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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CONTEMPORARY KINGS.

[Part II.

told that he built the Labyrinth in the Arsinoite nome,
as a tomb for himself. The successor of Manetho's
Sesostris in the Tablet of Abydos is Amenemha III.,

whose prenomen reads " Ma-en-ra." He may be the
Moeris of the Greeks.

Among the hieroglyphic inscriptions of Wadee Ma-
gharah, we find one (a copy of which was given by Lord
Prudhoe, now the Duke of Northumberland, and
Colonel Felix, to Mr. Burton, for his " Excerpta Hiero-
glyphica"), which throws much light upon the history
of this period. This tablet * is divided into three
compartments. The first of these is dated in the third
year of Amenemha III., and does not seem to contain
any important information. The second compartment
commences with the date of the forty-first year of the
same King, and gives the following name (which reads

Seser-hotp-ret) and the titles of a King, who is pro-
bably of the Ninth Dynasty, but, perhaps, of the
Fourteenth. The third compartment contains the
name and titles of a foreign King, Snufre, whose name

/vVA\P /ww\

Excerpta Hieroglyphica, PI. XII.