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his declaring that he knew no use of, nor occasion for, Eratosthenes' catalogue of Theban kings." He found the fragment above mentioned; and seeing it differed from all other collections, he intended himself to differ from all others, who had written before him; for which reason, and probably for no other, he began his catalogue with it. He added to it the Pastor and Theban kings from Josephus, and completed it with taking as many names of kings from Africanus and other writers, as he thought he wanted; and having taken the liberty to give to the several reigns of these later kings, not the numbers of years assigned them by the writers from whom he took them; but such as might bring down the succession in a manner suitable to his own chronology; this was his attempt towards clearing the Egyptian history. The reader, if he examines, will after all find that Syncellus' catalogue is somewhat too long for the interval, to which he intended to adjust it: but the learned are apprised, that Syncellus' work is in many places inaccurate in this

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VIII. We are in the last place to consider, what our learned countryman Sir John Marsham has done upon this subject. And, 1. He considered Egypt as being divided into four concurrent kingdoms in the

a Vid. Syncell. p. 147.

• Sir John Marsham says very justly of Syncellus, Reges comminiscitur, annosque et successiones mutilat vel extendit prout ipsi visum est, ut imprudentiam hominis non possis non mirari, qui cum aliis rixatur, ipse cùm sit reprehen. sioni maximè obnoxius. Can. Chron. p. 4.

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most early ages; namely, into the kingdoms of Thebes, of This, of Memphis, and of Tanis, or lower Egypt. 2. He formed a canon or table, to give the reader in one view, the contemporary kings of each kingdom. And, 3. In the execution of his work in proper chapters, he endeavours to justify the position of the kings, according to the succession assigned to them in the respective columns of his canon. The following tables will give the reader a view of Sir John Marsham's succession of the Egyptian kings, from Menes, the first king over all Egypt, to the times of Sesac, who came against Jerusalem in the fifth year of Rehoboam.

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I. SIR JOHN MARSHAM'S TABLE OF KINGS OF EGYPT.

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1 Dinast. Memphis Mestraim 35 African Syn-Herodot. 1. 2. Syncell p. 91, cell. p. 54. c. 99.

III. Dy.Afric. 2 Curudes, 63

2 Athothes 592 Athothes 57 Syncell. p. 56.

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13 Rateses 25 Syncell.p.101.

48 14 Bicheres 22 19 Ramessomenes...15

15 Seber. 20 Thusima.

17 Cheneres cheres ......7 res.....31 30 16 Thamptis 921 Rames.

seos.....23 VI. Dyn. Afr. 22 Ramesse

menos...19

18 Nechero- 17 Othoes 23 Ramessephes.....28 18 Phius...53

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Ocaras... 1 Sum of the 593
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21 Achescus

22 Nitocris..6

Sum of the 675
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Tubaete 39

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20 Phiops 100 24 Ramesse

21 Mentesu.

Vaphres 29

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In this manner Sir John Marsham deduces the account of the ancient kings of Egypt, down to the time of the Pastors' irruption: the Pastors invaded Egypt in the reign of Timæus. Sir John Marsham supposes that Concharis was the king, whom Josephus calls Timæus ; and agreeably hereto Syncellus conceived that Silites or Salatis, who was the first Pastor king, had succeeded Concharis, his 25 king of lower Egypt.*. Nitocris is thought to have been the last of the crowned heads of Memphis; for we find in Africanus no name of any king of this kingdom after her; therefore here we are to fix the period or dissolution of it, and we find that the Pastors over-ran not only the lower Egypt; but took Memphis and possessed themselves of this kingdom also. Nitocris was queen not only of Memphis, but likewise of Thebes; for we find her name XXII. in Eratosthenes' Theban catalogue. Sir John Marsham observes, that her predecessor in both kingdoms reigned but one year, and the king before him in both kingdoms exactly a hundred." He judiciously concludes from hence, that Apappus Maximus, king

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* Θηβαίων η εβασίλευσεν Απαππος μεγιςος στ@, ως φασιν παρα ωραν μιαν ετη ρ εβασίλευσεν: Θηβαίων κα εβασίλευσεν Αχεσκος Οκαρας Eratosth. in Syncell. p. 104. Exтh Suvaolev Cασ1λεων Μεμφιτων. δ Φιων εξαετης αρξάμενος βασιλεύειν διεγένετο MEXPIS STWY p. 8. METEσoupis &Tos εy. African. in Syncell. p.58.

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