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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CHRONOLOGY OF

[Part II.

Seventeenth Dynasties, and the number of Kings of
which they consisted. I have made two transpositions
in this table; putting the Seventeenth Dynasty in
Eusebius's list opposite the Fifteenth in Africanus's;
and the Fifteenth in the former list opposite the
Seventeenth in the latter. This I have done because
the Fifteenth Dynasty in Africanus's list evidently cor-
responds to the Seventeenth in Eusebius's.

TABLE OF THE SHEPHERD-DYNASTIES.

AFEICANUS.

Fifteenth Dynasty.

Six Shepherd-Kings
who reigned 284 years.

Sixteenth Dynasty.

Thirty-two Shepherd-
Kings Avho reigned 518
years.

Seventeenth Dynasty.

Forty-three Thehan
Kings and forty-three
Shepherd - Kings who
reigned 151 years.

EUSEBIUS.

Seventeenth Dynasty.

Four Shepherd-Kings
who reigned 103 years.

Sixteenth Dynasty.

Five Theban Kings
who reigned 190 years.

Fifteenth Dynasty.

Diospolite Kings who
reigned 250 years.

JOSEPHUS.

Six Shepherd - Kings
who reigned 259 years,
10 months.

Before noticing the difficulties occasioned by the
extraordinary disagreements between the copyists, I
shall make some remarks on the chronology of the
period.

The date of the commencement of the First Tro-
pical Cycle, in the time of Amenemha II., shows that
the Twelfth Dynasty commenced in one of the years
B.C. 2084 to 2047, inclusive; and the Fifteenth Dy-
nasty must have commenced about the same time.
Josephus tells us, from Manetho, that the Shepherds
ruled over Egypt for five hundred and eleven years,
until the Kings of the Thebaid and of the rest of