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the first, which is wanting in the second line of the tablet
of Abydus. He is the earliest king, whose name is found
on monuments of any consequence, now existing in Egypt;
these consist of the obelisks of the Faioom, and Heliopolis,
a few blocks in some of the temples in upper Egypt, and
at Thebes itself. The name (1) M. N is found at the quar-
ries of Toora, and Mahsara (the Troici lapidis mom, of
Ptolemy, and Strabo) from which the blocks, used in what
is called the casing of the pyramids, were taken. The si-
milarity of the names Chebron, and Cephren might, at first,
lead us to pronounce this king the founder of the second
pyramid, but the dates, if given us correctly by history, do
not agree with the aera of this monarch. The next, or O,
P is of Amunoph I, whose name is found with that of
Thothmes 1.(2)
In the next, which I shall call Thothmes I, the name
given (3) by Manetho may be derived from the prenomen,
as also in that, which follows it. Thothmes III, (4) and
(1) ThenomcisAmes, whicb should be the Amosis of Manetho; Chebron
maybe taken from the prenomen, and these two be one and the same king;
for Amunoph follows in his list also.
(2) Vide Plate I. No. 12.
(3) 1 do not venture to doubt the authority of Manetho himself, but as
I before observed, we have not his original work.
(4) I cannot agree with Mr. Salt, That Thothmes is the oldest king,
whose name is found in Egypt; indeed he affirms " that there is not the trace
of any monument, remaining throughout Egypt, or Nubia, of earlier date ;"
and when we consider, that the Thothmes, to whom he alludes, is the third
who bore this name, the assertion is far from being correct.
For an instance of the distinction between the third, and fourth Thothmes,
I refer the reader to the Lateran Obelisk, where, if I am not mistaken, the
name of the former occurs in the centre, and the other in the lateral lines ;
the first, which is wanting in the second line of the tablet
of Abydus. He is the earliest king, whose name is found
on monuments of any consequence, now existing in Egypt;
these consist of the obelisks of the Faioom, and Heliopolis,
a few blocks in some of the temples in upper Egypt, and
at Thebes itself. The name (1) M. N is found at the quar-
ries of Toora, and Mahsara (the Troici lapidis mom, of
Ptolemy, and Strabo) from which the blocks, used in what
is called the casing of the pyramids, were taken. The si-
milarity of the names Chebron, and Cephren might, at first,
lead us to pronounce this king the founder of the second
pyramid, but the dates, if given us correctly by history, do
not agree with the aera of this monarch. The next, or O,
P is of Amunoph I, whose name is found with that of
Thothmes 1.(2)
In the next, which I shall call Thothmes I, the name
given (3) by Manetho may be derived from the prenomen,
as also in that, which follows it. Thothmes III, (4) and
(1) ThenomcisAmes, whicb should be the Amosis of Manetho; Chebron
maybe taken from the prenomen, and these two be one and the same king;
for Amunoph follows in his list also.
(2) Vide Plate I. No. 12.
(3) 1 do not venture to doubt the authority of Manetho himself, but as
I before observed, we have not his original work.
(4) I cannot agree with Mr. Salt, That Thothmes is the oldest king,
whose name is found in Egypt; indeed he affirms " that there is not the trace
of any monument, remaining throughout Egypt, or Nubia, of earlier date ;"
and when we consider, that the Thothmes, to whom he alludes, is the third
who bore this name, the assertion is far from being correct.
For an instance of the distinction between the third, and fourth Thothmes,
I refer the reader to the Lateran Obelisk, where, if I am not mistaken, the
name of the former occurs in the centre, and the other in the lateral lines ;