Note 463 — Chapter IV · Egypt
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The Assyrian record gives twenty. Twelve may have been the number of kings in Lower Egypt (Mallet, Prem. Étab. p. 36, quoting Lenormant), or the total number at times (Wiedemann, Hdt. II. 147), or Herodotus may have got the number twelve from the twelve courts of the labyrinth that he erroneously ascribes to this period (Sayce, Hdt. ad loc.).