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An account of some recent discoveries in hieroglyphical literature, and Egyptian antiquities : $b including the author's original alphabet, as extended by Mr. Champollion, with a translation of five unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscriptsYoung, Thomas

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An account of some recent discoveries in hieroglyphical literature, and Egyptian antiquities : $b including the author's original alphabet, as extended by Mr. Champollion, with a translation of five unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscripts

Name: An account of some recent discoveries in hieroglyphical literature, and Egyptian antiquities : $b including the author's original alphabet, as extended by Mr. Champollion, with a translation of five unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscripts
Author: Young, Thomas

Young, Thomas

Egyptian language -- Writing, Hieroglyphic

21  Cleopatra Tryphaena and Berenice; 1 year.
            57 Nov.   7  Berenice; 2 years with Cybiosactes and Archelaus.
            55 May    2  Auletes had been re-established.
            52 Nov.  12  Cleopatra with the elder Ptolemy; 4 years.
            48 June  29  Battle of Pharsalia.
            47 Feb.   6  Alexandria taken by Caesar; death of Ptolemy.
            47 Oct.  18  Cleopatra with the younger Ptolemy.
            44 Oct.  15  Cleopatra alone; 14 years.
            31 Sept.  2  Battle of Actium.
               Oct.  21  Last year of Cleopatra begins.
            30 Aug.   1  Alexandria taken by Augustus: end of the Lagidae.

Mr. St. Martin being the latest chronologist, that has examined these
dates, I have thought it right to insert his table, which I suppose to
be correct in the principal part of its foundation, although I cannot
readily believe that he is right in attributing to the Ptolemies the
observance of the Macedonian year rather than of the Egyptian. He says
that in Egypt, as all the world knows, the years of the sovereigns were
reckoned from the first day of the year, in which they took the reins
of government: meaning by this the first day of the Macedonian year:
it appears, however, unquestionable from almost every inscription and
manuscript found in Egypt, which exhibits a date, that the Egyptian
months and years were employed almost exclusively in that country.
It happens, however, that about the time in question, the beginning
of these years did not vary very exorbitantly from each other: the
Egyptian year having begun in September, October, November or December:
and the Macedonian, according to Mr. St. Martin, in October or
November.


v. _Genealogy of the Ptolemies, from Champollion Figeac I, p. 231._

 _Reigns._   _Names and    _Reigned._ _Death._     _Wives._     _Children._
           Descriptions._

  I.      SOTER. Son of   39y. 5m.   Natural.    1.
          Lagos and                              2.              [Arsinoe.]
          Arsinoe, first                         3. Eurydice, d. Ceraunus:
          governor, then                         of Antipater.   seized the
          King.                                                  crown of
                                                                 Macedonia.
                                                 4. Berenice     Philadelphus:
                                                 died old.       succeeded
                                                                 him.

  II.     PHILADELPHUS.   37y. 11m.  Natural.    1. Arsinoe      Evergetes.
          Son of Soter                           d. of Lysimachus,
          and Berenice.                          and
                                                 of his sister.
                                                 2. Arsinoe,     None.
                                                 her mother.

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An account of some recent discoveries in hieroglyphical literature, and Egyptian antiquities : $b including the author's original alphabet, as extended by Mr. Champollion, with a translation of five unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscripts

Young, Thomas

Egyptian language -- Writing, Hieroglyphic

21  Cleopatra Tryphaena and Berenice; 1 year.
            57 Nov.   7  Berenice; 2 years with Cybiosactes and Archelaus.
            55 May    2  Auletes had been re-established.
            52 Nov.  12  Cleopatra with the elder Ptolemy; 4 years.
            48 June  29  Battle of Pharsalia.
            47 Feb.   6  Alexandria taken by Caesar; death of Ptolemy.
            47 Oct.  18  Cleopatra with the younger Ptolemy.
            44 Oct.  15  Cleopatra alone; 14 years.
            31 Sept.  2  Battle of Actium.
               Oct.  21  Last year of Cleopatra begins.
            30 Aug.   1  Alexandria taken by Augustus: end of the Lagidae.

Mr. St. Martin being the latest chronologist, that has examined these
dates, I have thought it right to insert his table, which I suppose to
be correct in the principal part of its foundation, although I cannot
readily believe that he is right in attributing to the Ptolemies the
observance of the Macedonian year rather than of the Egyptian. He says
that in Egypt, as all the world knows, the years of the sovereigns were
reckoned from the first day of the year, in which they took the reins
of government: meaning by this the first day of the Macedonian year:
it appears, however, unquestionable from almost every inscription and
manuscript found in Egypt, which exhibits a date, that the Egyptian
months and years were employed almost exclusively in that country.
It happens, however, that about the time in question, the beginning
of these years did not vary very exorbitantly from each other: the
Egyptian year having begun in September, October, November or December:
and the Macedonian, according to Mr. St. Martin, in October or
November.


v. _Genealogy of the Ptolemies, from Champollion Figeac I, p. 231._

 _Reigns._   _Names and    _Reigned._ _Death._     _Wives._     _Children._
           Descriptions._

  I.      SOTER. Son of   39y. 5m.   Natural.    1.
          Lagos and                              2.              [Arsinoe.]
          Arsinoe, first                         3. Eurydice, d. Ceraunus:
          governor, then                         of Antipater.   seized the
          King.                                                  crown of
                                                                 Macedonia.
                                                 4. Berenice     Philadelphus:
                                                 died old.       succeeded
                                                                 him.

  II.     PHILADELPHUS.   37y. 11m.  Natural.    1. Arsinoe      Evergetes.
          Son of Soter                           d. of Lysimachus,
          and Berenice.                          and
                                                 of his sister.
                                                 2. Arsinoe,     None.
                                                 her mother.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

An account of some recent discoveries in hieroglyphical literature, and Egyptian antiquities : $b including the author's original alphabet, as extended by Mr. Champollion, with a translation of five unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscripts

An account of some recent discoveries in hieroglyphical literature, and Egyptian antiquities : $b including the author's original alphabet, as extended by Mr. Champollion, with a translation of five unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscripts

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