rius Nothus, in about the io. year of Darius' reign;" the interval will be, as Eusebius reckons it, 111 years. 13. As to the XXVIII. XXIX. xxx. dynasties, if we allow for little mistakes, which may easily happen in transcribing numbers; and consider that Tanite Mendesian and Sebennite may be synonymous terms; Mendes and Sebenneh having been cities of the land of Zoan or Tanis, these dynasties in the epitome, in Africanus, and in Eusebius, may be conceived to have been the same. Of this sort the reader, if he examines it, will find the work of Eusebius, as far as it relates to the Egyptian dynasties. Manetho had left only 15 dy. nasties of mortal kings; for his other 15 treated of gods, demi-gods and heroes of a superior race. Upon this account Eusebius, in composing his chronicon, rejected fifteen of Africanus' dynasties, reputing them prior to the times, of which he could hope to find any true history; and having selected the fifteen dynasties of Africanus, from the XVI to the xxx, and new modelled them, by comparing them with the like dynasties added in the epitome in the old Chronographeon; sometimes giving his dynasties titles and numbers from the epitome, sometimes from Africanus, and now and then varying from both, if his purpose required it; and having thus formed such a series of Egyptian reigns as would fill up his interval between the birth of Abraham and the flight of Nectanebus, he gave himself no further trouble; though one would See Prideaux' Connection, part i. b. 6. Strabo Geograph. Vid. quæ sup. de Manethone. think, he must have seen, that he might rather be said to have made a way to give the dynasties some appearance of an agreement with his chronology, than have given any true and just account of them.. с VII. Syncellus is the next writer to whom we are to go for the Egyptian antiquities. He composed his Chronographia about the year of our LORD 800; and transcribed into it, what remains he could find of the more ancient writers, and some extracts from others, who had composed before him a work of like nature with what he attempted. Accordingly we find in him the contents of the old Chronographeon, of Manetho's Dynasties, of Africanus', and of Eusebius',' agreeably to what he judged to be the scheme and purport of each. In many places we have his strictures and observations, as he goes along, upon the matters offered by them; and has also given us Eratosthenes' catalogue of the Thebaan kings. He remarks, that the dynasty writers must have supposed that their xxvII. dynasty, which they call Persians, had begun when Cambyses king of Persia conquered Egypt." Amasis was king of Egypt at that time; and to this Amasis he brings down a list of eighty-six kings of Egypt, from Menes their first king, setting against each king's name the years of his reign as follows: T. Mestraim or Menes reigned S5 years. T. Curudes 63. III. اكير IV. ΙΧ. Aristarchus 34. Spanius 36. v. and VI. two kings whose names are lost, their reigns amounted to 12 years. VII Serapis 23. VIII. Sejouchosis 49. I. Amenemes 29.*. Amasis 2. I. Achesepthres 13. XII. Achoreus 9. XIII. Armiyses 4. XIV. Chamois 12. Amesises 65. 14. Use 50. XVIII. Ramesses 29. XIX. Ramessomenes 15. xx. Thusimares 31. XXI. Ramesse-seos 23. XXII. Ramesse-menos 19. XXIII. Ramesse-Tubaété 39." XXIV. Ramesse-Vaphris 29. XV. lites 19.P XXVII. XVI. XVII. XXVI. Si XXV Concharis 5.° XXIX. Apophis 61.F XXX. Sethos 50. xxxi. Certus, according to Josephus 29 years, according to Manethỏ XXXIII. Amosis, who was also called Tethmosis, 22.t XXXV, XXXVII. Misphrag XXXVIII. Misphres 23. XXXIX. Tuthmosis $9. XL. Amenophtis 34. XLI. Horus 48. XLII. Achencheres 25. Athoris 29. XLIII. XLIV. Chencheres 26. XLV. Acheres 8 or 30. XLVI. Armæus, or Danaus, 9.* XLVII. Rameses, who was also called Ægyptus, 68. * Syncell. p. 91. Vid. Euseb. Chron. p. 17. XLVII. Amenophis 8. Thuoris 17.. Nechepsus XLIX. 19. Psammuthis 13. LI. LII. ,, 4. LIII. 1 Cer tus 20. LIV: Rhampsis 45. LY. Amenses, or Amenemes, 26. LVI. Ochyras 14. LVII. Amedes 27. LVIII. Thuoris 50. LIX. Athothis 28. LX. Cencenes 39. LXI. Venephes 42.• Sussachim 34. d LXII. nus 25. LXIV. Ammenophes 9. LXVI. LXIII. Psue LXV. Nephecheres 6. Petubastes 44. LXIX. Osorthrón 9. Lxx. Psammus 10., LXXI. Concharis 21. LXXII. Osorthron 15. LXXIII, Tacelophes 13. LXXIV. Bocchoris 44. chon 12.h LXXV. Sabacon Ethiops 12. LXXVI. Sebe LXXVII. Taracas 20, LXXVIII. Amaes 38, LXXIX. Stephinates 27. LXXX. Nachepsus 13.1 LXXXI. Nechaab 8. LXXXII. Psammitichus 14. chaab the second, called Pharaoh, 9. muthis, or Psammitichus the second, 17. LXXXV. Va phres 34. LXXXVI. Amasis 50.* It is queried by the learned, whence Syncellus collected this series of Egyptian kings. Scaliger supposed that he had found it in the Chronicon of Eusebius; and accordingly in his attempt to retrieve that work, he has inserted these kings amongst others of Eusebius' collections. But in this point Scaliger must have been mistaken; we have no reason to imagine that this catalogue had ever been in Eusebius. It seems rather to have been, a great part of it, Syncellus' own composition, who imagined he could in this manner deduce the Egyptian kings. If the reader will strictly examine, he will find that the kings from the xlix to the xxxvi, might be taken from Africanus' xix, xxi, xxii, xxiii, xxiv, xxv, and xxvi dynasties; only Syn. cellus has now and then added or repeated a name of a king or two, and given new numbers to all their reigns, such probably as suited the scheme he had formed for the Egyptian chronology. From the xxxiii king to the xlviii, we have a catalogue of Theban kings formed from considering and comparing Josephus' list with Africanus and Eusebius' xviii dynasty. The kings from xxvi to the xxxii are taken from Josephus, Africanus, and Eusebius' account of the Pastor kings. From Mestraim or Menes the king, to Concharis the X, Syncellus does indeed give a series of reigns, which we do not now meet with in any writer before him. Perhaps, as Africanus mistook, and gave us a scries of Thinite kings in his first and second dynasties, instead of Manetho's Tanite kings; so here Syncellus from some ancient quotations or remains, has happened upon the succession of Tanite kings, which might begin Manetho's accounts of the mortal kings; though, I dare say, he had no true notion of the nature of it. For Syncellus had certainly formed no right judgment of the Egyptian history; as appears evidently from See the notes in page 144. |