190 THE SHEPHERD KINGS OF EGYPT. 



A link by means of which the somewhat obscure ti^ces of 

 Jehaleleel are referred to him, is found in the name of his eldest 

 son Ziph. Ziph is Typhoeus and Typhon, as geographers have agreed 

 in the case of the region of caves bearing the name in Palestine. 

 As the name of an Egyptian Pharaoh it api^ears little changed in 

 Suphis, while the character of the initial letter is seen in the fact 

 that it may equally be rendered Khufu or Cheops. In Manetho's 

 third dynasty, a Souphis follows Mesochris after Tyreis, being 

 himself followed by Tosertasis, but, in Eratosthenes, Moscheris, a 

 name like Mesochris, comes after Sensaophis, who is preceded by 

 Saophis. These connect at once with Manetho's fourth dynasty, in 

 which, after Soris, we meet with two kings in succession of the name 

 of Suphis. There was one great Pharaoh of the name of Suphis or 

 Cheops, to whom Herodotus and others attributed the erection of the 

 great pyramid. The justice of the tradition has been shown in the 

 discovery of the monarch's name by Colonel Vyse. He is. Ziph, the 

 son of Jehaleleel or Philition, Cepheus son of Belus, Chembes who 

 follows ISTileus. He belongs to the long-haired Shepherd line, and 

 with them his memory was hated, he being, indeed, the personi- 

 fication of the race that opposed the family of Horns, and the Typhon 

 of classical story. Accordingly Suphis is execrated while Mencherea 

 or Manahath is blessed.^^ He fights the Ann, who descended from 

 Onam or Onnos, another Horite, and stands in opposition to the 

 family of Khem or Achumai, the founder of Coptos, with which in 

 my last paper I improperly connected the Cheops of Herodotus. ^'^ 

 Cheops and Chemmis are two very different persons. He also shov/s 

 intimate relationship with the Ashchur line, in being mentioned 

 together with XJsecheres, as at Isbayda near Hermopolis.^ Siouph 

 or Sefi'eh, which appropriately lies in the Saitic name, is a geographi- 

 cal memorial of this monarch. The incense called Kupbi or Gef, 

 which seems to have been partaken of by the dead on their arrival 

 at Ahalu, connects this son of Jehaleleel with the funei^eal ritual 

 that was first composed under his grandfather Achuzam or Assa 

 Tatkera. The Kufa of Palestine, mentioned upon a tomb at 

 Qoorneh, are probably the descendants of Ziph, after their expul- 

 sion from Egypt. ^^ The title Sophi, which has been elaborately 



88 Osburn, i. 324. 



« Leiiormant and Chevalier, Manual of the Ancient History of the East. London, lS6Si. 

 Vol. 1. 205. 

 S8 Kawlinson's Herodotus, App. Bk. il. ch. 8. 33 Kennck's Egypt, ii. 1S6. 



