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H. adopts the view that Egyptian culture began up the Nile and came down stream ‘gradually’ (ὑπο-); this was inevitable, as he thought the Delta so comparatively recent; it was also supported by the fact that ‘Thebes’ only was mentioned by Homer. He is confirmed by the First Dynasty tombs at Abydos (King and Hall, pp. 59 f.), though the buildings of Thebes belong to the ‘Middle’ and the ‘New Kingdom’.

περίμετρον. This figure, 6, 120 stades, for the ‘circumference’ of the Thebaic nome, was given to H.; it is not the result of his own measurements. But its exact recurrence here and in 9. 2 is suspicious.

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