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Sect. IV.]
BY THE SHEPHERDS.
171
the name of Avaris is obtainable from the fact of
Manetho's saying that it was so called from some
ancient theological reference, and from his saying in
another place that it was a Typhonian city. It is
not difficult to ascertain the position of Avaris ap-
proximatively from Manetho's statement. The Bu-
bastite branch of the Nile is that commonly called the
Pelusiac. In the time of the Romans the Sethroite
nome was the most eastern of all the homes of Egypt,
situated between the Pelusiac branch and the desert,
having the Mediterranean Sea to the north, and the
Arabian nome to the south. In more ancient times,
the nomes were fewer, and consequently, in some cases
at least, of greater extent. After relating the building
and garrisoning of Avaris, the historian continues thus :
" Hither he came in harvest-time, (or summer,
Kara Oepeiav,) giving [his troops] allowances of corn
and pay, and exercising them diligently in the use of
arms, to terrify foreigners. And having reigned nine-
teen years, he died."
I have now quoted all that Manetho, as cited by
Josephus, tells us respecting Salatis. In the list of
the Dynasties given by Africanus and Eusebius there
is a notice of the Shepherd-invasion which somewhat
differs from the account which I have already exa-
mined. In the text of Africanus, we read, " The
Fifteenth Dynasty : of the Shepherds. They were six
foreign Phoenician Kings, who also took Memphis.
They also built a city in the Sethroite nome, whence
making an incursion, they subdued the Egyptians."*
* There is a misplacement in a transcript of Africanus, and in the
Greek version and Armenian translation of Eusebius; the words
"The first of whom," &c, instead of following what I have trans-
lated above, being placed between the sentence which there ends-
BY THE SHEPHERDS.
171
the name of Avaris is obtainable from the fact of
Manetho's saying that it was so called from some
ancient theological reference, and from his saying in
another place that it was a Typhonian city. It is
not difficult to ascertain the position of Avaris ap-
proximatively from Manetho's statement. The Bu-
bastite branch of the Nile is that commonly called the
Pelusiac. In the time of the Romans the Sethroite
nome was the most eastern of all the homes of Egypt,
situated between the Pelusiac branch and the desert,
having the Mediterranean Sea to the north, and the
Arabian nome to the south. In more ancient times,
the nomes were fewer, and consequently, in some cases
at least, of greater extent. After relating the building
and garrisoning of Avaris, the historian continues thus :
" Hither he came in harvest-time, (or summer,
Kara Oepeiav,) giving [his troops] allowances of corn
and pay, and exercising them diligently in the use of
arms, to terrify foreigners. And having reigned nine-
teen years, he died."
I have now quoted all that Manetho, as cited by
Josephus, tells us respecting Salatis. In the list of
the Dynasties given by Africanus and Eusebius there
is a notice of the Shepherd-invasion which somewhat
differs from the account which I have already exa-
mined. In the text of Africanus, we read, " The
Fifteenth Dynasty : of the Shepherds. They were six
foreign Phoenician Kings, who also took Memphis.
They also built a city in the Sethroite nome, whence
making an incursion, they subdued the Egyptians."*
* There is a misplacement in a transcript of Africanus, and in the
Greek version and Armenian translation of Eusebius; the words
"The first of whom," &c, instead of following what I have trans-
lated above, being placed between the sentence which there ends-