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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which, in fact, it made no material change) a privilege,
which is nottjfound to have been usurped, when that king
has had an opportunity of placing his own name, in the
parts of the building, left unsculptured by his predecessor,
or not erected by him. Thus we find the nomen of Thoth-
mes IV occurring with the prenomen of Amunoph II; from
his having introduced his nomen at a later period, over the
original sculptures, and not thinking worth while (8) to
change the prenomen also; for the same reason, we see
the nomen of a Ptolemy, with the prenomen of a Pharaoh.

4. That these prenomens, or titles being sometimes
mentioned together with the nomens, have led to that dis-
agreement, which exists amongst ancient anthers, in the
names of the kings; they having confcnmded the preno-
mens with the nomens, or mistaken the one for the other.
If this point be admitted, we easily account for the list
before us (9)- (deduced from those of Abydus and Thebes)
not agreeing in all the names, with those of Manetho, and
other writers, who may have, in some instances, inserted
the title, or prenomen, instead of the phonetic nomen of
the king; independent of the errors of the copyists, who
in quoting the work of the priest of Sebennytus, may have
omitted one of the two; for it does appear in a few instan-
ces, that Manetho has introduced both the nomen and
prenomen.

5. The prenomens were often varied, by the addition
of other titles, but not by any omission of the original cha-

(8) We cannot reproach the king, for this aeglect; the fault no doubt
rests with the sculptors.

(9) In Plate II.