========================================================================= | | | | | | Years in | | Turin | | | | Manetho | Manetho | Papyrus | Abydos | Saqqarah |Monuments+----+------ | | | | | |Afr.|Euseb. -+-----------+------------+-----------+------------+---------+----+------ 1|Necherophes|Seker-nefer-| |Seker-nefer-| | 28 | | | ka | | ka | | | 2|Tosorthros |…t´efa | |T´efa | | 29 | 3|Tyreïs |T´at´ai |T´at´ai |Bebi | | 7 | 4|Mesochris |Neb-ka |Neb-ka | |Neb-ka-Ra| 17 | 5|Soüphis |T´er |T´er-sa |T´er |T´er | 16 | 6|Tosertasis |T´er-teta |Teta |T´er-teta | | 19 | 7|Aches | | | | | 42 | 8|Sephuris | |Set´es |Ra-neb-ka? | | 30 | 9|Cherpheres |Huni |Ra-nefer-ka|Huni |Huni | 26 | +----+------ NOTE.--T´ is to be pronounced tch or z. Total 214 ========================================================================= Unfortunately we cannot as yet positively identify Necherophes on the tablets and monuments. A new arrangement, and one that has much in its favour, is to connect him with Neb-ka or Neb-ka-Ra (No. 4, in Wiedemann’s table). This would join Seker-nefer-ka with Sesochris (No. 8, IInd Dynasty) with the additional support that “ochris” is plainly the Greek equivalent of “Seker”; and T´efa with Cheneres, although the latter assumption is admittedly the merest guesswork. This brings T´er-sa (or Zeser, as it is more often spelled) opposite Tosorthros. We know that Zeser built the step-pyramid of Saqqarah and Manetho says that Tosorthros “built a house of hewn stones.” He is the most important sovereign of the dynasty. Manetho further credits him with bringing the art of writing to perfection; he is also supposed to have been a physician, and for this reason the divine Æsculapius of the Greeks. From Tosertasis to the end of the dynasty there are differences of opinion in regard to order or identification, and consequently we are still at sea with regard to Tyreïs, Mesochris, and Soüphis. THE PYRAMID DYNASTY [Illustration] [Sidenote: [_ca._ 3766 B.C.]]