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dos, the chief seat of the Usertesens who sprang from Teta. The first 
Usertesen, who followed the first Amen-em-hat, opened the copper and 
turquoise mines of the Sinaitic peninsula, and his officers left Egyptian 
inscriptions there. 
Ati, who seems to have taken to himself the name of Pepi, married 
the daughter of Khua and Nekebet. Now Nephthys, according to 
tradition, was the mother of Anubis or Anub, the brother of Zobebah. 
Nebtei is not the same word as Nekebet, but they are not dissimilar. 
“Coz begat Anub and Zobebah.” Greek mythology, which touches 
all the world, here comes to our help, presenting Cenopion, king of 
Chios, as the son of Bacchus. This Bacchus or Iacchus is the Egyptian 
god Khons or Chonso, called, with the prefix of the article Pa-chons, 
the n being inserted for the sake of euphony. According to Diodorus 
Siculus, the father of Bacchus was Jupiter Ammon, and according to 
the Egyptians, he was the son of Amen and Maut. Looking for Neph- 
thys or Nebtei, we find that the sister of Khufu, the Cheops of Hero- 
dotus, and the Ziph of the Kenite chronicler (1 Chronicles iv. 16), was 
Ziphah. This name, connected with Zepheth, pitch or naphtha, in 
Semitic, the Egyptians would naturally change to xebtez, as they 
changed the Semitic zahad, gold, to zub. All the ancient lists give two 
Khufus or Souphises, and most Egyptologists make Nef or Noub-Khufu 
the successor of Khufu proper. In the latter I am disposed to see the 
Anub, who was Ziph’s nephew as the son of Ziphah, and thereby to rend 
asunder the scheme of untenable antiquity ascribed to the Egyptian 
dynasties. 
A confirmation of the story of Zobebah is the Phrygian one of 
Cybebe or Cybele, told by Diodorus Siculus. This queen, called the 
daughter of Mzon or Manes, doubtless her grandfather Ammon, in 
mature years fell in love with a youth called at first Atys, afterwards 
Papas, the Ati or Pepi of the monuments. Atys was put to death, and 
in her time of grief she bore a posthumous child. Compare the story 
of the Kenite chronicler (1 Chronicles iv. 9), “ And his mother (Zobe- 
bah) called his name Jabez, saying: ‘ Because I bare him with sorrow.” 
This Jabez, or Yaabetz, is the Aahpeti of the monuments, and .the 
AZgyptus of the Greeks; and, at the same time, the third Amen-em- 
hat. He is also the second Pepi or Apophis who reigned a hundred 
years, and in whose eighth year Joseph was exalted. His son was 
Ahmes, or more properly Mes-ah, his grandson Neb-pehti-ra, and his 
great grandson and successor Har-em-hebi, after whom came the new 
dynasty of the Thothmes-Rameses. 
