5. Pharaoh Hophra, the ally of Zedekiah. Said to be Pharaoh Apries, who was strangled, B.C. 569-525 (Jer. xliv. 30).
*** Bunsen’s solution of the Egyptian dynasties cannot possibly be correct.
Pharaohs noted in romance:
1. Cheops, or Suphis I., who built the great pyramid (dynasty iv.).
2. Cephrenês, or Suphis II., his brother, who built the second pyramid.
3. Mencherês, his successor, who built the most beautiful, though not the largest, of the pyramids.
4. Memnon, or A-menophis III., whose musical statue is so celebrated (dynasty xviii.).
5. Sethos I. the Great, whose tomb was discovered by Belzoni (dynasty xix.).
6. Sethos II., called “Proteus,” who detained Helen and Paris in Egypt (dynasty xix.).
7. Phuōris or Thuōris, who sent aid to Priam in the siege of Troy.