Wilkinson, John Gardner: Extracts from several hieroglyphical subjects, found at Thebes and other parts of Egypt: with remarks on the same ([La Valletta], Malta, 1830)

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figures are represented, having before them names (as I
suppose) of the predecessors of the king, who appears in
the sculptures below, and who bears the name of the last
of these. This circumstance, together with that of the
names coming in the same order, as in the tablet of Abydus,
leaves no doubt in my mind, of both these bting series of
king's names, placed in the order of their succession, and
consequently predecessors of the last therein mentioned,
who was the founder of the building, or of that part of it,
in which they were sculptured; but what is still more re-
markable, part of the same series of names (1) occurs again,
on another part of this wall, over the same battle scene,
and before similar small figures.

From the singular circumstance, of these two lists
agreeing so closely with that of Abydus, I was induced to
draw out the list of kings, contained in Plate II, (2) guided
at the same time, by observations made in the temples, of
the evident priority of each, which I was enabled to ascer-
tain, either by the name of one king cut over that of a
predecessor, or from the comparative antiquity of the parts
of a building containing two, or more of them. The re-
sult was all I could desire, nor have I once found the name
of any of these kings differ in priority, from the series con-
tained in the three lists. These remarks tended to con-
firm the idea, of the names (3) at Medeenet Hdboo being

(1) No. 3 Plate I.

(2) For Piatt II, vide the Plata I, II, III, of the Materia Hicrogly-
phiea.

(3] V. Piatt I. Noi. 4. 5.6.