Torr, Cecil: Memphis and Mycenae: an examination of Egyptian chronology and its application to the early history of Greece (Cambridge, 1896)

THE CONNEXION OF EGYPT WITH GREECE.

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presentation to king Men-cheper-Ra Thothmes; and in two
of these groups the presents include a number of metal vases
of Mycenaean shapes and also several daggers. This king
came to the throne in 1229 at latesta. But the manufacture
of such articles may have flourished for centuries in the
districts whence these came, beginning long before his time
and continuing long after. And neither the Mycenasan vases
found in Greece, nor yet the Mycenaean daggers, need there-
fore be contemporary with those depicted in these frescos.

The people who are bringing the vases and the daggers, are
described in the inscriptions as the princes of the land of Keftu
and the isl =-l ' MngMHMB' of the land of

Retennu a:E. k\1f/y e^ version of

the hierogl = " the names

Keftu and |_ L and Svria >

and they < E J! _iscriptions of

e with Keftu
ids along the
e Phoenician
i the places

earlier dab E
or Phcenici E"r-
Phcenician -

cities, Tyr — „ L_ s

grouped wi =-T CO

distance frc E. -C

This pcE a (_) -o

in Egypt \\ = __ 1

and that, aE a O
both have t E~~

come in coi=" C 5

In the O
Hellenes is =-

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in inscriptit j
of Dyn. 6C

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acquainted — m «. a>

Haui-nebu

a See abovt z ^
b Gizeh Mu = Q^J

and plate 5, lin :
• Gizeh Mu I

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y at no great

in antiquities
it Phoenicia;
:enaeans may
i never have

tc, the name
ame is found
eta and Pepi
yptians were
. The name
.lthough this

is, plate 2, line 9

, line 74.
ilate 19, line 54.
177.