[46]. Syncellus, p. 69; Euseb. Chron. p. 98.
[47]. ‘Hawara, Biahmun, and Arsinoe’ by W. M. Flinders Petrie, 1889.
[48]. ‘Kahun, Garob, and Hawara,’ by W. M. Flinders Petrie, 1890.
[49]. ‘Illahun, Kahun, and Gurob,’ by W. M. Flinders Petrie, 1891.
[50]. Ibid.
[51]. The researches of Mr. Petrie at Kahun have shown that originally this form of column was in wood, which would account for the base on which, in Egyptian work, it is always placed.
[52]. In a tomb of the 4th dynasty found at Sakkara is a wall decoration in which the lotus column is used in a frieze, examples of it being carved in low relief to separate the figures in a procession (see plate 10, ‘Voyage dans la Haute Égypte,’ by F. A. F. Mariette. Cairo, 1878). The polygonal or Proto-Doric column has also been found as a hieroglyph in an inscription of the 4th dynasty. This carries back the date of the two columns to a period some twelve centuries prior to the example at Beni-Hasan.
[53]. ‘Revue Archæologique,’ vol. iii., 1861, p. 97, and v., 1862, p. 297.
[54]. 518 years: ‘Josephus contra Apion.,’ I. 26.
[55]. Layard, ‘Nineveh and Babylon,’ 281.