DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.55202#0169
THE SIXTEENTH DYNASTY 149
Our copies of Manetho are very confused at this point. Eusebius
and his Armenian copyist exaggerate the number of years the
Theban dynasty held Upper Egypt and they give it a wrong place
in their chronicle. Following them “the Fifteenth (sic) Dynasty con-
sisted of kings of Diospolis who reigned for 280 years.”18 Africanus
has it that “the Seventeenth Dynasty were Shepherd Kings again,
43 in number, and kings of Thebes or Diospolis, 43 in number. Total
of the reigns of the Shepherd kings and the Theban kings, 151
years.”19 Here we have to drop the numeral “4” from “43” to be
absolutely correct as to the number of the rulers in both Thebes and
Memphis, but it is hard to see how Africanus arrived at the number
of years. The three kings of each line, of course, we actually know by
name. Of the Shepherds they were again Khian, Assis, and Apopi.
In Thebes we have Senakhte-en-Ref TaA> the Elder, Seken-en-Rec
Tata the Brave, and Wadj-kheper-Ref Ka-mose. At least the second
of these kings was killed, possibly in battle, and there is reason to
think that the third died after only the briefest of reigns.20
Ka-mose was followed by Neb-pehti-Ref Afh-mose, who expelled
the Hyksos and was called the first Pharaoh of the Eighteenth
Dynasty. So great was the rejoicing of the Egyptians at the libera-
tion of the Nile Valley that ever afterward, so long as Egypt was
still free, the people classed together Menes, Neb-hepet-ReC Montu-
hotpe and Neb-pehti-Ref Arh-mose, the founders of the Old, the
Middle and the New Kingdoms.
18 Cory, Ancient Fragments, p. 113; Waddell, Manetho, p. 93.
19 Cory, ibid., p. 114; Waddell, ibid., p. 95.
20 Winlock, JEA, 1924, p. 243; Meyer, Geschicbte, 11, pp. 48, 608.
Our copies of Manetho are very confused at this point. Eusebius
and his Armenian copyist exaggerate the number of years the
Theban dynasty held Upper Egypt and they give it a wrong place
in their chronicle. Following them “the Fifteenth (sic) Dynasty con-
sisted of kings of Diospolis who reigned for 280 years.”18 Africanus
has it that “the Seventeenth Dynasty were Shepherd Kings again,
43 in number, and kings of Thebes or Diospolis, 43 in number. Total
of the reigns of the Shepherd kings and the Theban kings, 151
years.”19 Here we have to drop the numeral “4” from “43” to be
absolutely correct as to the number of the rulers in both Thebes and
Memphis, but it is hard to see how Africanus arrived at the number
of years. The three kings of each line, of course, we actually know by
name. Of the Shepherds they were again Khian, Assis, and Apopi.
In Thebes we have Senakhte-en-Ref TaA> the Elder, Seken-en-Rec
Tata the Brave, and Wadj-kheper-Ref Ka-mose. At least the second
of these kings was killed, possibly in battle, and there is reason to
think that the third died after only the briefest of reigns.20
Ka-mose was followed by Neb-pehti-Ref Afh-mose, who expelled
the Hyksos and was called the first Pharaoh of the Eighteenth
Dynasty. So great was the rejoicing of the Egyptians at the libera-
tion of the Nile Valley that ever afterward, so long as Egypt was
still free, the people classed together Menes, Neb-hepet-ReC Montu-
hotpe and Neb-pehti-Ref Arh-mose, the founders of the Old, the
Middle and the New Kingdoms.
18 Cory, Ancient Fragments, p. 113; Waddell, Manetho, p. 93.
19 Cory, ibid., p. 114; Waddell, ibid., p. 95.
20 Winlock, JEA, 1924, p. 243; Meyer, Geschicbte, 11, pp. 48, 608.