. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . certain Pharaohs are addedor suppressed without appreciable reason. Where Manetho inscribes Kenkenesand Ouenephes, the tables ofthe time of Seti I. give us Atiand Ata; Manetho reckonsninekings to their11 dynasty,while they register only monuments, indeed,show us that Egypt in thepast obeyed princes whomher annalists were unable toclassify: for instance, theyassociate with Sondi a Pir-senû, who is not mentioned inthe annals. We must, there-fore, take the record of allthis opening period of his-tory for what it is—namely,a system invente
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . certain Pharaohs are addedor suppressed without appreciable reason. Where Manetho inscribes Kenkenesand Ouenephes, the tables ofthe time of Seti I. give us Atiand Ata; Manetho reckonsninekings to their11 dynasty,while they register only monuments, indeed,show us that Egypt in thepast obeyed princes whomher annalists were unable toclassify: for instance, theyassociate with Sondi a Pir-senû, who is not mentioned inthe annals. We must, there-fore, take the record of allthis opening period of his-tory for what it is—namely,a system invented at a muchlater date, by means of variousartifices and combinations—to be partially accepted in de-fault of a better, but withoutaccording to it that exces-sive confidence which it hashitherto received. The twoThinite dynasties, in directdescent from the fabulousMenés, furnish, like thishero himself, only a tissueof romantic tales and mira-culous legends in the placeof history. A double-headed stork, which had appeared in the first year. STELE IN THE FOBM OP A DOOR IN THE TOMU OF SHIRI. 1 The impossibility of reconciling the names of the Greek with those of the Pharaonic lists baabeen admitted by most of the savants who have discussed the matter, viz. Mariette {La Nouvelle TabledAbydos, p. 5, et seq.), E. de Kouge {Recherches sur les monuments, p. 18, et seq.), Lieblein{Recherches sur la Chronologie Égyptienne, p. 12, et seq.), Wiedemann {JEgyptische Geschichte, pp. 162,163, 166, 167, etc.); most of them explain the differences by the supposition that, in many cases,one of the lists gives the cartouche name, and the other the cartouche prenomen of the sameking. * Drawn by Boudier from a photograph by Emil Brugsch-Bey, taken from the stele 1027 iu theGîzeh Museum (Maspero, Guide du Visiteur au MustTe de Boidaq, pp. 31, 32, 213). 238 THE LEGENDARY HISTORY OF EGYPT. of Teti, son of Menés, had foreshadowed to Egypt a long prosperity,1 but afamine under Ouenephes,2 and a t
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