Types of mankind, or, Ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographical, philological and Biblical history / illustrated by selections from the inedited papers of Samuel George Morton and by additional contributions from L. Agassiz, W. Usher, and H.S. Patterson ; by J.C. Nott and Geo. R. Gliddon.

  • Nott, Josiah C. (Josiah Clark), 1804-1873.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Types of mankind, or, Ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographical, philological and Biblical history / illustrated by selections from the inedited papers of Samuel George Morton and by additional contributions from L. Agassiz, W. Usher, and H.S. Patterson ; by J.C. Nott and Geo. R. Gliddon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The liieroglyphical names of some of these kings may be consulted in Bunsen; but we borrow from Lepsius this table of the Xllth dynasty; which cannot become more than slightly modified in his “ Book of Kings.” (475) <( The XIIth Manethonian Dynasty. According to According to the Highest year on Manetho. Turin Papyrus the Monuments. 1. Amenemlie I alone 9 y’rs 9 Am. I [Afr. 16 Bus. 16J 9 y’rs 2. Sesurtesen I and Amenemhe I. 7 “ 8. of Am. and Ses. I. Sesurtesen I alone 35 « ► 46 Ses. I [Afr. 46 Eus.46J 45 “ 44. ofSes.I—2 of Am.II. Sesurtesen I and Amenemhe II 4 ii 1 3. Amenemhe II alone 28 “ 1 4. Sesurtesen II & Amenemhe II. 10 • 38 Am. II [Afr. 38 Eus.38] 3(7) “ 35. Am. 11=3. Ses IL Sesurtesen II alone 28 it 28 Ses. II [Afr. 48 Eus. 48] (2)9 “ 11. - - 6. Sesurtesen III 38 a 38 Ses. Ill [Afr. 8 Eus. 8] 3(7) “ 26. — — 6. Amenemhe III alone 41 « i Amenemhe III & Amenemhe IV 1 “ J 42 Am.IIl [Afr. 8 Eus. 42] 4(1)“ 43. — — 7. Amenemhe IV alone 8 a 8 Am. IV [Afr. 8 9 y’rs 3 m. 27 d. 6. — — 8. Ra-Sebeknefru 4 a 4 Sebek. [Afr. 4 j 3 « 10 « 24 « Total 213 “ 1 “ 24 “ 9 The Xllth dynasty ends, according to Lepsius, about b. c. 2124. What relics are extant of Xlth dynasty belong to the Enuantefs, (47G) including perhaps Ra-nub-Cbeper, discovered lately by Mr. Harris. Little can here be related about the Xth, IXth, VUIth, and Vllth dynasties, to be intel- ligible without a lengthy argument; but the duration of this last is felicitously suggested by Maury. (477) Solid as a rock, however, is the Vlth dynasty; (478) so is the Vth on the Turin Papyrus and through the recovery of all its kings (but one?) from the tombs opened by the Prussian Commission at Memphis. (479) Of the IVth the vestiges surpass belief, to persons who have not opened the folio plates of Lepsius’s Dcnkmulcr; wherein the petroglyphs of these three dynasties, earliest and grandest relics of antique humanity, are now preserved for posterity, so long as the pyramids of Geezch shall endure. With the Hid dynasty Egyptian monuments cease. There is nothing extant of the lid, nor coeval with the 1st dynasty. Their existence is deduced from the high state of the arts, and the extensive knowledge possessed by the denizens of the Kile, as demonstrated by the pyramids, sepulchres, and hieroglyphed records, of the IVth dynasty, compared with the frag- mentary catalogues of Manetho and Eratosthenes, and supported by Graeco-Roman tradition. MENES — Egj’pt’s first Pharaoh—is recorded, in hieroglyphics carved, during the 14th century b. c. at the Theban Ramesium, by Ramses II. as his earliest ancestor; and, in hieratic, on the Turin Papyrus, a document written in the twelfth—fourteenth century b. c., “king MeNat, of a firm life,” is twice chronicled. (480) By Lepsius, whose computations we adopt, Menes is estimated to have founded the 1st dynasty of Thinites about the year b. c. 3893. “ There is nothing incredible in such an antiquity of the Egyptian monarchy.”(481) Indeed, long before liieroglyphical discoveries had demonstrated its natural adaptation to all the circumstances of Egypt (when due allowance is made for pre-Mmaic chiliads of years for alluvial existence), the reseai’ches of mathematicians had pointed to similar results. “On supputing the 11340 years of Herodotus, taken for the Egyptian seasons of three months, we should have 2794 solar years, according to Freret, and 2835 years, according (475) Ueber die Zwdlfte JEgyptische Kijnigsdynastie; 1853; p. 28. (476) Leemans: Lcttre d Salvolini: 1838; No. 22; — and Lcttre d M. De TVitte: Rev. Arched., 1848, pp. 718- 720; — Breen, in Otia Mgyptiaca; pp. 80, 81; and Tablet of Ramses II.; p. 18. (477) Chronologic des Dynasties f'gyptiennes: Rev. Archeol., 1851; pp. 166, 167. (478) Bunsen: JEgyptcns Stelle: ii. p. 191, seq.; — Marif.tte: Fragment du Papyrus Royal de Turin et la Vie Dynastie de Manethon; Rev. Arch6ol., 1849; pp. 306-315;—IIincks : Trans. R. Soc. Lit., Mar. 12, 1846; p. 137, and “Observations in Wilkinson’s Papyrus; pp. 53, 54. (479) Gliddox: Otia; p. 38. For all details see authorities in the preceding note. (480) Column I., fragment 1, lines 11 and 12; Sir G. Wilkinson’s copy. (481) Keneick: Op. cit.; p. 110.