Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller.

  • Karl Otfried Müller
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1852
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    intelligent native, ought to have in preference to oral communications by equivocal intermediate persons to a stranger. Among such records of which Manetho might avail himself, the genealogy of Ramses the Great, given in the tablet of Abydos (most correct in Hierogl. 47) is worthy of notice. At least the order of succession here, Thutmosis, Amenophis, Horus, coincides with Manetho. [Bockh Manetho u. die Hundsternperiode, ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Pharaonen, B. 1845.] 2. The Builders of the Pyramids, Suphis I. (Cheops, Herod.), a de- spiser of the gods, Suphis II. (Chephren), Mencheres (Mykerinos), kings of the fourth dynasty, were thrust down by the priests whom Herodotus heard, from theocratic reasons, into the time of the decline. Comp. Heeren, Ideen 2. s. 198. with Champollion, Lettres h, M. le Due de Bla- cas, ii.; and the latter on the fragments of earlier buildings which are found in the temple and palace of Ammon at Carnac in the ruins of Thebes. 3. The xviii. dynasty according to Champollion: Amnoftep, Thoyt- mus, Amnmai, Thoytmus II., Amnof, Thoytmus III., Amnof II. (Pha- menophis or Memnon), Horus, Ramses I., Ousirei, Manduei, Ramses II. III. IV. (Mei-Amn) Y. The xix.: Amn-mai Ramses VI., Ramses VII., Amnoftep II., Ramses VIII. IX., Amen-me, Ramses X. Champollion's assumptions are opposed in several points to Burton Excerpta Hierogl. Qahira 1828-30 and Wilkinson, Materia Hieroglyphica. Malta 1828 (comp. Bull. d. Inst. 1832. p. 221) ; Rosellini, Monumenti dell' Egitto e della Nubia dis. dalla Spedizione Scientifico-letteraria Toscana in Egitto P. I. Mon. Storici 1832. 33. (comp. G. Gel. Anz. 1833. St. 200.) arranges the succession as follows: xviii.: Amenof I., Thutmes I. II. III., the Queen Amense, Thutmes IV., Amenof II., Thutmes V., Amenof III. (Memnon), Horus, Tmauhmot, Ramses I., Menephtah I., Ramses II. III.'(Amn-mai Ramses or Sesostris), Manephtah II. III., Uerri. The xix. begins: Ram- ses Mai-Amn (also Sethos or ^gyptus—a very uncritical combination). The following are thought to be found on monuments: Manduftep (Smendes XXL), Scheschon, Osorchon, Takelothe (XXII.); Sabaco and Tirraka (XXV, these by Salt), Psemteg (Psammetichus XXXI.), Nai- phroue, Hakr. (Nephereus and Acoris, of the xxix. dynasty in the time of the Persians). 4. The chief supports of this view which has been gained but recently are 1. The Rosetta stone, an address in hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek characters, by the priests assembled at Memphis, to Ptolemy V., (who had caused himself to be inaugurated after the manner of the Pharaohs,) thanking him especially for freeing the priesthood from many burdens. Last explained by Drumann, 1823. Such decrees of praise and thanks were frequent; even the virtues of Nero were extolled in hieroglyphics by the inhabitants of Busiris. 2. The Greek inscriptions on the walls of temples, mostly to this effect, that the Ptolemies and Imperators, or the inhabitants of the country, for the welfare of these rulers (v^Tri^ ccvr^u), dedicate temples or new portions of them to their native gods; they come down as far as the time of the Antonines. Letronne, Recherchea pour servir k I'histoire de I'Egypte pendant la domination des Grecs et des Romains. 1823. 3. The hieroglyphic inscriptions with names of Ptolemies and Roman emperors accompanying representations which