. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . bore the prcnomcn of Dadûfri ( Sou2)his II. de Manélhon, in the Becueil de Travaux, vol. i. ,139). Khnûmû-Khûfûi signifies the god Khnûmû protects me (Max Muller, Bemerhungtiber einige Konigsnamen, in the Recueil, vol. ix. p. 176). 1 Kheops is the usual form, borrowed from the account of Herodotus (ii. 124); Diodorus writesKhembes or Khemmes (i. 63), Eratosthenes Saôphis, and Manetho Souphis (Ungers edition, pp. 90, 93). 2 The story in the Westcar papyrus speaks of Snofrûi as father of Khûfûi (Erman, Die Mdrchen desPapyrus Westcar, pl.

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. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . bore the prcnomcn of Dadûfri ( Sou2)his II. de Manélhon, in the Becueil de Travaux, vol. i. ,139). Khnûmû-Khûfûi signifies the god Khnûmû protects me (Max Muller, Bemerhungtiber einige Konigsnamen, in the Recueil, vol. ix. p. 176). 1 Kheops is the usual form, borrowed from the account of Herodotus (ii. 124); Diodorus writesKhembes or Khemmes (i. 63), Eratosthenes Saôphis, and Manetho Souphis (Ungers edition, pp. 90, 93). 2 The story in the Westcar papyrus speaks of Snofrûi as father of Khûfûi (Erman, Die Mdrchen desPapyrus Westcar, pl. iv. , pl. vi. ) ; but this is a title of honour, and proves nothing. The few re-cords which we have of this period give one, however, the impression that Kheops was the son of Snofrûi,and, in spite of the hesitation of de Rouge {Recherches sur les monuments, pp. 37, 38), this affiliationis adopted by the majority of modern historians (Ed. Meyer, Geschichte des Allen Mgyptens, p. 104). 3 This is the figure furnished by the f

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