Brief remarks on the chronology of the Egyptian dynasties: shewing the fallacy of the system laid down by Messrs. Champollion in two letters on the museum of Turin |
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19th dynasty 1st Lett 21st dynasty 2nd Lett accession of Sesostris according admit Africanus Ammenemes Ammenephthes Amosis antiquity Apion and Ptolemy assigned astronomical cycle authority basis calculations Censorinus Champollion Chro Clemens Alexandrinus commenced computation conf corresponded corrupt critics cycle of Manetho cynic cycle discrepancy Egyptian annalists Egyptian chronology Egyptian dynasties Egyptian empire Egyptian priest Eusebius Exodus extract French chronologers give held to say Herodotus Josephus Julian year 1322 lists of Manetho Mei-amoun Menophres Misraim old Chronicle Pagan passage of Syncellus Persian preference proved Ramesses reckoning reign of Sesostris remarkable Saviour says Manetho Scaliger Sesac Sethos shepherd kings six kings Sothiac cycle supposed cycle Syncel system of chronology Tatian terminating in 1322 Theon Theon of Alexandria Thuoris Timaus Trojan war Turin version of Manetho words of Manetho ἀπὸ τοῦ δυναστείας ἐπὶ τῆς ἔτει τοῦ ἱστορίων κυνικοῦ λεγομένου κύκλου παρὰ τῷ Μανεθῷ τῆς Αἰγύπτου τοῦ κυνικοῦ λεγομένου
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Page 14 - So when they had gotten those that governed us under their power, they afterwards burnt down our cities, and demolished the temples of the gods, and used all the inhabitants after a most barbarous manner ; nay, some they slew, and led their children and their wives into slavery.
Page 14 - Then the kings of the Thebaid and of the rest of Egypt rose in revolt against the shepherds, and a great war broke out, which was of long duration. Under a king named Misphragmouthosis, the shepherds, he [Manetho] says, were defeated, driven out of all the rest of Egypt, and confined in a place called Auaris, containing ten thousand arourae. The shepherds...