Volume 1

A history of the pharaohs ... / by Arthur Weigall.

Arthur Weigall

Date:: [1925-]

Credit: A history of the pharaohs ... / by Arthur Weigall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Athothis. On the Cairo fragment of the Annals this king's mother is called “ the concubine, Hept,” and as rC Hawk of Hieraconpolis he took the appropriate name jjjjj* Khenti, “ He of the harim,” a name usually incorrectly tran¬ scribed Zer. (The sign is probably an old form of Khenti, a stockade or enclosure : see p. 7.) Beside this Hawk-name we get the nameo ( [Royal Tombs II, xv, 109), which was his name as Hawk of Thinis, and which appears on the Abydos List as ^ * On the Cairo fragment of the Annals this name appears as ( ^ ; but in the Turin Papyrus it is written Thuth. The name of the god Thoth is sometimes written simply ( ; and therefore I think o ( , ^ ( and [ are all readings of and the name was probably Athuthi; from which Manetho rightly derived his Athothis (A-thoth-i-s), this being also the king’s Nebti name. In certain African tribes at the present day there are “ learned men ” who recite by heart the lists of names of dead rulers ; and I suppose the names of Egyptian kings were likewise handed down orally, as well as in writing. Hence it is more reasonable to suppose that Manetho’s rendering of the names is generally correct than it is to regard him as being in error whenever there is a difficulty. This king was not recognized by the Sakkara List. He was afterwards identified with Osiris (page 111) under the name Khenti- Imenti, “ Khenti in the Western Necropolis.” The name -<H>- r\ r\ of Osiris is sometimes written J H Osiris-Athuthi (?). His tomb was reverenced as the Tomb of Osiris. Kenkenes. As Hawk of Hieraconpolis this king took the name Ct^, generally read Thet or Zet. But on the ivory plaque of Menes this same sign is written in the “ Vulture and Cobra ” title in place of j^, which suggests.$

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