. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . p. 65-73 ; and that of Maspero, in the Revue Critique, 1892, vol. iLpp. 357-366. THE PYRAMIDS OF SAQQaRA. 435 princes in the mountain opposite Papi IT. had ample leisure to avengethe death of his vassal and to send fresh expfditious to Tritît, among the Amamît andeven beyond, if, indeed, as the author ofthe chronological Canon of Turin asserts,2he really reigned for more than ninetyyears ; but the monuments are almostsilent with regard to him, and give usno information about his possible exploitsin Nubia. An inscription of his secondyear
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . p. 65-73 ; and that of Maspero, in the Revue Critique, 1892, vol. iLpp. 357-366. THE PYRAMIDS OF SAQQaRA. 435 princes in the mountain opposite Papi IT. had ample leisure to avengethe death of his vassal and to send fresh expfditious to Tritît, among the Amamît andeven beyond, if, indeed, as the author ofthe chronological Canon of Turin asserts,2he really reigned for more than ninetyyears ; but the monuments are almostsilent with regard to him, and give usno information about his possible exploitsin Nubia. An inscription of his secondyear proves that he continued to workthe Sinaitic mines, and that he protectedthem from the On the otherhand, the number and beauty of thetombs in which mention is made ofhim, bear witness to the fact that Egyptenjoyed continued Kecentdiscoveries have done much to surroundthis king and his immediate predecessors with an air of reality which is lackingin many of the later Pharaohs. Their pyramids, whose familiar designations. HEAD OF THE MUMMY OF METESOTJPHIS 1* 1 Inscription from the tomb of Papiuakhiti, discovered in 1892-93, and communicated by 3 Lepsius, Auswahl, pi. iv. col. vi. fragm. 59. The fragments of Manetho (Ungers edition,pp. 102, 10G) and the Canon of Eratosthenes (Fragm. Chronol., edited by C. Muller, p. 183) agree inassigning to him a reign of a hundred years—a fact which seems to indicate that the missing unit inthe Turin list was nine: Papi II. would have thus died in the hundredth year of his reign. A reignof a hundred years is impossible : Mihtimsaûf I. having reigned fourteen years, it would be necessaryto assume that Papi II., son of Papi I., should have lived a hundred and fourteen years at the least,even on the supposition that lie was a posthumous child. The simplest solutionis to suppose (1)that Papi II. lived a hundred years, as Kamses II. did in later times, and that the years of his lifewere confounded with the yea
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