inscribed on the fragments of another
document of the same nature, and we gather from them that Dobu (Edfu),
Hasutonu (Cynopolis), Habonu (Hipponon), Hakau (Memphis) and others were
successively taken and dismantled.[*]

* Palette resembling the preceding one, and with it
deposited in the Gizeh Museum; reproduced by Steindokff, and
by J. de Morgan. The names of the towns were enclosed within
the embattled line which was used later on to designate
foreign countries. The animals which surmount them represent
the gods of Egypt, the king's protectors; and the king
himself, identified with these gods, is making a breach in
the wall with a pick-axe. The names of the towns have not
been satisfactorily identified: Hat-kau, for instance, may
not be Memphis, but it appears that there is no doubt with
regard to Habonu. Cf. Sayce, The Beginnings of the Egyptian
Monarchy in the Proceedings of the Biblical Archaeological
Society, 1898, vol. xx. pp, 99-101.

On this fragment King Den is represented standing over a prostrate chief
of the Bedouin, striking him with his mace. Sondi, who is classed in the
IInd dynasty, received a continuous worship towards the end of the IIIrd
dynasty. But did all those whose names preceded or followed his on the
lists, really exist as he did? and if they existed, to what extent do
the order and the relation assigned to them agree with the actual truth?
The different lists do not contain the same names in the same positions;
certain Pharaohs are added or suppressed without appreciable reason.
Where Manetho inscribes Kenkenes and Ouenephes, the tables of the time
of Seti I. gave us Ati and Ata; Manetho reckons nine kings to the IInd
dynasty, while they register only five.[*]

* The impossibility of reconciling the names of the Greek
with those of the Pharaonic lists has been admitted by most
of the savants who have discussed the matter, viz. Mariette,
E. de Rouge, Lieblein, Wiedemann; 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 same king.

The monuments, indeed, show us that Egypt in the past obeyed princes
whom her annalists were unable to classify: for instance, they associate
with Sondi a Pirsenu, who is not mentioned in the annals. We must,
therefore, take the record of all this