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B.
The Canicular Cycle of 1400 Years must have been instituted
in Egypt not later than about 2800, and not earlier than
3300 B. C.
C.
Synopsis of the Epochs of 1505 and 1460 Years
D.
Traces of the Distinction between a Civil and Religious Year,
and of the Notation of the Precession of the Movable Year in
the Canicular Cycle.
I. The Want of, and the Possibility of making, such a Nota-
tion without Intercalary Days
II. Proof from the Accounts of the Movable Festivals
III. Express Testimony:
1. The Testimony of Vettius Valens as to the Double
Year
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2. The Testimony of Porphyry and a Scholiast
ib.
3. The Testimony of Horapollo
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4. The Passage in Strabo about the Intercalary Year
5. Explanation of the Passage in Herodotus about the
Sun rising twice in the West
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E.
The Apis Cycle of 25 Years, and its Connexion with the
Sothiac Cycle
Lepsius' Discovery of the Signification of the Phoenix Period,
that it is an Accommodation of the Period of 1505 Years to
the Period of 1460 Years or Sothiac Cycle, or a Rectification
of the Julian Period
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SECTION II.
APPLICATION OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SYNCHRONISMS TO EGYPTIAN
CHRONOLOGY AND HISTORY.
A.
The Renewal of the Sothiac Cycle under Menephthah, the Son
of the Great Ramesses, in the Year 1322
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The Appearances of the Phoenix from the Reign of Ptolemy
Philadelphus up to Rhampsinitus
Traces of the Chronological Use of the Canicular Cycle in the
Greek Traditions about the History of the Egyptians.
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I. The Date of the Exodus as laid down by Clemens of
Alexandria according to the Sothiac Cycle of 1322
II. Traces of the Use of the Two Sothiac Cycles for fixing
chronologically the Length of the Empire of Menes in
Herodotus
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The Testimony of Manetho's Historical Work in favour of the
Application of the Sothiac Cycle to History, and of the
Correctness of our Chronology.
I. Manetho divided his Historical Work according to the
Two Sothiac Cycles, not mythically, however, but
strictly chronologically
II. Manetho placed the Eleventh Dynasty in the Epochal
Year 2782 B. C.
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PART II.
THE
HISTORICAL SYNCHRONISMS, EGYPTIAN
BASIS: OR
HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE NEW EMPIRE FROM AMOS
TO SHESHONK (XVIII.-XXII. DYN.).
INTRODUCTION.
I. The Historical Monuments and the Historical Sections
II. Survey of the Reigns of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Dynasties
III. Survey of the Historical Sections during the Eighteenth
and Nineteenth Dynasties
SECTION I.
THE CLOSE OF THE WAR OF LIBERATION; OR, FROM THE FIRST
YEAR OF AMOSIS TO THE FIFTH OF TUTHMOSIS III. 86 YEARS.
The First Reign: Amosis (Aahmes Ra-neb-peh). - 25 Years
The Second Reign: Amenophis I. (Amenhept Raserka), the
Son of Aahmes and Nefru-ari. 13 Years
The Third Reign: Tuthmosis I. (Tetmes Ra-aa-kheper),
Brother-in-law of Amenōphis I. -21 Years
The Fourth Reign: Tuthmosis II. (Tetmes Ra-aa-en-kheper),
elder Son of Tuthmosis I. - 21 Years
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THE STATE OF PROSPERITY AFTER THe struggle FOR INDEPENDENCE,
FROM THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE SHEPHERDS OUT OF AVARIS,
IN THE FIFTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF TUTHMŌSIS III., DOWN TO
THE DEATH OF AMENŌPHIS III. - 114 YEARS.
The Fifth Reign: Tuthmōsis III. (Tetmes Ra-men-kheper),
younger Son of Tuthmosis I., Brother of Tuthmosis II., and
Brother and Brother-in-law of Ha.t-as.u (Ma-ka-ra). —26
48) Years.
I. Misphra-Tuthmosis is a Designation in the Lists signify-
ing that Misphra, the eldest of the Children of Tuthmō-
sis I., reigned a considerable Time conjointly with
Tuthmosis III., her younger Brother
II. The Reigns of the Two Sons of Tuthmosis I. (Tuthmōsis
II. and III.) lasted Forty-eight Years. Tuthmōsis III.
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counted his own Regnal Years from the Death of his Father, as he was entitled to do from the Beginning
III. The History of the Campaigns of Tuthmōsis III., from
his own account of them
IV. Works erected by Tuthmosis III.
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The Sixth Reign: Amenophis II. (Amenhept Ra-neteru), Son of Tuthmosis III.-9 Years. (Third Regnal Year.)
The Seventh Reign: Tuthmosis IV. (Tetmes Ra-men-khe-
peru), Son of Amenōphis II.—13 Years. (Seventh Monu-
mental Year.)
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The Eighth Reign: Amenōphis III. (Amenhept Ra-neb-ma),
Son of Tuthmosis IV. (Thirty-sixth Monumental Year.)
I. Amenōphis III. and his relation to the Memnon of the
Greeks and to the Exodus
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II. The Edifices erected by Amenōphis III. in Nubia and
Silsilis: the Amenopheum on the Western Side of
Thebes, and the Palace of Luxor on the Eastern Side
CONCLUSION.
Could the Exodus possibly have taken place during this
Period
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SECTION III.
THE DOWNFALL OF THE HOUSE OF THE TUTHMŌSES IN THE POLITICAL
AND RELIGIOUS SCHISMS AND CONFUSION.
The Ninth (last) Reign of the Eighteenth, and the First of the
Nineteenth Dynasty.-44 Years.
Introduction: Survey of the Dynastic Complications
Ninth Reign: The End of the Eighteenth Dynasty: Horus
(Herem Hebi Meri-amen Ra-ser-kheperu Setep en Ra), Son
of Amenōphis III., and his Works -
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Horus and the Collateral and Rival Sovereigns with him:
I. Horus and his Works
II. No great Religious Movement took place in the Reign
of Horus
III. The Tombs of the Kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty
IV. Conjectures as to the Internal History of this Period
SECTION IV.
THE RISE AND MERIDIAN OF THE HOUSE OF RAMESSES: RA-
MESSES I. AND THE
TWO
RAMESSES II. 85 YEARS.
GREAT CONQUERORS, SETHOS AND
The First Reign of the Nineteenth Dynasty: Ramesses I.
(Ramessu Ra-men Peh), Son of Athotis and Grandson of
Amenōphis III.
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The Second Reign of the Nineteenth Dynasty: Sethos I.
(Sethosis, Seti Meri-en-pteh Ra-men-ma), Son of Rames-
ses I.-9 Years.
I. Seti on the Monuments
I. Representation of Seti's Exploits in the great Hypo-
style at Karnak
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1. The Triumph over the Lutennu (or Retennu)
2. The Triumph over the Shasu, i. e. Shepherds
3. The Triumph over the Atsh in the Land of Amar
4. The Triumph over the Tahu, in the Land of the
Retennu
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5. The Triumph over the Khet, Kheta
II. The Tomb of Seti.-The Representation of the Four
Races of Men
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II. Sethos, the Father of Ramesses, in the Historical Tradi-
tion as restored
The Third Reign: Ramesses II. (Ramessu: with the addition
Meri-amn (Miamû), Ra-seser-ma: frequently with the addi-
tion Setep-en-ra), Son of Sethos I.
I. Sethos, Ramses, Menephthah: or the Elevation, Culmina-
tion, and Fall of the House of Ramesses