(31) Eusebios, bishop of Cæsarea, published in a.d. 326 his Chronicle, containing a list of Manetho's dynasties. The work has been preserved in an Armenian translation.
(32) Horapollo of Nilopolis, grammarian, a.d. 390, wrote a work on the hieroglyphics in Coptic, which was translated into Greek by Philippos. Only the ideographic values of the characters are given, but they are mostly correct.
Appendix IV. Archæological Excursions In The Delta.
(1) Tel el-Yehudîyeh or Onion.—Take the train from Cairo at 10 a.m., reaching Shibîn el-Qanâter at 12.25. Leave Shibîn el-Qanâter at 5.57 p.m., reaching Cairo at 6.50. Donkeys can be procured at Shibîn, but it is a pleasant walk of a mile and a half through the fields (towards the south-east) to the Tel. There is a café at Shibîn adjoining the station, but it is advisable to take lunch from Cairo.
(2) Kôm el-Atrib or Athribis.—The mounds lie close to the station of Benha el-´Asal, north-east of the town, and can easily be explored between two trains. All trains between Cairo and Alexandria stop at Benha.
(3) Naukratis.—The mounds of Naukratis (Kôm Qa´if) lie nearly five miles due west of the station of Teh el-Barûd on the line between Cairo and Alexandria, where all trains stop except the express. The first half of the walk is along a good road under an avenue of trees, but after a village is reached it leads through fields. Donkeys are not always to be had at Teh el-Barûd. The low mounds west of the station are not earlier than the Roman period.
(4) Kanôpos or Aboukir.—A train leaves the Ramleh station at Alexandria at 7.40 a.m., and reaches Aboukir at 10.42 a.m., returning from Aboukir at 4.42 p.m. It is a short walk northwards from the station to the temple of Zephyrion discovered by Daninos Pasha in 1891. Then [pg 332] walk eastward along the shore, where the rocks have been cut into baths and numerous relics of antiquity lie half-covered by the waves.
(5) The Monument of Darius, near Suez.—A ride of rather more than five miles through the desert north of Suez along the line of the Freshwater Canal brings us to the fragments of one of the granite stelæ erected by Darius to commemorate his re-opening of the Canal between the Red Sea and the Nile. Traces of the cuneiform and hieroglyphic inscriptions can still be detected upon some of them. The stelæ were erected at certain intervals along the line of the Canal, and the remains of three others of them have been found, on a mound one kilometre south of Tel el-Maskhûtah or Pithom, a little to the east of the station of the Serapeum on the Suez Canal, and on the side of a mound between the 61st kilometre of the Canal and the telegraphic station of Kabret. From Ismailîyeh to Tel el-Maskhûtah is a ride across the desert of eleven miles.