Arts, antiquities, and chronology of ancient Egypt: from observations in 1839 / By George H. Wathen.

  • Wathen, George Henry.
Date:
1843
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Credit: Arts, antiquities, and chronology of ancient Egypt: from observations in 1839 / By George H. Wathen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. PRELIMINARY CHAPTER. ON THE GENEALOGICAL CHARACTER OF THE ROYAL OVALS. Page Hieroglyphic names and stand- ards indicate descent, alliance and dominion 1 Conclusions thus obtained - 2 Confirmed by the royal portraits 5 Names of the Ptolemies - - 6 Families of Pharaohs - - 8 Nitocris and Amun-neitgori - 10 Amenof HI. - - - -12 Eighteen Ethiopian kings men- tioned by Herodotus - - 14 Ramses the great — his ancestry ib. The second ovals; arms of alliance 15 Page Possible origin of the name Sesos- tris 16 Shishak—his name and ovals explain some statements in Scripture 17 Standards — indicative of domi- nion 18 Analogies to the blazonry of ARMS - - - - 20 Heraldry perhaps derived from Egypt - - - - ib. Connexion between the Freema- sons and the Knights Templars 21 Masonic MS. copied by Leland 23 PART I. CHRONOLOGY OF ANCIENT EGYPT. I. Authorities - - - 28 The Old Chronicle - - - 31 II. Manetho Eighteenth and nineteenth Dy- nasties - - - - 34 The Shepherd Dynasty - - 35 The Exodus - - - - 36 The last twelve Dynasties - 39 First sixteen Dynasties - - 40 III. Old Chronicle - - 41 Has been corrupted by copyists 43 IV. Restoration of Old Chron- icle 44 V. Real age of the pyramids Chasm in Old Chronicle caused by erasure of Cheops’s Dynasty 47 The Sothiacal period - - ib. Chimerical speculations - - 49 Arguments for high antiquity of pyramids answered - - 53 Chasm between Shishak and So 61 State of Egypt on the accession of Cheops - - - - 64 Summary of the argument - 65 Evidence from names and usages 66 VI. The pyramids built with THE SPOILS OF THE TEMPLE 69 VII. Tables of Dynasties - 70 General table of Dynasties - 73 Proofs of its authenticity - 74 Harmony with Hebrew chrono- logy 75 Seventeenth Dynasty of Manetho 77 Eighteenth Dynasty - - 78