CHRONOLOGY

OF KINGS, CAESARS, AND PONTIFFS

Who

by the erection of Obelisks procured for themselves eternal

fame among Posterity, extended from Sothis son of Manuphthis

to ALEXANDER VII, Supreme Pontiff.

Although we have set forth such a Chronology as exhaustively as possible from Cham and Mizraim, the first rulers of Egypt after the Flood, down to Innocent X, Supreme Pontiff, in the Pamphilian Obelisk, we have nevertheless deemed it proper to reiterate it in this place, contracted into a certain epitome and extended to the times of ALEXANDER VII, Supreme Pontiff.

	Years after the Flood.	Before Christ.
Sothis, son of Manuphthis, having executed with great spirit the erection of obelisks conceived by his father, erected eight, according to Pliny, at Heliopolis together with his son Ramesses.	1028	1366
Ramesses, son of Sothis, King of Egypt, after the death of his father, erected at Thebes the largest of all the obelisks that had ever been fashioned in Egypt, and this is the one that Constantine Caesar once erected in the Circus Maximus, and later Sixtus V, Supreme Pontiff, having unearthed it, re-erected in the Lateran Field.	1097	1297
Sesostris, a most powerful King of Egypt, erected two obelisks, according to Pliny.	1237	1157
MOMPHENCUR, son of Sesostris, corruptly called Nuncoreus by Pliny, erected a huge but unadorned obelisk, which later Caius Caligula Caesar erected in the Vatican Field, and Sixtus V re-erected in the same place. Momphencur lived in the year	1292	1102
SIMARRES, or SIMENDES, which word in Egyptian denotes a sacred Goat: he erected, according to Pliny, several obelisks in Egypt; but which ones those were, the antiquity of time has begrudged us from knowing. He lived	1331	1064
MARRES & APHRES, Kings of Egypt, erected some obelisks, but unadorned, which later Claudius erected before the Mausoleum of Augustus. These kings lived	1366	1028
PSAMMIRTAO, whom Pliny calls Sennefertaeus, erected one of the greater ones at Heliopolis,