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05T THE GENEALOGICAL CHARACTER
The -whole of the eighteenth dynasty were probably
included among the eighteen Ethiopians who had
reigned at a remote period in Egypt.* They appear
to have claimed the throne by right of descent from
the Ethiopian queen (31) of Amenof I. (she is treated
with extraordinary honours in the inscriptions,) rather
than from Amosis the first in Manetho's catalogue.
They frequently intermarried with the royal race of
Ethiopia, and some of them were by extraction more
than half Ethiopian. Most or all, too, of these
monarchs ruled in Ethiopia, where, judging from
extant inscriptions, their authority progressively ad-
vanced southwards. The eighteenth dynasty would
nearly make up the " eighteen " mentioned by Hero-
dotus. If any . others were alluded to, they were
probably those among their immediate predecessors
whose ovals show them to have been of the same
Ethiopian stock.f
In the sculptures at the Memnonium, figures of the
ancestors of Ramses the Great are introduced, borne
by priests in procession. Here the head of the
eighteenth dynasty is preceded by a king Menmaftep,
and he by Menes, the first king of Egypt; whilst in
the complete registers of kings, which formed as it
III.'s paternal oval indicates liis descent from Amun-neitgori the
Ethiopian. See plate iii. 11, and 1, a,
* Herod, ii. 100.
t These may be referred to in Manetho's twelfth " Diospolite "
Dynasty.
05T THE GENEALOGICAL CHARACTER
The -whole of the eighteenth dynasty were probably
included among the eighteen Ethiopians who had
reigned at a remote period in Egypt.* They appear
to have claimed the throne by right of descent from
the Ethiopian queen (31) of Amenof I. (she is treated
with extraordinary honours in the inscriptions,) rather
than from Amosis the first in Manetho's catalogue.
They frequently intermarried with the royal race of
Ethiopia, and some of them were by extraction more
than half Ethiopian. Most or all, too, of these
monarchs ruled in Ethiopia, where, judging from
extant inscriptions, their authority progressively ad-
vanced southwards. The eighteenth dynasty would
nearly make up the " eighteen " mentioned by Hero-
dotus. If any . others were alluded to, they were
probably those among their immediate predecessors
whose ovals show them to have been of the same
Ethiopian stock.f
In the sculptures at the Memnonium, figures of the
ancestors of Ramses the Great are introduced, borne
by priests in procession. Here the head of the
eighteenth dynasty is preceded by a king Menmaftep,
and he by Menes, the first king of Egypt; whilst in
the complete registers of kings, which formed as it
III.'s paternal oval indicates liis descent from Amun-neitgori the
Ethiopian. See plate iii. 11, and 1, a,
* Herod, ii. 100.
t These may be referred to in Manetho's twelfth " Diospolite "
Dynasty.