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bear two names. From this tablet, therefore, we can
only conclude that Snufre Ankhee is either Beon him-
self, or a person born in his reign. If the former be
the case, it is easily explained by the suggestion that
the tablet was sculptured at Abydos or some other
place in the Theban Kingdom. In either case, the
tablet plainly shews that the Fifteenth Dynasty com-
menced about the same time as the Twelfth.

The third King of the Fifteenth Dynasty, Apachnas,
reigned sixty-one years, according to Africanus's tran-
script of Manetho's lists. In the list of the Chamber
of Kings, we find his prenomen, " Shura;" and in the
Royal Turin Papyrus, his nomen, " Ab . . . ." In

the long inscription at Benee-Hasan, a portion of
which I have before quoted, (pp. 18, 19,) we find, in
the 138th and 139th lines*, a mention of a person
called " The chief of the Fields which are of the
foreigners." This is a most important corroboration
of the evidence which I have adduced to shew that
the Shepherds were already in Egypt in the time of
Sesertesen II. It appears to me, that what is here
called " the Fields," is that part of Lower Egypt
called by the Greeks 'EXeap^la, ra 'Ex?;, and BovKo\la;
and by the Copts, NiMctycyouT, "the Fields," or
" Plains."

The nomen of Iannas, (according to Josephus,) or

* Burton's Excerpta, PL XXXIV.