. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . entattempts at arranging them in order being that made by Pétrie (A Season in Egypt, pp. 16-19, andA Eistory of Egypt, vol. i. pp. 126-144. Steindorff believes that some of them are to be transferredto the XIIIth dynasty (Die Konige Mentuhotep und Antef in the Zeitschrift, vol. xxxiii., pp. 77-96). 8 The Icings forming the XIIth dynasty had been placed in the XVI by Champollion and the firstEgyptologists. During the last months of his life Champollion recognized his mistake, and identified AMENEMHÂÎT I.: THE ACCESSION OF TEE XII™ DYNASTY. 463 th
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . entattempts at arranging them in order being that made by Pétrie (A Season in Egypt, pp. 16-19, andA Eistory of Egypt, vol. i. pp. 126-144. Steindorff believes that some of them are to be transferredto the XIIIth dynasty (Die Konige Mentuhotep und Antef in the Zeitschrift, vol. xxxiii., pp. 77-96). 8 The Icings forming the XIIth dynasty had been placed in the XVI by Champollion and the firstEgyptologists. During the last months of his life Champollion recognized his mistake, and identified AMENEMHÂÎT I.: THE ACCESSION OF TEE XII™ DYNASTY. 463 the Theban race ; whether he had any claim to the throne, or by what meanshe had secured the stability of his rule, we do not Whether he hadusurped the crown or whether he had inherited it legitimately, he showedhimself worthy of the rank to which fortune had raised him, and the nobilitysaw in him a new incarnation of that type of kingship long known to themby tradition only, namely, that of a Pharaoh convinced of his own divinity and. THE PHARAOH MONTHOTPÛ RECEIVING THE HOMAGE OF HIS SUCCESSOR—ANTÛF—IN THE SHAT ER-RIGÂ determined to assert it. He inspected the valley from one end to another,principality by principality, norae by nome, crushing crime, and arisinglike Tûmû himself ; restoring that which he found in ruins, settling thebounds of the towns, and establishing for each its frontiers. The civilwars had disorganized everything ; no one knew what ground belonged to thedifferent nomes, what taxes were due from them, nor how questions of irrigationcould be equitably decided. Amenemhâît set up again the boundary stelae,and restored its dependencies to each nome : He divided the waters among Amenemhâît with the Amenemes of Manetho ; but his discovery lay buried among his papers, and itwas Lepsius who, in 1840, had the honour of correcting the mistake of his predecessors (Aunwahl dertrichtigsten Urkunden, Uebersicht der Tafcln, and Ueber die 12 JEg
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