APPROXIMATE DATING OF EGYPTIAN DYNASTIES
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DYNASTY
I. b.c. 5500. Monument of Semerkhet in Sinai
IV. ” 4800. ” Khufu ”
VI. ” 4300. ” the Pepys ”
XII. ” 3600. Amen-em-hats and Sen-userts
XV. ” 2500. Hyksos Conquest
” ” Time of Abraham and Joseph
XVIII. ” 1580. Amen hotep and Tahutmes
” 1380. Akhen-aten (Amen-hotep IV), (?) time of Moses
XIX. ” 1328 — 1202. Ramessides
” 1300 — 1234. Ramessu II.
RULERS OF PHARAN AND THE CONVENT OF SINAI
LIST TENTATIVELY ENLARGED FROM CHEIKHO
Bishops of Pharan— Moses. Natyr. Macarius. Photius. Theodor.
Bishops of Sinai— Constantine, 869. Marcus I, 869. Jorius, 1033. John I, 1069. Zacharias, 1103 or 1114. George, 1133 or 1143. Gabriel I, 1146. John II, 1164. Simeon (Archbishop), 1203-53. Euthymius, 1223. Macarius I, 1224. Germanus I, 1228. Theodosius, 1239. Macarius II, 1248. Simeon (? II), 1258. John III, 1265. Arsinius, 1290. Simeon, 1306. Dorotheus, 1324-33. Germanus II, 1333. Marcus II, 1358. Job. Athanasius. Sabbas. Abraham. Gabriel II. Michael. Silvanus. Cyrillus. Solomon. Macarius of Cyprus, 1547. Eugenius, 1565-83. Anastasius, 1583-92. Laurentius, 1572-1617. Joasaph, 1617-58. (Nectarius) Ananias (1667-77), 1658-68. Joannicus I. (1677-1703), 1668-1703. Cosmas, 1705. Athanasius of Bari, 1706-18. Joannicus II of Mytilene, 1718-29. Nicephorus Mortales, 1729-49. Constantius I, 1749-59. Cyrillus II, 1759-90. Dorotheus of Byzantium, 1794-96. Constantius II, 1804-59. Cyrillus III, 1859-67. Callistratus, 1877-85. Porphyrius, 1885.
CHIEF AUTHORITIES
For other works and writers see Alphabetical Index and page referred to.
Breasted, J. H., “Ancient Records of Egypt, 1906.”
“Perigraphe of Holy Mount Sinai, 1817.” (In Greek.)
Petrie, W. M. Flinders, “Researches in Sinai, 1906.”
Weill, Raymond, “La Presqu’île de Sinai, 1908.”
Wilson & Palmer, “Ordnance Survey, 1870-71.”