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A guide to the Egyptian collections in the British Museum

A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL KINGS OF EGYPT.

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PREDYNASTIC PERIOD.

Kings of Lower Egypt.

1. .. .. u.

2 Seka.

3 Khaȧu.

4 Tȧu.

5 Thesh.

6 Neheb.

7 Uatch-nār, or Uatch-ȧnt.

8 Mekha.

9. .. .. a [10 ff. wanting].

DYNASTIC PERIOD.

First Dynasty.

B.C. 4400.

Menȧ (Menes).

Tetȧ.

Ȧteth.

Ȧta.

Semti (Ṭen).

Merpeba (Āt-ȧb).

Ḥu (Smerkha).

Sen (or, Qebḥ).

Second Dynasty.

B.C. 4133.

Neterbaiu, or Betchau, or Besh.

Ḥetep-Sekhemui.

Kakauu.

Baenneter.

Uatchnes.

Perȧbsen.

Senṭ.

Neferka-Rā.

Neferka-Seker.

Ḥetchefa.

Third Dynasty.

B.C. 3966.

Sanekht.

Bebi (Tchatchai).

Nebka-Rā.

Tcheser.

Tetȧ (Ḥen-nekht).

Setches.

Neferka-Rā Ḥuni.

Fourth Dynasty.

B.C. 3733.

Seneferu.

Shaȧru.

Khufu (Cheops).

Ṭeṭf-Rā.

Khāf-Rā (Chephren).

Menkau-Rā (Mykerinos).

Shepseskaf.

Sebekka-Rā.

I-em-ḥetep.

Fifth Dynasty.

B.C. 3566.

Userkaf.

Saḥu-Rā.

Neferȧrika-Rā.

Shepseska-Rā.

Khānefer-Rā.

Useren-Rā Ȧn.

Menkau-Ḥeru.

Ṭeṭka-Rā Ȧssȧ.

Unȧs.

Sixth Dynasty.

B.C. 3330.

Tetȧ.

Userka-Rā Ȧti.

Pepi I.

Meren-Rā I.

Pepi II.

Meren-Rā II.

Eleventh Dynasty.

B.C. 2600.

Ȧntef, the Erpā.

Ȧntef Uaḥ ānkh.

Ȧntef Nekht-neb-ṭep-nefer.

Menthu-ḥetep I.

Menthu-ḥetep II.

Menthu-ḥetep III.

Menthu-ḥetep IV.

Menthu-ḥetep V.

Menthu-ḥetep VI.

Menthu-ḥetep VII.

Twelfth Dynasty.

B.C. 2466.

Ȧmenemḥāt I.

Usertsen I.

Ȧmenemḥāt II.

Usertsen II.

Usertsen III.

Ȧmenemḥāt III.

Ḥer.

Ȧmenemḥāt IV.

Usertsen IV.

Sebek-neferu-Rā.

Eighteenth Dynasty.

Ȧāḥmes I ⎫ B.C. 1600.

Ȧmen-ḥetep I ⎭

Thothmes I ⎫ B.C. 1550.

Thothmes II ⎪

Ḥātshepset ⎪

Thothmes III ⎭

Ȧmen-ḥetep II, B.C. 1500.

Thothmes IV ⎫ B.C. 1450.

Ȧmen-ḥetep III ⎭

Ȧmen-ḥetep IV (or Khu-en-Ȧten) ⎫ B.C. 1400.

Tutānkh-Ȧmen ⎪

Ȧi ⎪

Ḥeruemḥeb ⎭

Nineteenth Dynasty.

Rameses I ⎫ B.C. 1350.

Seti I ⎭

Rameses II, B.C. 1330.

Meren-Ptaḥ.

Ȧmenmeses, B.C. 1250.

Sa-Ptaḥ.

Seti II.

Ȧrsu, the Syrian.

Twentieth Dynasty.

Set-nekht.

Rameses III, B.C. 1200.

Rameses IV.

Rameses V.

Rameses VI.

Rameses VII.

Rameses VIII.

Rameses IX.

Rameses X, B.C. 1133.

Rameses XI.

Rameses XII.

Twenty-first Dynasty.

B.C. 1100.

At Tanis.

Nes-Ba-neb-Ṭeṭṭeṭ.

Pasebkhānut I.

Ȧmen-em-Ȧpt.

Sa-Ȧmen.

Pasebkhānut II.

At Thebes.

Ḥer-Ḥeru.

Paiānkh.

Pai-Netchem I.

Men-kheper-Rā.

Pai-Netchem II.

Twenty-second Dynasty.

B.C. 966.

[Buiu-uaua, the founder.]

Shashanq I (Shishak).

Uasarken I.

Thekeleth I.

Uasarken II.

Shashanq II.

Thekeleth II.

Uasarken III.

Thekeleth III.

Shashanq III.

Pamȧi.

Shashanq IV.

Twenty-third Dynasty.

B.C. 750.

Peṭā-Bast.

Uasarken IV.

Tafnekht I.

Twenty-fourth Dynasty.

B.C. 733.

Bocchoris.

Tafnekht II.

Twenty-fifth Dynasty.

B.C. 700.

Kashta.

Piānkhi.

Shabaka (Sabaco).

Shabataka.

Taharqa (Tirhâḳâh).

Tanuath-Ȧmen.

Twenty-sixth Dynasty.

B.C. 666.

Psemthek I (Psammetichus).

Nekau (Necho).

Psemthek II.

Uaḥȧb-Rā (Ḥophra).

Ȧāḥmes II (Amāsis).

Psemthek III.

Twenty-seventh Dynasty.

B.C. 527.

Cambyses.

Darius I (Hystaspes.)

Xerxes I.

Artaxerxes.

Darius II.

Twenty-eighth Dynasty.

Amyrtaios.

Twenty-ninth Dynasty.

B.C. 399.

Naifaauruṭ.

Haḳer.

Psamut.

Thirtieth Dynasty.

B.C. 378.

Nekht-Ḥeru-ḥebt (Nektanebês).

Tcheḥrȧ (Teôs).

Nekht-nebf (Nektanebos).

Thirty-first Dynasty.

Darius III, B.C. 336.

Macedonians.

B.C. 340.

Alexander the Great.

Philip Arrhidaeus.

Alexander II.

Ptolemies.

B.C. 305-30.

Ptolemy I.

Ptolemy II.

Ptolemy III.

Ptolemy IV.

Ptolemy V.

Ptolemy VI.

Ptolemy VII.

Ptolemy VIII.

Ptolemy IX.

Ptolemy X.

Ptolemy XI.

Ptolemy XII.

Ptolemy XIII. ⎫

Cleopatra. ⎭

Ptolemy XIV.

Ptolemy XV.

Ptolemy XVI.

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