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THE CONNEXION OF EGYPT WITH GREECE.
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between Keftu and the islands in a list of those of king
Men-cheper-Ra Thothmes". And thus, supposing that the
names of Thii's parents mark her as a foreigner, the proba-
bilities are that she came from the same region with those
foreigners who brought the daggers and vases of Mycenaean
types as offerings to this Thothmes. In that case the things
with Thii's cartouches and her husband's may have reached
the Mycenaean sites in Greece by transit through this region :
the inference being that they did not find their way there
because they named the reigning king and queen, but because
they named a king and queen in whom the people of that
region took a patriotic interest.
Upon the whole, the evidence that points to intercourse,
direct or indirect, between Greece and Egypt in the My-
cenaean age, points to a period that began in 1271 at latestb
and ended in 850 or thereabouts0. This evidence, however,
is all of very little weight; and there is evidence that tends
to contradict it. For example, the Greek coins and gems of
about 700 to 600 resemble the Mycenaean gems so closely,
that any judge of art would be prepared to place the My-
cenaean age immediately before 700. But whatever weight
be given to such evidence as this, there certainly is nothing
to justify the confident assertion that the Mycenaean age in
Greece was concurrent with Dyn. 18 in Egypt, and that this
Dynasty began in 1700.
* Gizeh Museum. Mariette, Kamak, plate ir, lines 16—18.
b See above, page 66. c See above, page 63.
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between Keftu and the islands in a list of those of king
Men-cheper-Ra Thothmes". And thus, supposing that the
names of Thii's parents mark her as a foreigner, the proba-
bilities are that she came from the same region with those
foreigners who brought the daggers and vases of Mycenaean
types as offerings to this Thothmes. In that case the things
with Thii's cartouches and her husband's may have reached
the Mycenaean sites in Greece by transit through this region :
the inference being that they did not find their way there
because they named the reigning king and queen, but because
they named a king and queen in whom the people of that
region took a patriotic interest.
Upon the whole, the evidence that points to intercourse,
direct or indirect, between Greece and Egypt in the My-
cenaean age, points to a period that began in 1271 at latestb
and ended in 850 or thereabouts0. This evidence, however,
is all of very little weight; and there is evidence that tends
to contradict it. For example, the Greek coins and gems of
about 700 to 600 resemble the Mycenaean gems so closely,
that any judge of art would be prepared to place the My-
cenaean age immediately before 700. But whatever weight
be given to such evidence as this, there certainly is nothing
to justify the confident assertion that the Mycenaean age in
Greece was concurrent with Dyn. 18 in Egypt, and that this
Dynasty began in 1700.
* Gizeh Museum. Mariette, Kamak, plate ir, lines 16—18.
b See above, page 66. c See above, page 63.