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Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians, including their private life, government, laws, art, manufactures, religions, and early history; derived from a comparison of the paintings, sculptures, and monuments still existng, with the accounts of ancient authors. Illustrated by drawings of those subjects / By J.G. Wilkinson.

  • Wilkinson, John Gardner, 1797-1875.
Date:
1837
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Credit: Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians, including their private life, government, laws, art, manufactures, religions, and early history; derived from a comparison of the paintings, sculptures, and monuments still existng, with the accounts of ancient authors. Illustrated by drawings of those subjects / By J.G. Wilkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pear to have penetrated, and, consequently, out of the reach of destruction. I am, therefore, of opinion that the irruption of the Pastors was anterior to the erection of any building now extant in Egypt, and long before the accession of the seventeenth dynasty* ; but, until some further light is thrown on the subject, either by the monuments or some equally authentic source, it will be better to commence our history of Egypt with the reign of that monarch whose records exist, and from whom we can establish a regular succes- sion. I shall, however, first introduce the names and order of the sovereigns mentioned by Hero- dotus, Diodorus, Manetho, and Eratosthenes, with a few remarks on the probable origin of the shep- herd kings; and then proceed, in the next chap- ter, to a comparison of the names occurring on the monuments, with the catalogues of the priest of Sebennytus, and other ancient authors. And in order to present a comparative view of the succession from Menes to the invasion of Cam- byses, according to Herodotus and Diodorus, I shall arrange the names given by those historians separately in opposite columns. * The old chronicle gives four Memphites to the seventeenth dynasty, and eight Tanites to the sixteenth, which I have followed in preference to the forty-three of Manetho,