Ramses ii. reigned from
b.c. 1348 to 1281; if the
stela of Sân had been erected in the twenty-eighth year of his
reign, four hundred years would take us back to b.c. 1720. The Syrian wars
were concluded by the treaty with the Hittites in the twenty-first
year of his reign.
This is the length of the reign as
given by Manetho, and with this agree all the dated monuments of
Hor-m-hib, with the exception of a fragment in the British Museum
(Egyptian
Inscriptions, 5624), which has been supposed to refer
to his seventh and twenty-first years. But the king to whom these
dates refer is uncertain, and Dr. Birch may be right in considering
that Amenôphis is meant.
The inscription of Sheri, the prophet
of Send, part of which is in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford and
part at Cairo, makes Per-ab-sen the successor of Send. He will have
corresponded to the Khaires of Manetho.
One of the kings of the seventh
dynasty was Dad-nefer-Ra Dudu-mes, whose name is conjoined with
those of the sixth dynasty kings at El-Kab, and who built at
Gebelên.
According to Dr. Mahler's astronomical
determination. Thothmes counted sixteen years of his sister's reign
as part of his own. Hashepsu was only his half-sister, his mother
being Ast, who was probably not of royal blood. The mother of
Hashepsu was Hashepsu i.