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CONTEMPORARY DYNASTIES.
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zontal lines, and the third is in perpendicular : a single
line containing a King's name and titles in each list.
Now from these three records, that is, from the triple
monumental record in the grottoes of Chenoboscion,
which is of the time of Salatis, and from the Chamber
of Kings, also a monumental record, and a national
one, of the time of Thothmes III., sculptured in the
great temple of Thebes, the metropolis of that time,
and from the Royal Turin Papyrus, which, though
much injured, is most valuable as the fullest list which
has been preserved among the papyri, and in hieratic
characters,—from these three remarkable records, we
learn that the Fifteenth Dynasty succeeded the Sixth *.
From this fact, it is obvious that the intermediate
kingdoms in Manetho's list, and the kingdoms to which
the Sixth and Fifteenth Dynasties belong, were con-
temporary ; and therefore the Memphites were con-
temporary with the Heracleopolites, Diospolites, Xoites,
and Shepherds ; and thus five of the seven columns of
the table of contemporary Dynasties are proved:
analogy would suffice for proof of the rest; but it is
worthy of remark, that the Elephantinite Dynasty con-
tained in one of these two other columns is proved by the
monuments to have been partly contemporary with the
Fourth and partly with the Fifteenth; and the Kings of
the remaining column, the Thinites, are likewise proved
to have been contemporary by the Era of the commence-
ment of the Egyptian kingdom, independently of several
arguments, derived from the monuments, which would
* Perhaps the seventy days' reign of the seventy Kings called
the Seventh Dynasty intervened between the Sixth and Fifteenth
Dynasties, though it more probably intervened between the Fif-
teenth and Eighth ; so that it must always be understood, when I
speak of the Fifteenth Dynasty as having succeeded the Sixth, that
the Seventh Dynasty may have intervened between them.
CONTEMPORARY DYNASTIES.
[Part II.
zontal lines, and the third is in perpendicular : a single
line containing a King's name and titles in each list.
Now from these three records, that is, from the triple
monumental record in the grottoes of Chenoboscion,
which is of the time of Salatis, and from the Chamber
of Kings, also a monumental record, and a national
one, of the time of Thothmes III., sculptured in the
great temple of Thebes, the metropolis of that time,
and from the Royal Turin Papyrus, which, though
much injured, is most valuable as the fullest list which
has been preserved among the papyri, and in hieratic
characters,—from these three remarkable records, we
learn that the Fifteenth Dynasty succeeded the Sixth *.
From this fact, it is obvious that the intermediate
kingdoms in Manetho's list, and the kingdoms to which
the Sixth and Fifteenth Dynasties belong, were con-
temporary ; and therefore the Memphites were con-
temporary with the Heracleopolites, Diospolites, Xoites,
and Shepherds ; and thus five of the seven columns of
the table of contemporary Dynasties are proved:
analogy would suffice for proof of the rest; but it is
worthy of remark, that the Elephantinite Dynasty con-
tained in one of these two other columns is proved by the
monuments to have been partly contemporary with the
Fourth and partly with the Fifteenth; and the Kings of
the remaining column, the Thinites, are likewise proved
to have been contemporary by the Era of the commence-
ment of the Egyptian kingdom, independently of several
arguments, derived from the monuments, which would
* Perhaps the seventy days' reign of the seventy Kings called
the Seventh Dynasty intervened between the Sixth and Fifteenth
Dynasties, though it more probably intervened between the Fif-
teenth and Eighth ; so that it must always be understood, when I
speak of the Fifteenth Dynasty as having succeeded the Sixth, that
the Seventh Dynasty may have intervened between them.