Creation's dawn / by "Kish" ; with a preface by A. H. Sayce.

  • Kish, pseud.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Creation's dawn / by "Kish" ; with a preface by A. H. Sayce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    high priest of Heliopolis in the third cen- tury B.C. Only epitomes of his history of the thirty Dynasties are given by Julius x\fricanus (300 a.d.), Eusebius, and George Syncellus (800 a.d). The Monumental Lists are four : 1. The Table of Kings in the Temple of Abydos. 2. The list of the Tomb of Thunury at Sakkara. 3. The Turin Papyrus—a list of Kings, now in a terribly mutilated and fragmentary condition. 4. The list of the Temple of Tahutmes III., at Karnac, which shows hardly any order. All these Lists agree very closely except the last. But the monuments tell us nothing of the first three Dynasties. Now, all these lists—except that of Tahutmes III. — come from one period, the reigns of Sety I. and his son, Ramesus II. The Tomb of Thunury is but an excerpt of the List of Abydos, The Turin Payprus is only another edition of the same age. Manetho’s work was doubtless compiled from Papyri no older than this (more than 1000 years before him) and probably much more near his time. The result indicates to us that it was Sety I. who
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