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 SHEPHERD-DYNASTIES.

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is differently written from the synonymous pre-
nomen of Beon. This part is dated in the forty-
second year of the reign of Amenemha III., about
which time it is probable that the Twelfth Dynasty
concluded. Snufre is called the ruler of several foreign
lands. I cannot doubt that this Snufre was a King of
the Sixteenth Dynasty. This important tablet, there-
fore, plainly points oat the contemporaneousness, in
part, of three Dynasties, the Twelfth, the Sixteenth,
and another Dynasty, which is either the Ninth or the
Fourteenth.

I have already mentioned my opinion that the King
whose prenomen reads " Ma-tu-ra"1 and Ra-sebak-nufre2

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wTere probably co-regents of Amenemha III. I now
return to the consideration of the history of the Shep-
herds in Egypt.

The whole duration of the Shepherd-Dynasties can-
not easily be determined, and the variations between
Africanus and Eusebius and Josephus make it impos-
sible to decide what Manetho wrote on this subject
This will appear from the following table, which con-
tains what Africanus and Eusebius and Josephus say
respecting the length of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and

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