

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afterwards worshipped, apparently as a great lawgiver,
was probably for some time a co-regent of Sesertesen

II. , succeeding Amenemha II. In the reign of Se-
sertesen III., occurs that most important date, the
commencement of the Third Great Panegyrical Year,
and the First Phoenix Cycle, called the appearance of
the Phoenix of Sesostris, in the year B.C. 1986. I
have already had occasion, in the first Part of this
wrork, to give my reasons for concluding that Sesertesen

III. was Manetho's Sesostris. In the lists we find a
short account of the conquests of Sesostris, wdiich can
scarcely be doubted to be more applicable to Se-
sertesen I. than to Sesertesen III., and still more so
to Rameses II.

The successor of Sesostris is called, in the lists,
" Lachares," " Lamaris," or " Lampares " ; and w7e are

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