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CHAMBER OF KINGS. KARNAK. [ Plate IV.
Each name is placed over a sitting figure, to whom
Thothmes III is making offerings : they are undoubtedly his
predecessors, and all of them deceased, at the time these
were sculptured; but if his immediate ancestors, or no, if
Ethiopians,(l) if a Theban, or other dynasty, or at which
of the two to begin, I am at a loss to determine. Some few
of the names in No. 1 are found in the Abydus, and Theban
lists. No. 1 may contain those of the predecessors of the
16th dynasty, since the first in the lowest line is of Osirte-
sen I, but the two first in the next line are of his imme-
diate successors.
PTOLEMIES.
It was my wish to have given a list of the Ptolemies,
but as I have very few with me I do not think it worth
while inserting them. (2) It maybe as well to observe,
that the title of these kings follows, and is not introduced
within the ovals j that Ptolemy Alexander I (with his
(1) Several authors affirm that Ethiopian princes ruled in Egypt, at dif-
ferent times: Herodotus in particular mentions this fact; and Agatharcides
states that they conquered the country, and were said to have finished the
buildings called Memnoneia. On this point however I imagine he must hare
been misinformed.
(2) ride however my Materia Hieroglyphics Piatt IK
CHAMBER OF KINGS. KARNAK. [ Plate IV.
Each name is placed over a sitting figure, to whom
Thothmes III is making offerings : they are undoubtedly his
predecessors, and all of them deceased, at the time these
were sculptured; but if his immediate ancestors, or no, if
Ethiopians,(l) if a Theban, or other dynasty, or at which
of the two to begin, I am at a loss to determine. Some few
of the names in No. 1 are found in the Abydus, and Theban
lists. No. 1 may contain those of the predecessors of the
16th dynasty, since the first in the lowest line is of Osirte-
sen I, but the two first in the next line are of his imme-
diate successors.
PTOLEMIES.
It was my wish to have given a list of the Ptolemies,
but as I have very few with me I do not think it worth
while inserting them. (2) It maybe as well to observe,
that the title of these kings follows, and is not introduced
within the ovals j that Ptolemy Alexander I (with his
(1) Several authors affirm that Ethiopian princes ruled in Egypt, at dif-
ferent times: Herodotus in particular mentions this fact; and Agatharcides
states that they conquered the country, and were said to have finished the
buildings called Memnoneia. On this point however I imagine he must hare
been misinformed.
(2) ride however my Materia Hieroglyphics Piatt IK